SHERIDAN, Wyoming – September 9, 2026 – ScaleFibre today released an open, freely-available reference guide comparing the fire-safety jacket standards that govern optical fibre cable across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific markets. The guide is published as a downloadable PDF, covering NEC OFNP and OFNR ratings, EU CPR Euroclasses from Aca through Fca, and IEC LSZH (Low Smoke Zero Halogen) classifications.
Specifiers and network designers working across multiple regions often have to choose a single cable specification out of three or more independent fire-safety regimes whose tests and acceptance criteria do not translate directly between one another. The guide pulls these into one comparison framework, providing an easy to understand reference for cross-region network design.
“Selecting the right cable jacket is a critical decision,” said Daniel Rose, CEO of ScaleFibre. “We deal with this complexity daily across our regional product lines, so we put the cross-standard comparison into a single open guide that anyone can read or download for free.”
The guide also answers common questions from multi-region projects, including riser-versus-plenum compatibility and how Euroclass ratings work, and cites the underlying standards documents throughout for readers who want to verify or dig further.
The PDF optical fibre jacket compliance guide is available for download, and is free to use, share and reference.
For more information on ScaleFibre’s regional fibre cable range, visit https://www.scalefibre.com/en/products.