Is this fibre?

[charlieharper]

72?

I think OP was walking with a panga chopping cables looking for coppah baba.

Shhhhh

 

[xodosman123]

That Is Fibre

 

[Not_original]

Thank god for Aerial Fibre, quick to roll out, little wayleaves, little trenching. How many power outages and hit water pipes do you want by having 2 x trenching instead of 1 aerial and 1 trenching?

Yup we had our fair share of no water / electric it has come to the point where I now call a ditchbitch (trenching machinery) an utility locator

 

[charlieharper]

Cool, will take a walk again tomorrow, and have a closer look. Thanks!

As promised. Apologise for the focus.



Looks like 24 core, (D-24F). From a massive roll of cable just chilling next to the road. lol

 

[charlieharper]

Good to know that I wasn't being delusional thinking that cable on that single pole next to the Telkom Tower up the road from me was fibre.

I think most LTE towers are being served with Fibre nowadays.

 

[Polymathic]

I think most LTE towers are being served with Fibre nowadays.

Yeah, Openserve hooked up the tower with underground Fibre and for whatever reason they strung up fibre on the Telkom pole next to tower and that made me think that we were going to get aerial fibre within weeks, coming up on 3 years later and the fibre hasn't moved past that single pole

 

[pinball wizard]

I think most LTE towers are being served with Fibre nowadays.

Most GSM towers.

 

[charlieharper]

Yeah, Openserve hooked up the tower with underground Fibre and for whatever reason they strung up fibre on the Telkom pole next to tower and that made me think that we were going to get aerial fibre within weeks, coming up on 3 years later and the fibre hasn't moved past that single pole

Yeap.. similar when Link Africa trenched our street and laid underground Fibre about 4/5 years ago - it goes to the 4G towers up the hill. Was hoping it would go into an FTTH service, but nothing happened with that.

Actually back then, we only had 3G signal.. Soon after Link Africa did their thing, the signal magically it transformed into 4G. I assume it used Microwave or something prior and then it switched to Fibre.

 

[Not_original]

As promised. Apologise for the focus.

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Looks like 24 core, (D-24F). From a massive roll of cable just chilling next to the road. lol

That massive roll of cable would not have been there any more if it was copper.... Suffice to say it is fibre lol

 

[charlieharper]

That massive roll of cable would not have been there any more if it was copper.... Suffice to say it is fibre lol

Facts!

 

[Rickster]

And here is what typical underground blown fibre looks like.
Note the colour code.
How many fibre cores would you guess this to be?

Zero, to be exact.

 

[Xtm]

yep.. that is fiber cable.