Panduit FWTYL7575KAM059 12-Fiber OM5 QuickNet Trunk Cable Assembly
The Panduit FWTYL7575KAM059 is a factory-terminated 12-fiber OM5 trunk cable assembly engineered for high-density data center backbone installations requiring support for 40GBASE-SR4, 100GBASE-SR4, and emerging short wavelength division multiplexing (SWDM) protocols. This 59-meter (193.6-foot) QuickNet trunk delivers pre-connectorized reliability at extended reach, eliminating field termination labor while providing the small-diameter profile critical for congested pathway and overhead ladder rack deployments. The lime LSZH jacket meets international flammability standards for enclosed equipment rooms and plenum-equivalent spaces where smoke toxicity is a life-safety concern.
Key Features
- OM5 wideband multimode fiber certified for SWDM transmission—supports four wavelengths (850/880/910/940 nm) over a single fiber pair, enabling 40G/100G over fewer strands than OM3/OM4
- 12-fiber trunk configuration with 50-micron core diameter and laser-optimized modal bandwidth for reach up to 150 meters at 40G and 100 meters at 100GBASE-SR4
- Factory-terminated QuickNet connectors—ships ready to install with no field polishing, reducing deployment time by 70% compared to fusion-spliced trunk assemblies
- Small-diameter construction uses 30–40% less conduit and cable tray space than legacy 62.5-micron designs, critical for high-density spine-leaf architectures
- LSZH (Low Smoke Zero Halogen) flame rating compliant with IEC 60332-1 and IEC 61034—produces minimal smoke and no corrosive halogen gases during combustion, meeting European and international building codes
- Lime jacket color per TIA-568 Annex F for instant OM5 identification during MACs and troubleshooting
- Exceeds TIA-492-AAAD modal bandwidth specifications (4700 MHz·km at 850 nm) and TIA-568-C.3 insertion loss requirements—typical loss ≤0.3 dB per mated pair
- MTP/MPO-style connectors with push-pull boot design—no tools required for connection or disconnection in high-density panels
- RoHS compliant construction with UL and cUL recognition for North American installations
- 59-meter engineered length bridges typical floor-to-floor vertical riser runs or cross-connects distant distribution frames without mid-span splicing
OM5 fiber represents the current generation of laser-optimized multimode cabling, purpose-built to support short-reach 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet in enterprise data centers and telecom central offices. Unlike OM3 (2000 MHz·km) and OM4 (4700 MHz·km at 850 nm only), OM5 extends that 4700 MHz·km bandwidth performance across four distinct wavelength windows between 850 nm and 950 nm. This wideband capability is the foundation for SWDM—a parallel optics alternative that transmits four 25G or 50G channels over a single duplex LC connection rather than requiring eight- or twelve-fiber MTP interfaces. For 40GBASE-SR4 BiDi and emerging 100G BiDi optics, OM5's spectral range eliminates the need to over-provision fiber count; you can migrate from 10G to 100G using the same physical duplex infrastructure. The FWTYL7575KAM059's 12-fiber trunk is ideal for spine switch uplinks in leaf-spine topologies, providing six duplex LC breakouts or a single 12-fiber MTP backbone between aggregation switches and core routers.
The 59-meter length addresses a common data center design challenge—vertical riser runs between floors separated by 12 to 18 feet of slab plus overhead distribution. A typical main distribution frame (MDF) on the ground floor to intermediate distribution frame (IDF) on the third floor requires 50 to 60 meters of cable after accounting for vertical rise, horizontal pathways, service loops at each end, and the mandatory slack storage for future re-termination. Pre-terminated QuickNet trunks arrive with connectors already installed and insertion-loss tested at the factory, eliminating the 90-minute fusion splice cycle and post-splice OTDR verification you'd face with field-installed connectors. In a 12-trunk installation (144 fibers), that's a two-day labor savings—critical when you're racing a tenant move-in deadline or a colocation customer's service turn-up date. The MTP-style connectors use a push-pull boot; you can plug or unplug them in a densely packed panel without a screwdriver or needle-nose pliers, and the physical contact (PC) endface geometry delivers typical insertion loss under 0.3 dB per mated pair—well under the 0.75 dB TIA-568-C.3 channel budget allocation for a permanent link connector.
The cable's small diameter is a make-or-break advantage in retrofit projects and hyperscale builds where every square inch of cable tray cross-section translates to cooling efficiency and code compliance. Traditional OM1 and OM2 cables used 62.5-micron fiber and thicker buffer tubes; the result was a 0.35-inch outer diameter per 12-fiber bundle. OM5's tighter 50-micron core and optimized buffer layer reduce that to roughly 0.23 inches—a 35% reduction in cross-sectional area. In a 4-inch-wide ladder rack with 40% fill ratio per NEC Article 300.22(C), that difference means fitting 18 trunks instead of 12 in the same pathway. The lime LSZH jacket addresses the flammability and toxicity requirements in the 2023 IBC Section 2702 for Group B (data processing) occupancies. LSZH compounds produce less than 0.5% hydrochloric acid when burned, compared to 20–30% from PVC jackets; in a server room fire, that keeps airborne acid concentrations below the threshold that corrodes unprotected copper busbars, battery terminals, and PCB traces in adjacent equipment. The lime color—specified in TIA-568.0-E Annex F as the standard for OM5—gives your techs instant visual confirmation during MAC work; no need to pull a cable, trace it to a panel, and read a label to verify fiber type before plugging in a 100GBASE-SR4 transceiver.
Compliance with TIA-568-C.3 and ISO/IEC 11801 Edition 2.2 ensures this trunk meets the modal bandwidth, chromatic dispersion, and attenuation specifications that transceiver vendors assume when publishing reach tables. The TIA-492-AAAD overfilled launch modal bandwidth of 4700 MHz·km at 850 nm translates to 150 meters of reach for 40GBASE-SR4 and 100 meters for 100GBASE-SR4 per IEEE 802.3-2018 Clause 86—sufficient for intra-building distribution without needing single-mode fiber or active repeaters. The IEC 60793-2-10 Type A1a.3 designation confirms 50-micron core diameter with ±3-micron tolerance and a numerical aperture of 0.200 ±0.015, which matters when you're splicing this trunk to legacy OM4 infrastructure; the mode field diameter mismatch loss stays under 0.1 dB. RoHS compliance (Directive 2011/65/EU as amended by 2015/863/EU) restricts lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants to below 0.1% by weight, meeting the material declaration requirements for GSA federal projects and LEED v4.1 Materials and Resources credits. The UPC barcode (61305636009) ties this assembly to Panduit's factory test records—your commissioning consultant can request the insertion loss and return loss test data for each connector if the project spec requires as-built documentation per TIA-606-C labeling and administration standard.
This trunk cable is the right choice when your design calls for future-capable multimode infrastructure that won't require a forklift upgrade to support 100G leaf switches or when you're building out a greenfield hyperscale pod where 12-fiber spines are the baseline and you need the small-diameter profile to stay within the 40% conduit fill limit in a 2-inch EMT riser. The 59-meter length eliminates the need for mid-span splice enclosures in typical three- to four-story vertical rises, and the factory-terminated connectors cut your installation schedule from two days to four hours for a full rack of distribution switches. The OM5 future-proofs your bandwidth roadmap—when 400GBASE-SR4.2 optics become cost-effective, this same physical trunk supports the upgrade with nothing more than a transceiver swap.
