The GIRARD Professional Cabling System includes a variety of optical fiber cables for in-building and inter-building applications. Our Cables are qualified to meet or exceed the TIA/EIA-568 Commercial Building Telecommunications Wiring Standard.

They also meet and exceed the requirements for the FDDI ANSI X3T9.5 PMD document for 62.5/125 um Multimode optical fiber products. GIRARD distribution, breakout and interconnect cables can all be used in commercial buildings, in a variety of applications and they are either riser-rated (UL OFNR/CSA FT4) or plenum-rated (UL OFNP/CSA FT6).

GIRARD multimode fiber cable offering includes: Indoor & Outdoor Fiber Cable. They feature Corning's multimode fibers: which are rated to reach 300 meters and 600 meters respectively at 1 Gigabit per second at the short wavelength (850 nanometer). The regular (FDDI grade) 62.5/125 micron fiber is limited to 220 m (722 ft.) at that wavelength and the regular 50/125 micron is limited to 550 m (1210 ft.).

These fibers have been optimized for Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) which are used in the 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Base SX).The current bandwidth measurement technique is based on LED type launching condition which becomes irrelevant when referring to 1 Gigabit Systems. Therefore our fiber cables are specified by their reach rather than by their bandwidth.