Panduit FWUYL7575LNM025 QuickNet 24-Fiber OM5 Trunk Cable Assembly
The Panduit FWUYL7575LNM025 is a 25-meter (82 ft) pre-terminated 24-fiber OM5 trunk cable assembly engineered for high-density data center deployments requiring 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet backbone connectivity with extended reach. Part of Panduit's QuickNet system, this LSZH-rated trunk delivers 30-40% space savings over conventional trunk designs while supporting shortwave wavelength division multiplexing (SWDM) for future-ready 400G scalability. The lime jacket provides high-visibility circuit identification in congested pathways, and factory termination eliminates field splicing labor while guaranteeing insertion loss performance to TIA-568-C.3 and ISO/IEC 11801 standards.
Key Features
- 24-fiber OM5 wideband multimode trunk supporting 40GBASE-SR4 to 150m and 100GBASE-SR4 to 100m per IEEE 802.3
- 50µm laser-optimized fiber (TIA-492-AAAD / IEC 60793-2-10 A1a.3) with 4700 MHz·km effective modal bandwidth at 850nm
- Pre-terminated QuickNet MPO/MTP connectors for plug-and-play installation, eliminating fusion splicing and field testing delays
- LSZH (Low Smoke Zero Halogen) jacket meeting IEC 60754 for reduced toxicity and corrosion in enclosed data center hot aisles
- Reduced-diameter trunk construction delivers 30-40% cable tray fill savings vs. tight-buffered distribution cable
- 25-meter length optimized for inter-row, end-of-row switch, or spine-leaf tier distances in modular data centers
- Lime outer jacket for instant visual circuit tracing in dense overhead ladder rack or under-floor conduit systems
- Factory tested and certified to <0.35 dB insertion loss per mated pair, <-20 dB return loss
- RoHS compliant construction with sequential fiber numbering for deterministic breakout mapping
OM5 fiber represents the current generation of wideband multimode technology, engineered to support shortwave wavelength division multiplexing (SWDM) transmission across four discrete wavelengths (850nm, 880nm, 910nm, 940nm) on a single fiber pair. This enables 40 Gigabit transmission over a single duplex LC connection or 100 Gigabit over a single fiber using BiDi optics, compared to OM4's requirement for parallel 8-fiber or 20-fiber MPO interfaces at equivalent distances. The FWUYL7575LNM025's 50µm graded-index core is laser-optimized to 4700 MHz·km effective modal bandwidth at 850nm (EMBc), delivering 100GBASE-SR4 reach to 100 meters and 40GBASE-SR4 to 150 meters per IEEE 802.3bm and 802.3ba—a 40% reach advantage over OM4 at 100G speeds. The fiber meets TIA-492-AAAD (OM5) and IEC 60793-2-10 type A1a.3 specifications with <3.0 dB/km attenuation at 850nm and <1.0 dB/km at 1300nm, ensuring headroom for 16 dB to 24 dB aggregate link loss budgets in spine-leaf or storage area network (SAN) fabrics. Each of the 24 fibers is individually color-coded per TIA-598-D and sequentially numbered, enabling deterministic breakout to 12-duplex LC cassettes or fanout to individual simplex connections without field re-identification.
In modular data center environments where cabinet-to-cabinet distances range from 15 to 30 meters and pathway congestion limits available tray fill, this trunk's reduced-diameter design becomes a tangible deployment advantage. Conventional 24-fiber tight-buffered distribution cable occupies approximately 0.85 to 1.1 square inches of cross-sectional area; Panduit's QuickNet trunk construction reduces that footprint to 0.50 to 0.65 square inches—a 30-40% reduction that directly translates to increased airflow in overhead ladder rack installations and reduced conduit fill calculations under NFPA 70 (NEC) Article 770. The LSZH jacket formulation meets IEC 60754-1 (halogen content <0.5%) and IEC 61034 (light transmittance >60%), making it the preferred choice for enclosed hot aisle containment systems, ASHRAE TC 9.9 thermal management zones, and international deployments subject to EU CPR (Construction Products Regulation) Euroclass ratings. The 25-meter length is purposefully spec'd for top-of-rack (ToR) to end-of-row aggregation switch runs in 42U to 48U cabinet rows, spine switch to leaf switch inter-tier connections in two-stage Clos fabrics, or SAN director to storage array trunk links in converged Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) environments. Factory termination with MPO-24 connectors (male or female pinning available, specify at order) ensures <0.35 dB insertion loss per mated connector pair and <-20 dB return loss, tested per TIA-568-C.0 Annex B and shipped with individual test reports traceable to NIST standards. Installation time for a 24-fiber backbone link drops from 4-6 hours (field splicing, testing, documentation) to under 20 minutes (pull, dress, mate, verify link light), a labor cost reduction of $600 to $1,200 per link at typical integration labor rates.
This trunk is certified to TIA-568-C.1 (commercial building generic cabling), TIA-568-C.3 (optical fiber cabling components), TIA-604-5 (FOCIS-5 MPO connector intermateability), and ISO/IEC 11801 (generic cabling for customer premises), ensuring compliance with ANSI/TIA structured cabling standards for insurance, audit, and OEM warranty validation. The lime jacket color provides immediate visual differentiation from aqua OM3, violet OM4, or yellow single-mode trunks in mixed-mode deployments, reducing the risk of mismatched optics insertion—a failure mode that accounts for 22% of fiber link troubleshooting calls per industry field service data. Pair this trunk with Panduit FAP or OPTICOM cassettes for breakout to duplex LC patch cords, or direct-mate to Cisco, Arista, Juniper, or Dell EMC switches equipped with MPO uplink modules for instant 40G/100G fabric activation.
