On 13-02-04 19:48, Scott Helms wrote:
same trench IF you have buried cable and there is room. If you have aerial plant (common in rural telco deployments, less common in muni networks) you can also string your fiber on the same poles that you either own or have attachment rights to but the thickness of the cable doesn't change your costs any.
In Québec, some poles are owned by the telco and some by the electric utility. They have a deal with each other to gain access to each other's poles. However, that deal still involves engineering studies to ensure the weight of wiring/equipment on poles is acceptable. And this is where stringning heavier 867 strand cable could possibly make a difference compared to stringing lighter 4 strands (or however how many are used for GPON systems between OLT and splitter). After the ice storm of 1998 here, they are a bit more careful about how much weight they put on poles.