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Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 22:45:38 -0500 (EST)
You've misunderstood the goal.The intent is not to protect the fiber, but to make it easier for the field tech installing new service in a neat way through finished construction and concealled raceways, without cutting sheetrock or stapling exposed cabling across walls.
Trying to prevent the next "bad fiber install" set of pictures.U.S. NEC does not require any mechanical protection for fiber cables. You can run "bare" fiber cables through most residential spaces (with a few exceptions for jacket material, i.e. direct burial cable not allowed inside habital spaces). Building codes may vary in other countries.
On the other hand, do some searches for "bad fiber install" for many examples of fiber installers stapling fiber around the outside of houses or zip-tied to gas pipes.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2023, Martin Hannigan wrote:
Looks like over priced residential inner duct to me. Sheet rock accomplishes pretty much the same thing. I want reliable home Internet too, but it’s not a CO. I’d install a PVC sleeve on the OSP to ISP transition. The risk of outage isn’t going to materially move one way or the other as far as I can tell.
Current thread:
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Josh Luthman (Dec 01)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Brandon Martin (Dec 02)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Jay Hennigan (Dec 02)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Brandon Martin (Dec 02)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Jay Hennigan (Dec 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Brandon Martin (Dec 02)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Sean Donelan (Dec 05)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Martin Hannigan (Dec 05)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Sean Donelan (Dec 05)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Gary Buhrmaster (Dec 06)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Eric Kuhnke (Dec 06)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Jay Hennigan (Dec 07)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Eric Kuhnke (Dec 08)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Justin Streiner (Dec 08)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Martin Hannigan (Dec 05)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Sean Donelan (Dec 07)
- Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference Brandon Martin (Dec 02)