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Posted by alodoiska on April 26, 2005, 7:37 am
Please log in for more thread options Hello everybody, I would be grateful if someone could upgrade my knowledge on new techniques to lay down fiber cable in urban areas, either in sewerage, water conduit or directly in their own protective duct. Are there any new techniques which enable minimum digging and damage to streets and urban facilities to lay down fiber optic cable? Thanks, Antony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by James Knott on April 26, 2005, 9:49 pm
Please log in for more thread options alodoiska wrote: There used to be a company in Canada, called Stream Communications, who ran fibre through sewer lines. They developed robots, that cleaned the line and then attached the fibre to the wall. However, IIRC, they went under, during that big bust a few years back. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by alodoiska on April 27, 2005, 1:46 am
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Dear James, What are new ways, what about electric utility network or else? My area is a combination of urban area with narrow streets and highways in between. Antony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Justin Time on April 27, 2005, 8:27 am
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Among the issues of running fiber on electrical utility poles is the cable support mechanism. Some of the newer fiber packages are using a totally nonconductive construction allowing the fiber to be placed within the required exclusion area for mounting other services to utility poles. This is important in areas where you do have access to the utility poles, but the density of electrical service lines would cause a traditional fiber with either a metallic messenger wire or strength strand to be mounted with less than the minimum clearance under the fiber strand. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by James Knott on April 27, 2005, 10:20 pm
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Justin Time wrote: > Among the issues of running fiber on electrical utility poles is the
> cable support mechanism. Some of the newer fiber packages are using a > totally nonconductive construction allowing the fiber to be placed > within the required exclusion area for mounting other services to > utility poles. This is important in areas where you do have access to > the utility poles, but the density of electrical service lines would > cause a traditional fiber with either a metallic messenger wire or > strength strand to be mounted with less than the minimum clearance > under the fiber strand. Several years ago, I worked for a telecommunications company. We often ran fibre into a building via electrical ducts. We could never have done that with copper cables. Also, in some areas, the electical utility will run fibre to customers, along side the AC power feeds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> I would be grateful if someone could upgrade my knowledge on new
> techniques to lay down fiber cable in urban areas, either in sewerage,
> water conduit or directly in their own protective duct.
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> Are there any new techniques which enable minimum digging and damage to
> streets and urban facilities to lay down fiber optic cable?