Designation code for telephone cables, jumper wires and stranded hook-up wires

Construction reference
Basic cable type with additional information
A AB AJ G I outdoor cable outdoor cable with lightning protection requirements outdoor cable with induction protection requirements mining cable installation cable IE installation cable for industrial electronic IE-H installation cable for industrial electronic, halogen-free S switchboard cable T distribution cable YV/Li . . . jumper wires/hook-up wires Styroflex PTFE FEP ETFE

P Y 2Y 02Y 02YS C D F (K) (L) L (L)2Y LD Y Yv Yw Yu

Insulation

dry paper PVC (Polyvinylchloride) PE (Polyethylene) foamed PE (cellular) foam-skin insulation

3Y 5Y 6Y 7Y

Screening

screen of braided copper wires (ms) copper screen, helically stranded filling of cable core with petrol-jelly (St) screen of copper tape with PE-inner sheath (Z) aluminium tape smooth aluminium sheath copolymer coated aluminium moisture barrier sheath corrugated aluminium sheath M Mz W 2Y 2Yv E C

magnetic screen steel tape screen of plastic coated metallic foil high tensile steel wire braiding

Sheath Material

lead sheath lead alloy sheath corrugated steel sheath PE sheath reinforced protective PE sheath compound with embeded plastic tape protective covering of jute and compound

Protective coating

PVC sheath reinforced protective sheath of PVC PVC sheath heat-resistant PVC flame resistant (non-flammable) single core pair (double cores) triple

. . x1x . . x2x . . x3x

Number of stranding elements

. . x 4 x quad . . x 5 x five-core

Conductor diameter in mm Type of stranding components

F S StO St St I St II St III St IV star quad with phantom circuit in railway cables signal core in railway signal cable star quad general star quad with phantom circuit for long distance star quad without phantom circuit star quad like St III, but with increased capacitance unbalances star quad in local (Subscriber) cable star quad for transmission of f = 120 kHz layer stranding concentric unit stranding 2B 0,5 2 layers steel tape, thickness 0,5 mm D layer of copper wires for inductive protection (T) strain bearing of steel wires for aerial cable star quad for transmission of f = 550 kHz St VI star quad for transmission of f = 17 MHz DM Dieselhorst-Martin quad TF carrier frequency star quad P twisted pair PiMF pair in metal foil ViMF quad in metal foil BdiMF unit in metal foil Kx coaxial cable St V

Stranding layout
Lg Bd

A b B 1B 0,3

Armouring wire

layer of Al-wires for inductive protection armouring armouring of steel band for inductive protection 1 layer steel tape, thickness 0,3 mm

T 11