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By Deanne Shepard


Fibre optic cable consists of bundles of extremely pure glass threads that is used to transmit data modulated onto beam of light waves. The cable can be easily damaged if it is improperly handled or installed. Special care is therefore required during fibre optic cable installation to ensure reliable operation.

The placement of the fibre cable in either indoors or outdoors environments follows basic guidelines that must be followed to ensure proper handling, placement, smooth operation and possible easier maintenance in future.

Before wire installation, one should ensure the site of placement is suitable. This makes sure that any probable difficulty that may be experienced is well taken care of. Impediments such as climatic conditions or machinery operation ought to be taken into consideration for appropriate placement of the wire route. In case of any inquiries regarding the laws or the building regulations, they ought to be directed to the authoritative bodies

Thereafter a comprehensive design is done before the deployment. This thus entails certain procedures whose basic foundation depends on the communication paths needed, determined hardware requirements, length of wires and lastly compiling a list of various components and hardware needed and the exact points they are used.

Formulate a wire pulling strategy. The system should represent the deliberations taken in during the site survey to the deployment team. For example, the location of transitional access points, the procedures of securing wires and other operating equipment and defined tasks of every individual of the team performing deployment.

Right guidelines should be adhered to. Due to sensitivity of it to moisture, its end needs to be covered always in either end cap or heavy tape. Attending to its indentations must be a norm during a pull since extra or difficult pulls, back feeding or center-pull techniques may be used.

Ensure that the optic fibres minimum bend radius is never surpassed. During cable placement, it is important that it is not bent to either increase or decrease radius than its normal radius value. After it has been installed, and the pulling tension removed, the fibre may only be bent to the normal radius. The shape of fibre optic cable can be distorted at will to suit your needs as long as there is no violation of the constraints of minimum bend radius.

Maximum Recommended Load should never be surpassed during any stage of cable deployment. Each wire has a specific strength rating, hence upon placement completion the outstanding tension on the cable should always be less than this value.

Leaving additional cable at the end as well as the commencement of the wire run is always recommended. Furthermore, placing an extra one at premeditated positions should always be put to practiced for efficient operation.

Lastly, document your installation guidelines and steps in simple to revise but organized manner. This will help to ensure that the wire plant is installed correctly and that future trouble shooting and upgrading will be simplified.




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