Telecommunication cables are usually carried on the same poles that support power lines; poles shared in this fashion are known as joint-use poles, but may have their own dedicated poles. Utilities build fiber optic networks in similar ways that others build them, aerial and underground, but they also mix aerial cables in their power distribution cables, sharing towers and poles. In order to do this, they use some very different types of cables. My original plan was to trench new conduit and run CAT8, but given that the existing run is all "customer side" and installed by the former. A utility pole, commonly referred to as a transmission pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph post, is a column or post used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, fiber optic cable. TECHNICAL GUIDELINE July 30, 2020 TG030 Rev.
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