Moss Bluff Internet

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Blue Wave 2200

The contractor in your area is installing the orange innerduct. They hired another crew to come behind them and blow the fiber optic cable (the black cable) through the innerduct. After that, the splicing crew will come through and make up all the connections and test them. If there are black cables coming up in the green terminal by your house, the fiber optic cable has been installed.

Back in the day, they had to blow a string through the innerduct and tie onto the fiber optic cable and then pull the cable through. Today, they attach a device to the fiber optic cable and use one of those industrial air compressors to actually push the fiber through the innerduct with air. I watched them when they were in front of my house. It's a pretty neat process and much faster than pulling it through. The contractor said on a straight run where they do not have to loop through any of the green terminals (junction boxes), they can go about 5000' in one push.

I must have been fishing that day.

My brother works for the Phone company [Job estimator] and was telling me about the slow process of connecting each strand of the "wires" of the fiber optics cable. He said that each cable connection could take anywhere from a hour to all day......depending on how big the cable is and if there are any problems.