Quiz yourself: power industry best practices for fiber deployment

Question page 3 (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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#21. Does your design meet all appropriate NESC standards? Was your system built as specified or were things fudged?(Shortcut to answer page 3)

#22. Have you set up a CLEC, hybrid fiber/coax CATV network or FTTH (fiber to the home) business or are you planning to? If so, did you get an outside feasibility study? If so, was it by a potential vendor? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#23. If you are offering CATV services, did you hire someone out of that industry? If you've set up a CLEC, have you hired someone with telco experience? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#24. Do you always use sheaves at least the diameter required by the manufacturer? Do you know that diameter off the top of your head? Does someone check the crews - at every pole or tower - to make sure they're complying? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#25. Do you ever use a cluster of smaller sheaves in order to get the bend radius required of a large sheave? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#26. What fiber counts did you use? How did you pick those numbers? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#27. Does your designer have fiber experience? If not (for instance, they may be a staking engineer or transmission engineer), who trained them on designing utility fiber installations? Does your designer have utility line design experience? If not, who trained them on designing fiber installation for utilities? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#28. (Buried cable runs) Do you have a marker wire or marker balls to enable locating your cable in the future or do you rely on cable markers? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#29. (ADSS) Do you ever use the "moving reel method of installation"? (Shortcut to answer page 3)

#30. (ADSS) Do you use installation crews with cable TV or telephone fiber experience? Do you use crews with a power installation background? If they have a power background, who's trained them on installing fiber? (Go on to question page 4 or check answer page 3)

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