PLS-CADD modeling

Fiber Planners uses PLS-CADD in designing fiber cable installations on high-voltage transmission line. Since virtually every large utility and power engineering firm also uses this powerful software tool and its' associated structural engineering modules, we can readily pass data back and forth to utilities or their engineering companies, streamlining the entire design and documentation package. On routes for which there is no PLS-CADD data, we can build a model by scanning and digitizing old plan and profile sheets, working from staking sheets and USGS topographic data and/or using FLI-MAP data.

Where structural engineering analyses or modifications are required Fiber Planners can pass the necessary PLS-CADD loading data to the utility's inside or outside structural engineers. If the utility doesn't have this capability, we can retain licensed structural engineers for the project.

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• Industry standards development
• Technical assistance to vendors
• Failure analysis and litigation consulting
• OTDR analysis and training
• Technical note publishing
• Helicopter laser surveys of inaccurately sagged fiber cable or conductors
• PLS-CADD modeling
• Feasibility studies of internal and dark fiber projects
• Telecommunications network design optimization
• Materials testing/replicating field failures