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What's the minimum bend radius for plastic fiber these days?


Larger than ‘getting kinked in a desk drawer’. Though smaller than when the market made the decision of course.

You still need the copper wires to do power delivery, so either you end up with an even thicker cable, or multi-purpose the copper cables for signaling too.


Around 10 mm for OS2 cables.




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