Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturer

Cable Types We Manufacture: Specs, MOQ and Lead Time

Buyers ask three questions first: what can you build, how little can I order, and how fast can you ship? The table below answers all three. Every row is a cable family that this fiber optic cable manufacturer extrudes in its own plant in Yiwu, Zhejiang. Lead time counts from your deposit, and the clock includes 100% reel testing and packing.

Cable family	Build & fiber	Fiber count	MOQ	Lead time
GYXTW light armored	Loose tube, corrugated steel tape, G.652D / G.657A1	2-24 cores	2 km	7-12 days
GYTA / GYTS duct & aerial	Loose tube, steel or all-dielectric strength member	2-96 cores	2 km	7-15 days
GYTA53 direct burial	Double armor, rated for direct soil install	6-48 cores	2 km	10-15 days
ADSS / mini ASU (GYFFY)	All-dielectric self-supporting, spans to 100 m (draft spec)	4-24 cores	3 km	10-18 days
Figure-8 GYTC8S / GYXTC8Y	Messenger wire, HDPE sheath, aerial spans	2-24 cores	3 km	10-15 days
FTTH drop GJXH / GJYXFCH	Flat 2×3 mm to 2×5 mm, LSZH or PVC	1-4 cores	5 km	5-8 days
Indoor GJFJV	Tight buffer 0.9 / 2.0 / 3.0 mm, simplex to bundle	1-24 cores	2 km	5-8 days
Breakout & indoor armor GJBFJH / GJSFJV	Aramid strength members, steel tape or LSZH options	2-48 cores	1 km	6-10 days

MOQ and lead-time figures are our standard production windows; seasonal peaks around Chinese New Year can add 5-7 days. When your delivery date is fixed, tell us - we confirm the schedule in writing on the proforma invoice.

Every family supports single-mode G.652D and bend-insensitive G.657A1/A2 fiber, and OM1-OM4 multimode on request. Core counts, jacket color, print text and drum length are set per order. Need the cable pre-connectorized? We splice it into factory-terminated patch cords or fit fast connectors before packing, so your crew unrolls and plugs in on day one.

ADSS Span Engineering: The Numbers We Need From You

ADSS fails in the field for one reason: the strength package was sized for a different span. All-dielectric cable carries no metal messenger, so aramid yarn does all the work. The aramid quantity changes with every project. Before we quote a self-supporting build, our engineer asks for five numbers:

• Span length between poles or towers - 50 m urban, 100 m rural, 300 m+ river crossings each get a different aramid package.
• Attachment height on the pole, which sets the sag allowance.
• Ice load in millimeters for your region, if any.
• Wind speed rating for the exposure class.
• Install method - tension stringing or lash, and the best install temperature.

With those numbers we return a drawing that states the rated tensile strength, the sag at your span, and the cable diameter. Your permit office gets the same document. This engineering step costs nothing and takes 2-3 working days - it is the difference between a cable that sags into a tree line and one that runs clean for 20 years.

How to Choose the Right Cable for Your Route

Pick the cable by the route, not by the price list. The same 24-core cable that lives happily in a duct will sag on a 200 m span. This guide matches the install environment to the family we recommend most often:

Installation environment	Recommended family	Why
Duct or pipeline	GYTA	Small diameter, water-blocking jelly, easy pulling
Aerial on poles, short spans	GYTS / GYXTW	Steel strength handles point loads at poles
Aerial long span, no pole attach allowed	ADSS / mini ASU	All-dielectric, installs under live power lines
Aerial with messenger wire preferred	Figure-8 GYTC8S	Integrated messager halves the lashing work
Direct burial, rodent risk	GYTA53	Double armor resists crush and gnawing
Building riser or horizontal runs	GJFJV / GJBFJH	Fire-rated jacket options, tight buffer for easy termination
Final drop to the home	GJXH / GJYXFCH	Flat profile fits corners; crush-resistant drop design

Send us the route survey - span lengths, soil type, temperature range - and our engineer returns a drawing with the strength member sized for your case. This check is free and it runs before the quote, not after the cable hangs.

