An optical fiber cable includes a number of optical fiber bundles. Each bundle
contains a number of optical fiber cable units, and a relatively thin skin surrounds
the cable units and retains the units in a desired configuration another over the
length of the bundle. Each cable unit includes a number of optical fibers, and
a first outer jacket that surrounds the fibers. The bundles are protectively enclosed
by a second outer jacket of the cable. In an illustrated embodiment, each cable
unit has 12 fibers, each bundle contains 12 cable units, and six bundles are protectively
enclosed by the second outer jacket, so that the cable contains 432 optical fibers
each of which is traceable by color and/or indicia markings.