Panduit FWTYL7575KAM038 QuickNet™ 12-Fiber OM5 Trunk Cable Assembly
The Panduit FWTYL7575KAM038 is a factory-terminated 12-fiber OM5 trunk cable assembly engineered for high-density datacenter backbone deployments where space, reach, and installation speed matter. At 38 meters (124.67 ft), this QuickNet™ trunk bridges extended distances across datacenter rows while consuming 30 to 40% less pathway space than conventional assemblies—critical when you're designing for 400G/800G optics in congested overhead trays or underfloor conduit. The lime LSZH jacket provides instant visual identification in multi-cable environments and meets fire-safety requirements for enclosed equipment rooms. Pre-terminated at the factory with Panduit's precision polishing and inspection, this assembly eliminates field splicing labor, reduces deployment risk, and ships ready to validate and deploy.
Key Features
- 12-fiber OM5 wideband multimode trunk optimized for SWDM (shortwave wavelength division multiplexing) and legacy 850nm applications
- 38-meter extended reach spans datacenter hot/cold aisle runs, cross-connects, and intra-building backbone links without mid-span fusion
- 30–40% smaller cable diameter vs. traditional OM3/OM4 trunks—reduces conduit fill, improves airflow in overhead pathways, maximizes usable tray space
- Factory-terminated QuickNet™ design with guaranteed insertion loss and return loss per TIA-568-C.3—ships tested with performance documentation
- Lime LSZH jacket for rapid visual tracing in mixed-fiber environments and compliance with low-smoke/zero-halogen fire codes (IEC 60332-1, IEC 61034)
- 50µm core OM5 fiber supports 100m reach at 100GBASE-SR4, 150m at 40GBASE-SR4, and future 400G/800G SR8/SR4.2 optics on the same infrastructure
- MTP®/MPO-style connectors (confirm pinout/polarity before deployment—Panduit offers Method A, Method B, and universal polarity configurations)
- RoHS compliant with TIA-492-AAAD and IEC 60793-2-10 type A1a.3 fiber performance specifications
- Single-package deployment (no carton bulk)—ideal for retrofit projects, phased build-outs, or ship-to-remote-site installs
OM5 Wideband Multimode and the Datacenter Migration Path
OM5 fiber extends the multimode roadmap beyond OM4's 850nm single-wavelength limit by supporting shortwave wavelength division multiplexing (SWDM) across four lanes (850, 880, 910, 940 nm). This means a single 12-fiber trunk like the FWTYL7575KAM038 can support current 40G/100G SR optics today and scale to 400GBASE-SR4.2 or 800G optics tomorrow without rip-and-replace—you're effectively future-proofing the physical layer while maintaining backward compatibility with existing OM3/OM4 transceivers. The 50µm core diameter and 4700 MHz·km effective modal bandwidth (EMBc) at 850nm deliver the reach and margin you need for typical datacenter distances: 100 meters at 100G SR4, 150 meters at 40G SR4, and emerging IEEE 802.3cm/cd standards for 400G over multimode. Unlike singlemode OS2 (which offers unlimited bandwidth but requires expensive lasers and fusion splicing), OM5 gives you the performance headroom for next-gen speeds at a multimode cost structure. The 12-fiber count in this trunk supports six duplex 100G links, three 40G links with spares, or future breakout to 400G optics—flexibility that matters when your pod architecture evolves or you need to repurpose strands for out-of-band management networks.
QuickNet™ Factory Termination and Deployment Efficiency
Field termination of 12-fiber MPO connectors introduces variables: cleave angle consistency, epoxy cure time, polish geometry (end-face radius, apex offset), and contamination risk during assembly. Panduit's QuickNet™ factory termination process eliminates those variables by polishing and inspecting every connector under controlled cleanroom conditions, then validating insertion loss and return loss on calibrated test equipment before the assembly ships. You receive a trunk that's already been through IEC 61300-3-35 (mating durability), TIA-604-5/FOCIS-5 (MPO connector geometry), and TIA-568-C.3 (channel performance) validation—meaning your on-site acceptance testing is a confirmation check, not a troubleshooting session. The lime LSZH jacket is clearly marked with length, fiber type, and polarity at both ends, so your installation crew can identify the right trunk in a bundle of 40 cables without pulling each one down from the tray. At 38 meters, the FWTYL7575KAM038 is long enough to span a typical 12-rack row (3.5m between racks × 10 racks + vertical rise to overhead) with slack for service loops at each end, but short enough to avoid the coiling/management headaches of 100m+ site spools. The small-diameter construction—achieved through tighter buffer tube packing and optimized strength member design—means this 12-fiber trunk occupies roughly the same cross-section as a legacy 8-fiber OM3 assembly, so you can fit 50–60% more circuits into the same 4-inch cable tray or 1.25-inch conduit. That density gain translates directly to capital savings when you're designing a new build and real estate savings when you're retrofitting an existing pathway that's already at 40% fill.
The FWTYL7575KAM038 meets or exceeds TIA-568-C.3, ISO/IEC 11801 Edition 2.2, and TIA-492-AAAD fiber specifications, ensuring interoperability with any standards-compliant transceiver or breakout module from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or whitebox switch vendors. The LSZH jacket complies with IEC 60332-1 (flame propagation) and IEC 61034 (smoke density), satisfying NEC Article 770 and International Building Code requirements for plenum-equivalent or riser-rated installations without the cost premium of true OFNP plenum cable—verify local AHJ interpretation, but LSZH is widely accepted in raised-floor datacenters and telecommunication spaces where air-handling plenum rules don't apply. This trunk ships as a single packaged unit (package quantity: 1, carton quantity: 0), so you're not paying for bulk packaging waste or dealing with partial-reel logistics—order the exact count you need for a pod deployment, and each trunk arrives individually serialized with test data. For greenfield datacenter builds targeting 100G leaf-spine or 400G spine-core topologies, the FWTYL7575KAM038 delivers the reach, density, and future bandwidth scalability to support your optical infrastructure through multiple switching-generation cycles without re-cabling the horizontal.
