Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

[Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>]

On 12/2/23 15:09, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> Rigid conduit is essentially galvanized plumbing pipe. Very rare in new 
> construction other than for overhead electrical service entrance. It's 
> extremely heavy and difficult to work with. As its name suggests, it's 
> quite rigid. Not easily bent or cut and needs to be threaded.

I didn't mean strictly RMC but any form of generally rigid conduit to 
include rigid PVC.

You're correct that RMC is rarely used for anything other than service 
masts at least as far as I've seen.  The only other time I see it used 
is classified (explosive) environments.

> Innerduct or ENT is far less expensive and orders of magnitude easier to 
> deal with for low voltage applications.

That's pretty much my point.  Even EMT (which can be bent with a bender 
or "hicky" but is otherwise rigid) and PVC are a pain to work with in 
comparison to something that's basically flexible tubing.