Overhead Fiber Optic Cable Installation

Installation of the cable must be carefully done to prevent snagging and kinking the cable as it is pulled among the numerous hazards in a typical building installation.

Overhead fiber optic cable installation.

First is to lash a fiber optic cable to a steel messenger. Aerial fiber optic cable refers to a kind of fiber optic cable that is designed and used for outside plant osp installation between poles by being lashed to a wire rope messenger strand with a small gauge wire. Generally speaking they are usually made of heavy jackets and strong metal or aramid strength members. Do not mix copper cable and fiber cable in the same ducts or trays.

A steel messenger is first installed between the poles. This fact is not relevant to traditional aerial fiber deployment but it is of great significance to a less common method of fiber optic installation known as helical wrap or optical attached cable. Fiber optic cables should be placed in their own dedicated ducts or trays. Pioneered in the early 1980s the helical wrap method used a machine to wind a fiber optic cable around an existing power line.

Then a cable reel trailer and truck are used to pull the cable along the messenger. The average fiber optic cable installation cost ranges from 1 to 6 per foot depending on the number of fibers used. Accesswrap is a technique that installs a fibre optic cable onto an overhead electricity distribution line by wrapping it securely onto one of the power conductors. After the fiber optic cable is installed into a duct or innerduct end plugs should be installed to provide an effective water seal.

According to different aerial cable types there are generally two installation ways. Fiber optic cables should not be mixed with copper cables as the heavier copper cables can stress the fiber cables. Since we cannot pinpoint the real cost range let us just use a reference point.