Construction and Quality: Numbers Behind the Cable

A fiber optic cable manufacturer earns trust with measurable build quality. Here is what goes into a standard outdoor drum from our line:

• Fiber: G.652D attenuation ≤0.36 dB/km at 1310 nm and ≤0.22 dB/km at 1550 nm; G.657A1 bend radius to 7.5 mm for tight FTTH corners.
• Loose tube: PBT tube, water-blocking jelly, fiber overlength 0.3-0.5% so the glass never takes install strain.
• Color code: EIA/TIA-598 fiber sequence, repeated and verified at the printer - your splicers count fibers the same way on every drum.
• Strength and armor: phosphatized steel tape corrugated and bonded; aramid yarn in all-dielectric builds sized to the span.
• Jacket: PE, MDPE or LSZH, nominal 1.6-2.0 mm, with your print text every meter.
• Typical ratings (draft - confirm per drawing): crush resistance 1000 N/100 mm, tensile long-term 300 N to 600 N by family, operating temperature -40°C to +70°C.

Every finished reel passes two tests before it leaves the floor: full-length attenuation scan and OTDR trace at 1310/1550 nm. The printed reports travel with the goods, drum by drum.

Fiber Color Code and Cable Naming, Decoded

Import crews lose hours on confusing labels. Here is the sequence our printers follow, per EIA/TIA-598, so your splicers count fibers the same way on every reel we ship:

Fiber 1-6	Fiber 7-12
Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White	Red, Black, Yellow, Violet, Rose, Aqua

The Chinese cable naming looks dense until someone decodes it. Keep this table - it lets you read any datasheet from any Chinese fiber optic cable manufacturer:

Code	Meaning	Example in our range
GY	Outdoor (field) optical cable	All outdoor families
GJ	Indoor optical cable	GJFJV, GJXH, GJBFJH
T	Jelly-filled loose tube	GYTA, GYTS, GYXTW
X	Central-tube construction	GYXTW
A	Aluminum tape sheath	GYTA
S	Steel tape sheath	GYTS
W	Bonded corrugated steel armor	GYXTW
53	Double steel tape armor + PE outer	GYTA53 direct burial
C8 / 8Y	Figure-8 with messager wire	GYTC8S, GYXTC8Y
ADSS	All-dielectric self-supporting	GYFFY mini ASU, AT cable
XH / FCH	Flat FTTH drop, self-supporting styles	GJXH 2×3 mm, GJYXFCH 2×5 mm

So a GYXTW53 order reads as: outdoor, central tube, jelly filled, bonded corrugated steel armor, double-sheathed - the build our Philippine buyer chose for pole-to-street runs with rodent pressure. Read the code, know the cable.

Drum Lengths, Packing and Container Loading

Packing fails shipments more often than cable fails tests. Our standard program packs like this (draft figures - confirmed per order):

• Drum lengths: 2 km, 3 km or 4 km per wooden drum for outdoor families; 1-2 km for armored builds; drop cable on 2-4 km reels or in cartons of 1 km coils.
• Drum protection: paper wrap, then water-frost barrier film, then steel-strap lagging on request.
• 20 ft container: roughly 70-90 km of GYXTW-class cable in drums, depending on drum size; drop cable cartons load higher.
• Marking: drum number, cable print, length, weight and your logo on both flanges; drum plan drawn to your route sections on request.

Your freight forwarder receives gross/net weights and drum dimensions in the packing list the day the container seals.

Installation and Handling: Get a 20-Year Life From the Reel

Good cable fails early when it is pulled or bent wrong. These are the site rules we print on every packing list:

• Bend radius: keep 20× cable diameter at rest and 10× under pull for outdoor builds - tighter bends attenuate and age the jacket.
• Pulling: pull on the strength member, never on the fibers; keep speed near 30 m/min and stop at the rated short-term tension.
• Seal the ends: heat-shrink end caps before a drum leaves your warehouse - water in an open tube ends the water-blocking job.
• Drum handling: roll in the arrow direction only, lift on the spindle hole, never flat-drop a drum from a truck bed.
• Min temp for install: standard PE jackets install above -10°C; below that, ask for our low-temperature build.

Follow those five rules and the cable outlives the poles it hangs on. Break one and our warranty talks start with that checklist - which is fair to both sides.

OEM, ODM and Private-Label Capability

As an experienced OEM fiber optic cable manufacturer, we build to your drawing or to your field problem. Three service levels cover most buyers:

• OEM: your logo on the jacket, your reel print, your packing list. Metering marks every 1 m. Free printing plate for orders above 5 km.
• ODM: our engineers size the strength member and armor for your span, temperature range and rodent risk, then issue a drawing for approval. First article on new ODM builds typically runs 20-30 days (draft).
• OBM / JDM: joint development for special builds - mini ASU for short spans, anti-termite jackets, hybrid power-fiber designs - with signed NDAs and exclusive tooling on volume.

