Damage to Fiber Optic Lines Creates Complaints > Not that bad

reply to dodgetech2

Re: Not that bad

fiber isn't an easy thing to fix, it all depends on how it was cut, and how much was damaged.
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Woot?

Actually, fiber is relatively easy to fix.

5 Hours to restore a cut fiber is outstanding.

A 216 fiber cable can be placed and respliced in several hours.

A 3600 pair paper insulated copper cable would've probably taken a couple weeks.

If you don't care where the various dial tones wind up, yeah, you can have it fixed in a day. Paper cable has no color code, therefore, if it's cut you need to tone every pair from the central office as well as the many remote terminals they serve. One pair at a time.

It's not just a game of continuity, but, straight continuity.

Trust me. I do this stuff for a living.

I could see it taking a lot longer with pulp cable- just don't see much of it anymore in our region. Of the many cuts I've had to deal with (not in the field though) I've never encountered one taking more than a couple days, including those involving thousands of pairs.

You sound like the management of my company (which shall remain nameless). Lol.

Anyway, getting back to the original point, fiber is immensely easier to fix.