Category: Outside Plant
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A homegrown approach to rural high-speed Internet
February 4, 2020 – 4:53 pm Robin Sukhu If you live in rural Ontario, you know all about dreaming about high-speed internet. I live in Mississippi Mills and like most rural areas, we are stuck with either satellite service or over the air wireless with data caps, pitiful download speeds – and it is expensive. …
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December update
This will be the month of light and we will be officially starting to bring some zones online next week! With several PON segments online and active, the splicing crew is completing connections into the main trunk lines from the drops we have installed through out the area. As this happens, we are able to…
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Light on the Fibre!
We now officially have light on some of the Fibre strands to zones and are working to finalize installations. If you have had a tech visit your location and run cable / install a box similar to the picture below, expect to hear from us shortly to get you online. There are a few test…
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Trucking Along
New truck! Just last week we picked up a new F550 with an Altec boom+bucket truck which we can use to install fibre cables much faster: It sounds a little scary, but can be a line-worker in the bucket while the truck is driven (slowly!) along – while attaching fibre and getting more fibre to…
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Rock Solid Guys
Winter sure isn’t letting up, but we’re not stopping either! In this update you can see the various stages of installing rock bolts/anchors for guying the “messenger stand” that the fibre cables are attached to. While the snow doesn’t help the crew move around, the frozen ground certainly enables moving heavy equipment to difficult places…
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Fresh Fibre Delivery
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Overlashing a light cable
Overlashing Fibre-Optic Cables from Myke on Vimeo.