OEM projects we shipped (draft references - replace with your approved cases)

• Philippines ISP backbone, 2023: 620 km of GYXTW53 double-armored cable, 24 cores G.652D, delivered in 3 shipments over 6 weeks for a metro FTTH rollout in Luzon.
• European FTTH installer, 2024: 40,000 m of GJYXFCH flat drop cable with a private logo print, LSZH jacket, called off monthly against a frame agreement.
• Middle East oilfield services firm, 2022: 96-core GYFTY engineered for -40°C to +70°C and heavy rodent exposure, inspected by the buyer's third-party agency before loading.

Buyers who terminate cable on site usually pair the order with our patch cords, fast connectors and termination boxes from the same warehouse, so the whole kit clears customs in one container.

Where Our Cable Works: Notes From Four Regions

Cable choice changes with climate, permits and crew habits. Twenty-five years of export taught this fiber optic cable manufacturer to adjust the build, not just the label, by destination:

• Southeast Asia: high humidity and heavy rain. Flat drop cable with LSZH jacket and GYXTW with bonded armor lead the mix; buyers print meters every meter for doorstep audits.
• Middle East: heat and rodent pressure. We hold jacket material to +70°C ratings and push double-armor builds; quotes list attenuation at both wavelengths because tender sheets demand it.
• Africa: long aerial spans and termite zones. Figure-8 and all-dielectric families dominate; anti-termite jacket options go in the drawing when the survey says so.
• Europe: LSZH expectations and CPR-aware paperwork. We ship LSZH drop and indoor builds with full certificate packs; distributors here buy on frame agreements rather than single orders.

Tell us the country and the route type. We answer with the build that already ships there - and the test data your authority asks for.

Wholesale and Distributor Program

Distributors and wholesalers run on margin, stock turn and predictability. The wholesale fiber optic cable program at HENGXANG is built for those three things:

• Container pricing tiers: price steps at 20 km, 50 km and 100 km per order cycle; mixed cable types count toward the tier.
• Stock and call-off: frame agreements with monthly call-offs keep your warehouse light while production slots stay reserved for you.
• Mixed containers: cable drums share the container with patch cords, splitters, ODFs and cabinets from our other lines - one B/L, one payment, one supplier.
• Protected pricing: agreed projects hold their quoted price for 30 days, even if raw material moves.
• After-sales: any reel with a confirmed factory fault is replaced in the next production run - the claim settles on test data, not opinions.

Distributors also get permission to use our factory photos and certificates in their own bids, which shortens their tender paperwork.

Certifications and Test Reports

Trust matters when a cable sits in the ground for 20 years. Our factory runs under an ISO 9001:2015 quality system, and our cable families carry CE test reports issued by UDEM International. The documents are public - see the full certificate list.

Certificate	Scope relevant to your order
ISO 9001:2015	Quality management for the sales and supply of optical communication products
OHSAS 18001:2007	Occupational health and safety management
CE - Low Voltage Directive	Optic fiber cable families
CE - EMC Directive	Optic fiber fusion splicers used in our test and splicing bays
CE - Machinery Directive	Cable blowing machine and cable tractor units (FK-80S / FK-80A)
Utility model patent	Fiber optic quick connector, inventor Zhou Liubo

Design standards: IEC 60794 cable construction, ITU-T G.652D and G.657A1/A2 fiber, RoHS-compliant jacket materials on request. Copies of certificates and recent test reports join every quote on request - most buyers file them straight into their tender pack.

Factory Strength: What Stands Behind Your Order

We started in December 2000 as a fiber optic workshop in Yiwu, Zhejiang - 25 years of cable-making under the same founder, LING LI. Today the plant runs coloring, stranding, armor forming and jacket extrusion lines in one compound, so this fiber optic cable manufacturer controls every step instead of trading steps to subcontractors.

• Production: multiple extrusion and stranding lines; typical monthly output supports container-lot programs for repeat buyers (current capacity figures available on request - confirm with sales).
• Quality team: led by Grace Xu, Quality Director. Incoming fiber lot checks, in-line diameter gauges, water-penetration and crush tests, 100% reel OTDR, drum-to-drum traceability.
• R&D: led by Zhou Liubo, Director of R&D, holder of the quick-connector utility patent. His team signs off every ODM drawing before tooling starts.
• Export desk: led by Peter Lin, Head of Export Sales. One named contact handles your quote, production photos and shipping documents from RFQ to B/L.
• Transparency: you receive production photos at coloring, stranding and jacketing stages. Walk the floor by live video call any business day, or visit us - see the factory gallery first.

