Panduit FZ8RP5NLSQNM008 QuickNet OM4 Harness Cable Assembly

The Panduit FZ8RP5NLSQNM008 delivers pre-terminated MPO-to-LC fiber connectivity for 40/100G datacenter and campus backbone deployments. This 8-meter OM4 harness assembly features a 4-to-1 breakout architecture with MPO-8 female connector transitioning to four LC duplex connectors via 60cm equal-length legs. Plenum-rated OFNP jacket qualifies the assembly for air-handling spaces without conduit, and aqua color-coding ensures instant OM4 identification on crowded patch panels. Standard insertion loss specification supports reliable 40GBASE-SR4 and 100GBASE-SR4 transmission over the full 8-meter run, giving you the margin needed when deploying Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or Mellanox 40/100G optics in spine-leaf or storage-fabric architectures.

Key Features

• OM4 50-micron multimode fiber supports 100m 100GBASE-SR4 or 150m 40GBASE-SR4 reach per IEEE 802.3ba
• MPO-8 female to 4× LC duplex breakout eliminates field termination labor and polarity mapping errors
• Plenum (OFNP) flame rating meets NEC Article 770.179(A) for unrestricted installation in air-handling spaces
• 60cm equal-length breakout legs simplify cable management in tight patch-panel zones and 19-inch racks
• 8-meter overall length covers typical datacenter row-to-row or floor-to-floor vertical riser runs
• Standard insertion loss per TIA-568-C.3 ensures link budget margin for 40/100G parallel optics

Datacenter migrations to 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet expose two recurring field problems: the labor cost of terminating breakout fiber runs, and polarity mistakes that force expensive re-pulls or require costly MPO polarity-conversion modules. The FZ8RP5NLSQNM008 solves both by moving termination and testing to the factory. Each MPO and LC connector arrives inspected and tested to TIA-604-5 (FOCIS-5) and TIA-604-10 (FOCIS-10) geometry specifications, eliminating the variability and rework common with hand-polished field connectors. The 4-to-1 breakout fan-out—one 8-fiber MPO trunk splitting to four LC duplex pairs—maps directly to the physical lane structure of QSFP+ and QSFP28 parallel optics, so transmit and receive polarity is locked in at the factory and documented in the included test report. Installers pull a single trunk cable through vertical J-hooks, overhead ladder rack, or raised-floor grommets, then dress four short LC legs to the patch panel without wrestling eight individual duplex cables through congested pathways. The 60cm breakout length keeps the transition compact enough for standard 19-inch relay racks and two-post telco frames while providing enough working slack for proper strain relief, service loops, and future re-patching when you migrate to next-generation optics.

OM4 laser-optimized 50-micron multimode fiber supports 100-meter 100GBASE-SR4 reach or 150-meter 40GBASE-SR4 reach per IEEE 802.3ba and 802.3bm, which covers the vast majority of intra-building datacenter links—top-of-rack to end-of-row aggregation, leaf to spine, or single-floor vertical riser to main distribution area. The 50-micron core diameter and minimum 4700 MHz·km effective modal bandwidth at 850nm give OM4 a decisive performance margin over legacy OM3 in 100G applications, and the aqua jacket color provides instant visual confirmation during moves, adds, and changes. When you are tracing a suspect fiber path in a cabinet with 200-plus cables under a change-window deadline, that TIA-598-C color-coding is not a convenience—it is a safeguard against accidentally disconnecting a live production SAN or storage-replication link. The assembly's standard insertion loss classification means you can budget typical QSFP28 transceiver power margins without paying the premium for ultra-low-loss elite-grade connectors, keeping your per-port cost under control on large 100G spine-leaf builds or Fibre Channel SAN expansions. For applications requiring even longer reach—200 to 400 meters at 40G or 100G—you would step up to OM5 wideband multimode or singlemode OS2 fiber, but for the typical intra-row and short-riser distances in modern datacenter designs, OM4 delivers the performance you need at a lower installed cost than singlemode infrastructure.

Plenum flame rating under UL 910 (Steiner Tunnel Test) and NFPA 262 allows installation in return-air plenums, suspended-ceiling spaces, HVAC shafts, and above-floor cable trays without metal conduit, innerduct, or fire-stopping enclosures. Most contemporary office buildings and colocation facilities route horizontal and vertical cabling through plenum-rated spaces to avoid the material cost, labor cost, and pathway inflexibility of rigid or flexible conduit systems; deploying a riser-rated (OFNR) or general-purpose (OFNG) cable in those air-handling environments violates NEC Article 770 and will trigger a failed inspection, a stop-work notice, and a costly rip-and-replace remediation. The FZ8RP5NLSQNM008's plenum-rated jacket eliminates that code-compliance risk up front and avoids the change-order expense of retrofitting compliant cable after your low-voltage contractor has already closed walls and ceilings. The cable also conforms to RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU restrictions on lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and brominated flame retardants, satisfying procurement requirements for European Union deployments, LEED-certified green-building projects, and corporate environmental-compliance standards that mandate hazardous-substance reduction across the IT infrastructure supply chain.

Each assembly ships with a serialized factory test report documenting insertion loss and return loss for every fiber pair, giving you a known-good baseline for acceptance testing and a reference point for future troubleshooting. If a link reports bit errors or fails to train at 100G two years into production, you can compare your field OTDR trace against the original factory report and immediately determine whether the problem is connector contamination, a damaged fiber, or a failing transceiver—eliminating the guesswork that leads to swapping expensive optics unnecessarily. The 8-meter overall length is optimized for vertical riser runs between adjacent floors in typical commercial construction (12 to 15 feet floor-to-floor plus slack for patch-panel dressing) and for horizontal runs across wide datacenter hot-aisle or cold-aisle rows, and it is short enough to avoid the coiling waste and clutter you encounter with over-length pre-terminated assemblies that ship in fixed 10-meter or 15-meter increments. QuickNet harness assemblies are packaged ten per carton with individual protective bags and labeling, making them easy to stage, inventory, and deploy across phased buildouts or multi-site rollouts. Whether you are building out a greenfield 100G spine-leaf fabric, upgrading a legacy 10G leaf layer to 40G for virtualization traffic, or installing a low-latency Fibre Channel SAN for an all-flash storage array, the FZ8RP5NLSQNM008 delivers the factory termination quality, installation speed, and code compliance that keep projects on schedule, on budget, and passing inspection the first time.