I use to work for a company called SIECOR (now called Corning Cable Systems) out of their Hickory, NC location.
I worked for their field engineering division. After companies would buy the fiber optic cable we would follow along later and splice the cables together and put on the connectors once the cable was strung.
This was a great job, but a lot of work and even more travel. We did jobs that took months to complete in Ohio, California, New York, all over. These were networks for intelligent traffic systems, cable TV networks, even college campuses like UC Davis.
I must say that here around Long Island, NY there is way too many of the situations in the image above where the minimum number of splices were made to do the local ‘drop’ (terminate a fiber or two) and the excess cable is just rolled and left to the elements.
With regards to the technology, there is nothing wrong with this. These cable systems need lots of excess to counter cables that break or to expand on the capabilities of the network at a later date. But there are better ways of doing this.
Notice the little loop mechanism next to the large loop of loose cable. We called these ‘snowshoes’ and is an excepted way to hang the excess cable slack. You slide the two ends closer together and you’ll get the slack you need.
The large loop is susceptible to excess weight during snowfalls, ice will form creating an additional hazard; it is just unprofessional and quite frankly irresponsible for the company who put in this network.
I sure hope that over the summer I’ll be able to see all these loops of slack cleaned up in some way.
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