Panduit FWUYL7575KAM087 OM5 24-Fiber PanMPO Trunk Cable Assembly
The Panduit FWUYL7575KAM087 is an 87-meter, 24-fiber OM5 wideband multimode trunk assembly engineered for extended-reach, high-density data center interconnects. Featuring PanMPO female-to-female connectors with Method A polarity, HD Flex transition boot, and Ultra Insertion Loss performance, this QuickNet pre-terminated trunk eliminates field termination while delivering the low-loss, high-bandwidth connectivity required for 40/100/400GbE short-wave applications. The Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) lime jacket meets stringent plenum and riser flammability standards, and the integrated pulling eye simplifies installation through cable trays and pathways in large-scale facilities.
Key Features
- OM5 wideband multimode fiber (850–950 nm) supports 40/100/400GbE SWDM and traditional parallel optics over extended distances
- 24 fibers in PanMPO-to-PanMPO configuration with Method A polarity for straight-through trunk-to-trunk or trunk-to-cassette connections
- Ultra Insertion Loss performance—factory-tested to tighter-than-standard IL specs for maximum link budget headroom
- 87-meter (285.43 ft) length bridges typical row-to-EOR, EOR-to-core, or cross-building data center spans without fusion splicing
- HD Flex Transition on one end enables tight bend-radius management at panel entries and cassette interfaces
- Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) jacket meets IEC 60332-1 and IEC 61034 for plenum, riser, and international data center installations
- Lime jacket provides instant OM5 visual identification per TIA-568 color-coding standards
- Pre-terminated QuickNet assembly with factory IL/RL test report eliminates field termination, polishing, and OTDR certification delays
- Pulling eye on one end simplifies installation through overhead cable trays, preventing jacket damage and connector stress during long pulls
- 50 µm laser-optimized core diameter compatible with VCSEL and short-wave transceivers across 10/25/40/100/400GbE platforms
OM5 fiber extends the reach and bandwidth of traditional OM3/OM4 multimode by adding short-wave division multiplexing (SWDM) capability across the 850–950 nm wavelength window. This trunk's Ultra Insertion Loss performance—typically under 0.35 dB per connector pair versus the industry-standard 0.75 dB maximum—preserves precious link budget in applications where you're chaining multiple trunk segments, running near the 100-meter 100GbE distance limit, or deploying 400GbE SR8 links that demand every tenth of a dB. Method A polarity (key-up to key-down, straight-through) simplifies deployments: connect this trunk directly to another Method A trunk, or pair it with Method A breakout cassettes for duplex LC fanout—no polarity flips, no A-to-B adapters, no guesswork. The PanMPO female push-on connectors are backward-compatible with the broader MPO/MTP ecosystem, latching securely into panels, cassettes, and transceiver modules without tools. Each connector face is factory-inspected and cleaned to IEC 61300-3-35 endface geometry standards, ensuring consistent optical contact and minimal back-reflection across all 24 fibers.
HD Flex Transition on one end provides a reinforced flexible boot that allows the trunk to enter high-density panels or cassettes at sharp angles—critical in blade-server environments or spine-switch installations where panel real estate is tight and every millimeter of bend radius counts. Standard MPO trunks with rigid boots force you into wide-radius service loops that consume vertical rack space and create cable-management nightmares in 42U cabinets already packed with power distribution, horizontal managers, and airflow baffles. The HD Flex boot lets you route the trunk into the panel at 90 degrees, then immediately dress it into horizontal or vertical managers without exceeding the 30 mm minimum bend radius that would otherwise induce macro-bend attenuation. On the opposite end, the integrated pulling eye—a reinforced loop molded into the jacket—gives you a positive attachment point for pull cords or fish tape. Thread your pull line, secure it to the eye, and pull the trunk through J-hooks, cable tray, or innerduct without ever touching the connectors. This prevents the jacket-to-connector stress concentrations that cause pre-term failures in the field, especially on long horizontal runs where friction and weight can exceed 25 pounds of pull tension.
In modern spine-leaf data center architectures, 87 meters is the sweet spot for row-to-end-of-row (EOR) or EOR-to-core switch interconnects in facilities with separated hot/cold aisles, raised floors, or overhead cable tray runs that traverse mechanical spaces or cross fire-rated plenum barriers. Pre-terminated trunks like the FWUYL7575KAM087 eliminate the weeks-long cycle of field fusion splicing, individual connector polishing, and per-channel OTDR certification—plug it in, verify link light with a visual fault locator, done. The 24-fiber count maps to twelve duplex LC ports via breakout cassettes (or six 40GbE QSFP+ / 100GbE QSFP28 parallel-optic ports direct to switch), consolidating what would otherwise require a dozen individual duplex cables into a single trunk that consumes 30–40% less pathway fill and weighs half as much. In a 4-inch cable tray running 200 meters across a data hall, replacing twelve duplex cables with two 24-fiber trunks frees up enough tray capacity to add another spine switch uplink without pulling new pathways—a six-figure savings in raised-floor tile removal, tray installation, and re-certification labor.
LSZH jacketing is mandatory in European data centers per the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) Euroclass and increasingly required in U.S. hyperscale, co-location, and enterprise facilities where smoke toxicity and flame-spread risks override the cost delta between LSZH and PVC. When a fiber trunk burns, PVC releases hydrochloric acid gas that corrodes server hardware, triggers smoke detectors, and creates life-safety hazards in enclosed spaces. LSZH compounds produce 10–20% of the smoke volume and virtually no halogenated acids, meeting IEC 60332-1 vertical flame propagation and IEC 61034 smoke density limits. The lime color-coding provides instant visual confirmation that you're handling OM5—critical in mixed-generation environments where aqua OM3, erika violet OM4, and lime OM5 cables coexist on the same patch panel, and a single mis-patch (plugging OM3 into a 400GbE port expecting OM5 bandwidth) can cost you 75% of your link capacity or trigger a CRC error storm that takes down an entire leaf switch. Installers pulling cable in low-light underfloor spaces or overhead tray runs rely on jacket color to verify they're grabbing the right trunk without stopping to read labels or SKU tags.
This trunk meets TIA-568-C.3 (commercial building fiber optic cabling standards), ISO/IEC 11801 (international structured cabling for customer premises), TIA-492-AAAD (OM5 laser-optimized 50 µm multimode fiber specification), IEC 60793-2-10 type A1a.3 (graded-index 50/125 multimode performance category), TIA-604-5 FOCIS-5 (MPO connector intermateability and performance), and RoHS lead-free construction. Every QuickNet trunk ships with a serialized factory insertion-loss and return-loss test report traceable to NIST-certified reference-grade test equipment—documentation you can hand directly to the customer, commissioning engineer, or third-party verifier without running your own tier-1 certification sweep. Ultra IL performance means you won't sacrifice 1.5 dB of link budget to connector losses before you even account for fiber attenuation, cable bends, or splice losses—essential when your 100GbE SR4 transceiver gives you a 7.0 dB total power budget and you need to bridge 95 meters through three interconnect points and two cassette breakouts. For data center architects deploying extended-reach, high-fiber-count, LSZH-compliant backbone infrastructure where installation speed, pathway efficiency, loss-budget certainty, and five-nines uptime are non-negotiable, the FWUYL7575KAM087 delivers factory-certified performance in a plug-and-play package that eliminates the field-termination variables responsible for 60% of fiber link failures.
