Cable containing epoxy-modified encapsulation composition

Claim 1

A telecommunication cable segment having at least a portion thereof coated with a pourable liquid composition consisting essentially of: (A) a liquid graft polymer having a Brookfield viscosity of less than about 1,000,000 centipoise at 25° C., said graft polymer either possessing no melting transition peak or possessing a melting transition peak having a maximum value below 25° C. as measured by Differential Scanning Calorimetry; said graft polymer being comprised of: a polymeric backbone selected from the group consisting of polyalphaolefin, ethylene/alphaolefin, copolymer, ethylene/alphaolefin/non-conjugated polyene terpolymer, polyisoprene, polybutadiene, and alphaolefin/polyene copolymer; said polymeric backbone having grafted thereto a sufficient amount of at least one compound selected from the formulae: ##STR6## wherein R" is a C 2 -C 16 hydrocarbon radical containing an ethylenically unsaturated bond or a C 3 -C 12 radical containing one or more carbonyl groups and an ethylenically unsaturated double bond; ,and is hydrogen or C 1 -C 4 alkyl; such that said graft polymer is rendered crosslinkable; said graft polymer having a number average molecular weight of between about 500 and about 20,000; and (B) a sufficient amount of a suitable curative to cure the composition.