Fibre optic cable ducts look kind of neat
They installed fibre optic Internet in my neighbourhood a while back, and this is what the cable ducts look like. Also interesting to see how these get installed, with a sort of huge needle/drill on tracks.
Meanwhile, OP's neighbourhood has no internet now.
Thanks for doing what we were all curious about!
Thats most likely "future path" from a company called Duraline. There should be a rip cord just like a cat5e cable.
They won't use all runs at once, hence the name future path.
Edit: I just assumed this was in the US, however this is made worldwide.
Canada, but all of what you said sounds right.
Just imagine filling all of those up with fibers. That's practically unlimited bandwidth.
You gotta say it like Senator Palpatine.
I'm just looking at that little blue wire. Makes locating it before they pull cables actually possible. So much of this type of stuff in my area can't be located using conventional methods.
I agree! Do the different colors mean anything?
I’m sure it’s how they find specific cables if they need to do a repair.
was at a facility that was installing a network for a new build out- I don't know how many cables were pulled, but they were pulling them twenty at a time, and the final bundle going to the network switching room was... uh... about the size of an enclosed slide in diameter...
... the guy at the box side, whose job was to label and cut was only doing the pull-side labels. They ended up loosing about two weeks on that project.
I fuckin' love fibre. Gigabit internet is a game changer (literally; I uninstall and download games so quick it's insane, even 100GB+ games aren't daunting any more).
The internet is a series of tubes
Awesome
How many fiber cables do they put in each one of those ducts? There’s 15 ducts and let’s say 5 cables each, 75 fiber lines is a ton of bandwidth!! Lots of room for expansion there.
I did this for work a few years ago in New Zealand and they run them through neighbourhoods with enough for each house and spare ones for errors and expansion. Particularly in commercial areas because some businesses need multiple lines.
The fibre itself is a piece of glass the size of a strand of hair with infrared shot down it, but with the casing it looks similar to that small blue one poking out there. Can’t remember exactly how many but that’s the size of a single line so you can fit a lot of them.
Mmm, candy.
Losing my fiber internet is what I dread the most about moving.
We need much larger investment in last mile fiber!
It reminds me of a diagram of the insides of a human bone. Pretty metal, ngl
Delicious pasta
Tell them to come to my street lol