FieldCast 2Core MM Heavy Duty 200m on Drum Fiber Cable

Fibre links fail at the end face far more often than in the glass itself, and the connector on the FieldCast 2Core MM Heavy Duty 200m is built around that fact. A threaded cap closes over the ferrule the moment the cable comes off a link, and cap, plug and receptacle seal to IP67 under EN 60529. Grit across a paddock, standing water on a compound floor, a road case dragged over a coil: none of it reaches the optical face. Both ends take the same male 2Core connector, which removes a check from the rig.

Two cores of protected fibre sit inside the tactical sheath, multimode 50/125 OM3, giving one full duplex path per drum: picture out, return back. Two blue rings on the connector body mark it as 2Core multimode, against yellow for single mode elsewhere in the range — which matters more than it sounds at two in the morning in a half-lit truck. At 3G-SDI, OM3 covers the full two hundred metres with optical budget in hand; move up to 12G and that headroom shrinks fast, so the transceiver datasheet is worth reading before a span goes UHD.

The 200 metres arrive on a Schill GT380 drum one operator can run out along a touchline and wind back without hand-coiling. Where a position sits further off, the half-metre 2Core MM coupler cable joins drums end to end for 400 or 600 metre runs, so reach comes out of the cable trunk, not a purchase order. The two-metre adapter cable terminates the pair in LC Duplex for anything with an SFP cage, Blackmagic Design's Camera Converter, Studio Converter and Studio Camera included, while the D-size chassis connector puts it in a 19-inch panel or flight case lid.

Two cores suit most camera positions: one link out, one signal home, nothing paid for that never gets patched. Crews reach for this drum to feed a rink-side camera at an ice arena, bring a roof-mounted receive point down to the compound, serve a video village set back from a drama stage, or link two campus buildings for a lecture capture. The Ultra Light version of the same 2Core cable stays thinner indoors; the Heavy Duty jacket earns its place on anything loaded into a truck, and a drum that survives several seasons of derigs costs less per season than one replaced yearly.