Armoured SWA

Name: Armoured SWA
Brand: Altnets

Heavy-duty steel wire armour.

Steel wire armoured (SWA) fibre cable gives the highest level of mechanical and rodent protection for direct burial and exposed routes without additional ducting.

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At a glance

Armoured SWA specifications
Specification	Value
Format	Loose tube, SWA armoured
Fibre count	12 – 288 F
Burial	Direct burial, no duct
Sheath	PE outer

UK Warehoused
Same-week dispatch
In-house engineers
Technical specs & support
End-to-end BOM fulfilment
Kitted, staged, delivered
120+ network builders
Trust Altnets to deliver

Key features

Built for how it gets installed.

Armoured SWA is one of the 13 cable types we carry across our Fibre Cable range — chosen for the way you actually deploy.

Steel wire armour construction

High crush and tensile rating

Direct burial without duct

LSZH and PE sheath options

Why Altnets

The clever choice for network builders.

Deep UK stock

300,000+ sqft of warehousing and 4,000+ pallet positions — same-week dispatch on most line items.

Engineers, not order-takers

In-house technical team to validate specs, propose alternatives and de-risk your build before it ships.

BOM, kitted & staged

Multi-vendor consolidation, phased deliveries and project staging built into every order.

UK & worldwide reach

Air, sea and road freight with full export documentation and flexible incoterms for global rollouts.

Applications

Where armoured swa earns its keep.

Direct buried routes

Substations and plant

Industrial and mining

Rail and highways

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Brighton · United Kingdom

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