Deploying FTTH Without Digging Things Up > I hope this technology works.....

I hope this technology works.....

It looks like it's designed for replacing the old copper trunks with Fiber optic cable. For what it does, it works beautifully.
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reply to W8ASA

The process works on almost all cables. Distances are shorter for buried service wire, but you can still successfully use the process on them. However, the process works extremely well on coax which I assume you would classify as a smaller cable. Coax is our bread and butter.

KabelX

In the late 1970s the phone companies buried the phone lines in many rural areas. Unfortunately they only buried enough wire for about three lines for every two homes(no room for any more). Since DSL does not go this distance and infrastructure cost for cable companies to build out is considered to high, it leaves them stuck. Would your technology be effective in these situations?

Thanks

reply to KabelX

While this process might work for running fiber through your old RG6 drop, I think it'd be unlikely that they'd do that. This would probably only be used to replaced the larger hardline that feeds the pedistal in your yard. The contractors that TWC uses to bury drops in the Dayton area aren't the best -- so I'd imagine they might be cheaper than this process. TWC Southwest Ohio has also announced they'll be deploying DOCSIS 3 by January 2010 in Cincinnati to compete against Cincinnati Bell's FTTH. My guess is that Dayton won't see FTTH from TWC anytime soon.

Thanks for the information. I think you're right about this system being used only for the larger cable types. The guys who buried the cable to my house actually did a good job, and cleaned up after themselves really well.

As for Dayton being at the end of the line: I agree with you. We seem to get things well after "everyone" else has them. In 2000, my friends in Jacksonville, Florida, had the ability with their cable system to search for local restaurants, information, etc. We still do not have that here in 2009. If portions of Cincinnati are seeing DOCSIS 2 in January of 2010, we will probably see it at least 5 years later.
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reply to W8ASA
120 feet would take roughly 8 minutes. This includes: set up, connection to the cable, pumping the cable, pressurizing the cable, extracting the cable, and running a mule tape back into the created conduit.

reply to Lazlow
Yes, what you decsribe is an ideal application for the process. There are countless miles of abandoned cable throughout the US. All of these cables can be turned into conduit, and the extracted copper core is recycled which significantly cuts the projects cost.