Optical fibre installation system
16 March 2011
Interconnection
The recent upsurge in bandwidth demands from corporate and domestic clients has led to the requirement of high-bandwidth communication links being designed and built. Fibre-optic networks are best suited to this requirement both from a bandwidth and a cost point of view.
Unfortunately, installing a fibre-optic network as a post-construction exercise tends to be a messy and destructive process: roads are ruined due to the large scale digging and trenching, designer gardens are ruined in business parks, shopping mall entrances and walkways are never the same once a post-construction network is installed.
SMS and Blown Fibre have developed a solution to address these problems in the form of a technique called Micro Slotting. Micro slotting is the process where a very narrow slot (5 mm–20 mm) up to 200 mm deep is cut into the ground’s surface (be it tar, cement, etc). Micro ducts are then installed in the slot through which the optic fibre is ‘blown’. The surface is rebuilt either by using the material which was removed or through the use of synthetic filler which can be coloured to match the surroundings. The small/narrow cut in the surface means very little rubble is produced and repair is a comparatively simple task. The process of cutting a narrow slot is faster and cleaner than other methods of trenching, and the machines used for micro slotting are not particularly bulky, making the whole process less disruptive to the normal daily operations of the site in question.
The micro slotting methodology is well suited for short haul (eg, industrial fibre-optic networks, connectivity to GSM towers and fibre-to-the-home); medium haul (eg, metro fibre-optic networks), and long haul (eg, intercity fibre-optic networks).
For more information contact Scimitar Micro Slotting, +27 (0)12 346 5667.
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