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Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions?
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:38:23 -0400
On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:52:40 -0400, Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com> wrote:
I don't think there is virtually any aerial in Europe. So given the cost difference why is virtually all fiber buried on this side of the Atlantic?
Aerial is simple and fast... pull the cable through a stringer, move to the next pole and repeat; when a section (about a mile) is done, it's hoisted into the air and tied to the pole. The stringers are then moved to the next mile of poles and the process repeats.
Buried stuff requires a great deal of planning, permitting, and insurance. You have to know everything that's ever been stuffed in the ground within half a mile of where you're working to avoid the inevitable cutting of something important -- gas, water, sewer, power, other telcom, even vacuum tube lines and subways. And then you need trenching gear to get stuff in the ground, and crews to come along behind to remediate the "environmental damage".
(Once the conduit is in the ground, it's a trivial matter to blow whatever you need through it.)
Current thread:
- Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jean-Francois Mezei (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jay Hanke (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Alain Hebert (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jean-Francois Mezei (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Alain Hebert (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Michael Loftis (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jared Mauch (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Rod Beck (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Ricky Beam (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jean-Francois Mezei (Sep 02)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jason Baugher (Sep 02)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jared Mauch (Sep 14)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Michael Hallgren (Sep 02)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Baldur Norddahl (Sep 02)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Michael Hallgren (Sep 02)
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- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Baldur Norddahl (Sep 03)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jared Mauch (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Jay Hanke (Sep 01)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Rod Beck (Sep 04)
- Re: Moving fibre trunks: interruptions? Alan Buxey (Sep 14)