The Mechanics of Aerial Fiber Cable
With a plethora of aerial fiber cable products on the market today it can be difficult to differentiate and fully appreciate why one construction is or isn''t more suitable
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Aerial optical cable is suspended in the air from poles and/or support structures. Most often it is supported between poles by being lashed to a wire rope messenger strand with a small gauge wire. Deploying fiber above ground on poles or towers removes the need for underground digging and is particularly useful when the ground is uneven, rocky or both. Unlike buried cable, they excel in rural or suburban areas where trenching is impractical. Where reels are supplied with protective material fitted over the cable, the protection should remain in place until the cable will be installed.