Title :
Blown fibre experience in the local loop
Author_Institution :
British Telecom, London, UK
Abstract :
British Telecom is embarking on an installation program to install fiber for its major business customers. In support of this activity, blown fiber has been introduced as a radically new way of installing optical fibers into the local loop. Blown fiber is a technique for installing optical fiber by blowing with compressed air into a preinstalled network of small-bore tubing. A brief review of single-mode fiber performance and effects of the cabling process is followed by a description of blown fiber
Keywords :
optical cables; optical communication; optical fibres; optical links; subscriber loops; British Telecom; blown fibre; compressed air; optical cables; optical fibre installation; preinstalled network; single-mode fibre performance; small-bore tubing; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Optical scattering; Performance loss; Telecommunications; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Subscriber Loops and Services, 1988. Proceedings, ISSLS 88., International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
DOI :
10.1109/ISSLS.1988.10658
