Today's designers and installers must address a host of changing building codes, environmental issues, proper design, routing and topology concerns when building a fiber network. Fiber Optic Installation covers the numerous issues involved with the proper placement of optical communication systems for LANs, WANs and MANs.

Topics:

• Indoor campus installations:
• Campus
• Plenum/risers
• Pulling cable
• Cable trays/raceways
• Conduits
• Air blown fiber (ABF)
• Outdoor cable installations:
• Direct buried
• Trench installations
• Boring
• Pressurized cable
• Vaults, manholes, and handholes
• Aerial installations:
• OPGW
• ADSS
• Lashing
• Aerial ducts
• Figure eight
• Special issues:
• Building codes
• Installation standards
• Grounding/bonding
• Firewalls
• Cable markings
• Slack points
• Routing