[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

James Hawtin oolon at ankh.org
Fri Mar 27 13:44:57 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:58:50AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>    Early fibre installations were fed using fibre pulled throug the ducts as
> normal, but it did not like being pulled and there were multiple breaks. I
> do not know whether it has now been strengthened, but I gather they tried
> blowing it through the ducts rather than pulling.
> 

They pull a carrer that can take 4 or 8 fibres, you need a pair for duplex,
then blow the fibre along that. One of the favourette cons of structure
cabiling companies is to quote you per fibre, rather than per connection, so
you end up having to pay double.

James
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