Quiz yourself: power industry best practices for fiber deployment

Question page 2 (of 5)

In the questions below, "transmission" refers to installations on lines >100 kV and "distribution" refers to installation on lines < 100 kV. NESC refers to the National Electrical Safety Code which governs all electric utility installations in the U.S. (and any other jurisdictions that adopt it).

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#11. Do you know where those carriers' POPs are and have you made provision to run taps to them in the future? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#12. Have you identified the major potential business and institutional customers near your routes and made provisions to run fiber taps to them? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#13. If building a network after September 11, 2001, have you talked to local homeland security and law enforcement personnel about possibly using your dark fiber for security video feeds? How about your own internal security department -- do they want fibers for video cameras at substations and other key assets? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#14. Do you have a dark fiber marketing plan? Is someone actually working it? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#15. Do you require to cable vendor supply test reports from independent test labs (such as Kinectrics - formerly known as Ontario Hydro Technologies)demonstrating compliance to IEEE standards for OPGW and ADSS? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#16. Do you use any premium fibers (such as LEAF®, MetroCor™, AllWave®, or TrueWave®) in your network? If so, why? If not, why?(Shortcut to answer page 2)

#17. Do you use any multimode fiber in your outside plant? If so, where and why? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#18. Do you have an emergency restoration kit? Do you have an emergency restoration plan? Have you practiced it in the last 6 months? Last year? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#19. How often do you check your lines with an OTDR once they're in service? (Shortcut to answer page 2)

#20. What wavelengths do you test your fiber at? (Go on to question page 3 or check answer page 2)

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