Fibre Install

Lumen electrical has been working with this client for a number of years, mainly electrical installations, This, however has changed recently. We have a good relationship with their IT team and they realised they didn’t have enough fibre links with diverse routes to have sufficient backup if a cable was damaged.  They advised us what they wanted and we came up with a  solution.

As a company we know how vital it is for our customer to not have any downtime on their productivity, we devised a solution that would not disturb their workers and provide them with the new cabling they needed. We installed a 48 core fibre link between their main cabinet and the factory cabinet, a 16 core fibre from two dispatch cabinets, and finally a 16 core fibre cable between two intake cabinets. These fibres are intended to give backup connectivity to those locations if the main links go down. All of the fibres were laid in existing containment in lofts out of the way of the factory floor. Every vertical riser was steel tie wrapped to ensure we stayed within regulation BS6761. We used OM4 multimode fibre cable with LC connectors to match the existing backbone cabling. Using a Fujikura 90s splicer we spliced each fibre to LC pigtails for the patch panels. All terminations were tested using an EXFO 720c OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer) to ensure the fibres work. Every patch panel was labelled to ensure IT knew the origin of the cable that terminates there, ensuring a smooth transition if there was to be a fault on the main link.