Around here they won’t even do locates on fiber. They’ll just wait till the gas company digs through it and splice it back after instead of spending the time marking things.
Seems the backhoe is the most efficient way to locate fiber after all!
My dad worked for a rural water utility in the 90s, and he said that at that time fiber was the worst thing they could accidentally dig through. That area didn’t have buried power cables, it was pretty easy to cap off a gas line if you accidentally nicked it, and any electrician could splice a telephone cable back together. But fiber was a pain, because the communications company had to send down a special tech to do the splice.
I wonder what has happened to invert that so dramatically.
The devices to splice fiber have become cheap and very easy. You can watch videos of fiber splicing with such devices and will be proficient with them in roughly ten minutes. It really has become this mundane.
Even the bigger formats are simply being spliced one fibre after the other which in the core is a very easy process with modern devices.
Adding an extension and matching fibres on both ends of the track is a process that requires a bit of logic, true - but the splicing itself is learned in ten minutes, and that is my point.
I don’t even think they need to pull permits. The backhoe will find it anyway.
The backhoe is the natural predator of the fiber optic cable, after all.
Around here they won’t even do locates on fiber. They’ll just wait till the gas company digs through it and splice it back after instead of spending the time marking things.
Seems the backhoe is the most efficient way to locate fiber after all!
My dad worked for a rural water utility in the 90s, and he said that at that time fiber was the worst thing they could accidentally dig through. That area didn’t have buried power cables, it was pretty easy to cap off a gas line if you accidentally nicked it, and any electrician could splice a telephone cable back together. But fiber was a pain, because the communications company had to send down a special tech to do the splice.
I wonder what has happened to invert that so dramatically.
The devices to splice fiber have become cheap and very easy. You can watch videos of fiber splicing with such devices and will be proficient with them in roughly ten minutes. It really has become this mundane.
Good luck repairing a ripped out 864F ribbon cable with 10 minutes of YouTube tuition.
Even the bigger formats are simply being spliced one fibre after the other which in the core is a very easy process with modern devices.
Adding an extension and matching fibres on both ends of the track is a process that requires a bit of logic, true - but the splicing itself is learned in ten minutes, and that is my point.
Amazing how technology has improved, then!
Yep basically a little handheld glass melting furnace.
So it would be a public service to help locate it. Everybody wins.
A fucking mouse the size of a palm could theoretically fuck them over significantly if it unionized lol
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