Openserve Fibre

MDE

MDE

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Quick question. Does Openserve bring fibre from the pole into the house or do they use copper from the pole?
 
MDE said:
You wouldn't know cable diameter would you?
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8mm - they tie it to the copper line attached to the wall socket and pull it through to replace the copper with a fibre.
 
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stricken said:
8mm - they tie it to the copper line attached to the wall socket and pull it through to replace the copper with a fibre.
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That can only happen, if there aren't any bends that can crack the fibre.
 
MDE said:
Quick question. Does Openserve bring fibre from the pole into the house or do they use copper from the pole?
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The former would be FTTH, the latter, FTTC.
 
MDE said:
Sorry meant to say I will work on 10mm cable. Will more than likely run 20mm conduit
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Use 20 or 25mm.

If you have a snake, made the bends yourself. If not, buy the "big" bends and use them. Buy bends, not elbows.

Use round boxes between every three lengths of conduit. This makes life much easier for the guy running the fibre.

DO NOT use round boxes where you have corners. I can't stress this enough.

Use the cement / conduit adhesive on your conduit connectors and male adapters.

The sun in the Western Cape is nasty. I've seen too many "dropping" plastic conduits on walls. Bite the bullet and use metal conduit where it's exposed to the sun and plastic indoors or underground.

Please post pictures.
 
portcullis said:
Use 20 or 25mm.

If you have a snake, made the bends yourself. If not, buy the "big" bends and use them. Buy bends, not elbows.

Use round boxes between every three lengths of conduit. This makes life much easier for the guy running the fibre.

DO NOT use round boxes where you have corners. I can't stress this enough.

Use the cement / conduit adhesive on your conduit connectors and male adapters.

The sun in the Western Cape is nasty. I've seen too many "dropping" plastic conduits on walls. Bite the bullet and use metal conduit where it's exposed to the sun and plastic indoors or underground.

Please post pictures.
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Goods advice this.

Regarding the metal conduit part: in our hood the fibre is overhead, so metal conduit will not solve the sun problem if it runs exposed between poles. Or is the fibre cable they install from the pole to your house a different spec without UV treatment?
 
Borrels said:
Goods advice this.

Regarding the metal conduit part: in our hood the fibre is overhead, so metal conduit will not solve the sun problem if it runs exposed between poles. Or is the fibre cable they install from the pole to your house a different spec without UV treatment?
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Yep, different coating / protective casing.
 
MDE said:
Sorry meant to say I will work on 10mm cable. Will more than likely run 20mm conduit
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No, the cable is much thinner. Great advice from portcullis (he's a "been there, done that" member!).

Very NB - no sharp bends anywhere!
 
If it's overhead.

I bolts on each side.

Steel rope with turnbuckles, pulled tight.

25mm UV stable polypipe (irrigation pipe).

Push the fibre through that.

There's no strain on the fibre. It lies loose in the polypipe.

We have a working example of how to do this at our offices in Somerset West.
 
Thanks for all the help guys...still a while before they finish everything so I have some time to plan and get materials.
 
Any idea how long they take to finally implement.
Openserve&Huawei dug up our streets and complex here in PTA, placed mini manholes everywhere and this was in October last year, even saw the splicers.
It's been a about 5 months and looked today, still no indications on any website to apply for fiber line.
Every-time it rains my adsl goes to the dogs.
 
ingeon said:
Any idea how long they take to finally implement.
Openserve&Huawei dug up our streets and complex here in PTA, placed mini manholes everywhere and this was in October last year, even saw the splicers.
It's been a about 5 months and looked today, still no indications on any website to apply for fiber line.
Every-time it rains my adsl goes to the dogs.
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It will depend on the regional priorities, resources, budget, etc. The only persons who will have an idea are the project management guys in Openserve.
 
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