Yiwu sits 2 hours by high-speed rail from Shanghai and next door to Ningbo port, so cable leaves the plant toward Ningbo or Shanghai in seaworthy wooden drums wrapped against water and frost.

Company quick facts
Founded	December 2000, Yiwu City, Zhejiang, China
Founder	LING LI, Founder & General Manager
Focus	Fiber optic cable, patch cords, connectors, splitters, ODFs and cabinets
Export markets	40+ countries across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas
Response time	Quotes within 24 hours on business days

Why Buyers Pick HENGXANG Over Other Suppliers

You compare suppliers on price per km, but the real cost hides in failed reels, missed vessels and silent factories. Here is where this fiber optic cable manufacturer differs, point by point:

Factor	HENGXANG	Typical trading company
Factory depth	Own extrusion, stranding and testing since 2000	Buys from factories, adds margin
MOQ	1-5 km per family, trial lots for first orders	10 km or full container minimums
Quote speed	Within 24 hours on business days	Days, forwarded to a third factory
Traceability	Drum numbering + fiber lot certificate + OTDR per reel	Box label only
OEM printing	Jacket, drum and label print; free plate above 5 km	Label-only print at extra cost
Inspection	SGS / TUV / BV welcome; live video walk-through	Rarely allowed before loading
Range	Cable plus closures, boxes, ODFs, splitters in one order	Single category only

One more difference: we say no when a spec will fail in your field. If your span is 300 m and the standard build covers 100 m, our engineer proposes a different strength member before you pay - not after the cable sags.

How We Work With You: From RFQ to Delivered Reels

The process is short and written down. You always know which step your order sits in:

• Step 1 - Inquiry: send your cable type, fiber count, length per reel and destination port. WhatsApp +86 134 3434 9304 or the contact form both reach the export desk.
• Step 2 - Quote: unit price, MOQ, lead time and packing plan, in writing, within 24 hours on business days.
• Step 3 - Samples: short sample lengths ship in 3-5 days for lab or field trials.
• Step 4 - Production: after deposit, you receive photos at coloring, stranding, armoring and jacketing. Lead time runs per the table above.
• Step 5 - Inspection: 100% reel testing plus your chosen third-party inspection, with reports and the drum plan in the document pack.
• Step 6 - Shipment: EXW, FOB Ningbo/Shanghai or CIF; documents issued within 3 working days of vessel departure.

First order or fiftieth, the same desk and the same engineer follow your file. Questions between orders go to our FAQ page or straight to your sales contact - the inbox is answered every business day.

Worked Example: What a 50 km GYXTW Order Looks Like

Numbers beat adjectives, so here is a typical mid-size order worked end to end (illustrative figures - your exact quote states your numbers). A contractor needs 50 km of GYXTW, 24 cores, G.652D, with their logo print, for an FTTH feeder project:

Item	Detail
Cable	GYXTW, 24 cores G.652D, PE jacket, logo print every meter
Drums	25 drums × 2 km, numbered FC-001 to FC-025 to match the route plan
MOQ check	50 km clears the 2 km MOQ by 25× - container pricing tier applies
Production	10-12 days: coloring (day 1-2), stranding (day 3-6), armoring and jacket (day 6-9), print (day 9-10)
Testing	Day 10-12: 100% OTDR at 1310/1550 nm, 50 test sheets, one per drum
Inspection	Day 12: buyer's SGS inspector samples 5 drums; photos shared live
Loading	Day 13: 25 drums, ~17-19 tons, one 20 ft container, FOB Ningbo
Documents	B/L, packing list, drum plan, fiber certificates, OTDR set - within 3 working days of sailing

Total: under three weeks from deposit to a sealed container. The buyer's crew starts pulling on drum FC-001 while FC-025 is still at sea. That is what ordering direct from a fiber optic cable manufacturer feels like - one factory, one schedule, one accountable contact.

Plan the Full Network, Not Just the Cable

A fiber optic cable manufacturer should also help you land the cable. Our bench and warehouse stock the parts that turn a buried reel into a live link: splice closures for jointing runs, termination boxes for building entries, ODUs for central offices, and PLC splitters for the split points. If you plan the passive network end to end, our ODF planning guide shows how cable sections map into rack positions, and optical transceivers plus adapters complete the rack. One supplier, one freight plan, one warranty conversation.

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