Case Study: Transfer Apartment Complex

Customers to a New Node to Relieve Congestion

Challenge:

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Ejecting the core from 782 ft. of active TX .700

cable to make it possible for a new node to be
installed to serve 350 HHP and relieve congestion.

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Service provisioning was required through a coax

New Node

temporary cable.

The temporary needed to cross a two-lane avenue

and an apartment complex parking lot.

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The .700 cable was installed under an 8-lane

boulevard Florida State Road 820.

Complication:

Four inches of rain fell during the 3.5 hour core

ejection and fiber jetting project.
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How the Work Proceeded:

The object of installing a new node was to transfer 350

Aerial to
Underground
Fiber

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HHP from a node at Pines Boulevard and SW 145th

Ave. which was serving several apartment complexes

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and several commercial customers totaling ~1200 HHP.

Deep Fiber Solutions first installed temporary service
using an RG11 cable which passed over 134th Avenue
and a parking lot trees provided a safe clearance height to the site of the new node
location. Then the Deep Fiber Solutions team established the vault located on the north
side of Pines Boulevard as the injection point for two spans of cable totaling 782 ft. before
fiber slack. In a torrential downpour the team ejected a 234 ft. span at the riser on the
South side of Pines Blvd. and ejected a 548 ft. span at the new node location, the 350
HHP apartment complex. Deep Fiber Solutions then blew a new 12-count micro-core
fiber cable from the riser to the new node location for a total of 1050 feet including
splicing fiber slack. Using a polyethylene sleeve, the Deep Fiber Solutions team had earlier
joined the two spans together to avoid a splice or figure-eighting at the vault. Once fiber blowing
was completed the new node was spliced in and the temporary was removed the same day.

Results:

All node split work core ejection, fiber jetting and

splicing was completed in less than a single day.

Two brief service interruptions, to install and remove

temporary service, were unnoticed by customers,
taking less than 60 seconds each.

A lengthy permitting process to bore

under Pines Blvd. was avoided.

Core ejection saved the cable operator

58% contrasted with typical construction
techniques.

Risks associated with boring a major

highway, including the potential for
damaging utilities or the roadway itself
and traffic issues, were avoided.