5-day Instructor-led training and exercises.

On completion of this course the participants, will be able to:

• General information
• Codes, standards and regulations
• Grounding (earthing) and bonding
• Documentation
• Route design
• Media selection
• Cabling topologies
• Spaces
• Pathways
• Right-of-Way
• Splicing
• Air pressure systems
• Marinas
• Maintenance and restoration
• Cost estimating

Learn the proper design techniques for underground, direct-buried, and aerial cable plant applications.  Attendees will gain the knowledge needed to make wise decisions on outside plant (OSP) telecommunications projects.  This course will cover elements common to all OSP telecommunications projects, along with design issues related to underground, direct buried and aerial cable plant.

During this course, you will apply what you have learned through a series of design scenarios such as route design, media selection, planning new OSP cable plant and cost estimations.

The desire to learn the right way to build telecommunications outside plant networks

• Outside Plant Engineers/Designers
• OSP Project Managers/Engineers
• Project Management Office
• OSP Contractors and subcontractors
• People pursuing their OSP Specialist certification
• Personnel involved with the construction of OSP applications
• End Users charged with the ongoing maintenance of OSP facilities

Module One: OSP Overview

• Roles and responsibilities
• Purpose of:
  • Standardization
  • Planning
  • Work prints
  • Right of Ways
  • Pathways and Spaces
  • Cabling
  • Air-Pressure Systems
• Professionalism

Module Two: OSP Cable Types

• Cabling
• Recognized cable
• Optical fiber cabling
• Balanced Twisted pair copper cabling
• Coaxial cabling
• Twinaxial cabling
• Hybrid fiber Coaxial cabling
• Other

Module Three: OSP Cabling Infrastructure

• Outside Plant Introduction
• Topologies
  • Star topologies
  • Hierarchical Star topology
  • Two-level hierarchical star topology
  • Physical star/logical ring topology
  • Physical ring topology
  • Clustered star topology
  • Optical fiber ring topology
  • Bus topology
  • Tree and Branch Topology

Module Four: OSP Pathways and Spaces

• Route Design
  • Preliminary Investigations and Surveys
  • Site Survey
  • Route Construction
  • Alternate Route considerations
• Flagging, Painting, and Marking Utilities
• Test holes (Potholes)
• Documentation
  • Right of Ways (RoW)
  • Joint use Occupancy
• Pathways
  • Underground
  • Direct buried
  • Aerial
  • Underground

Module Five: OSP Underground Pathways

• Underground Pathways
  • Conditions requiring conduit construction
  • Economics
  • Conduit system planning
  • Finished conduit system design
  • Future Conduit system requirements
  • Planning lateral ducts
  • Planning subsidiary ducts
  • Section length/diameter considerations
  • Maintenance hole (MH) location and quantity
  • Clearances
  • Conduit depth
  • Lice and dynamic loads
  • Dead or earth loads
  • Tensile stresses
  • Drain slope
  • Conduit formations
  • Advantages of multiple bore conduit
  • Types of conduit
  • Selecting a type of conduit
  • Conduit construction
    • Using Inner-duct
    • Conduit Casings
    • Wall thickness of casing pipe
  • Calculating conduit pulling tensions
  • Designing curved conduit sections
  • Air-Assisted cable installation
  • Micro-duct
  • Calculating volume of backfill
  • Trench work
  • Conduit design
• Tunnels
  • Utility tunnels
  • Pedestrian tunnels
  • Vehicular tunnels
  • Motivating design factors
  • Application areas
  • Utility requirements
  • Hazards
  • Ventilation
  • Fire detection
  • Support structures

Module Six: OSP Direct Buried Pathways

• Direct buried pathways
  • Route selection
  • Plough route selection
  • Burial depth
• Placing direct buried cable
  • Trenching
  • Ploughing
    • Vibratory plough
    • Rip plough
    • Rock saw
    • Clearances from existing utilities
  • Boring
    • Auger bore system
    • Horizontal directional drilling (HDD)
    • Missile bore system
    • Casing type
    • Cable markers

Module Seven: OSP Aerial Pathways

• Route selection
• Designing new aerial support structures
• Types of loading
• Storm load requirements
• Pole classification
• Numerical classification of poles
• Pole depth below ground
• Depth requirement
• Compaction
• Transverse load on a pole form Aerial line
• Loads imposed by Service Drop wires
• Loads imposed by pole attachments
• Transverse load calculation
• Selection
• Vertical loads
• Bending moments (longitudinal loads)
• Calculation of pole height
• Pole spacing and span lengths
• Total weight and maximum span lengths of the cable
• Special situation designs
• Clearances
• Support strands
• Clearances
• Support strands
• Anchor and guys
• Designing additions to existing aerial support structures
• Design transition structures

Module Eight: OSP Aerial Construction Practices

• Placement
• Depth of pole setting
• Restrictions of pole height
• Selection of Base pole
• Diameter and depth of holes
• Methods of digging pole holes

Methods of raising and setting poles

• Line truck method
• Raking poles
• Footings for poles
• Ground braces
• Push braces
• Installation of push braces

Module Nine: OSP Spaces

• Spaces
  • Confined spaces
  • Maintenance holes (MH)
  • Choosing precast or site-poured MH
  • Maintenance holes size extensions
  • Selecting MH by duct entrance
  • MH Types
  • Cable racking provisions
  • Administration
  • Sealing ducts
  • Opening, covers, and frames
  • MH extension rings
• Hand holes (HH)
• Pedestals, cabinets, and vaults
  • Ground level pedestals and cabinet criteria
  • Cabinets
    • Pole/wall mounted
    • Environmentally controlled cabinets
• Controlled Environment Vault (CEV)
• Concrete Universal Enclosure (CUE)
• Marinas
  • Docks with floating sections
  • Designating specific docks
  • Pre-cabling boat slips
  • Using Mechanical protection
  • Protecting cable, conductors, and terminals
  • Choosing conduit size and type
  • Bonding and grounding (Earthing)
  • Separation

Module Ten: OSP Splicing Enclosures

• Splicing locations
• Closures for twisted pair cables
• Aerial closures
• Direct-buried and underground closures
• Optical fiber closures
• Cabling hardware selection
  • Optical splice closures
  • Optical distribution centers/housings
  • Transition/indoor splice hardware
  • Transition structure
  • Outdoor splice hardware
• Connecting hardware
• Design considerations
• Splicing connectors for twisted pair cable
• Twisted pair cable
• Splicing Methodology
• Splice data
• Testing
• Waterproofing splicing
• Optical fiber cable
• Optical fiber splicing methods
  • Fusion
  • Mechanical
  • Mass
• Splice protection
• Optical fiber cable splicing hardware considerations
• Hardware labelling

Module Eleven: OSP Grounding, Bonding, and Protection

• Introduction
  • Exposed OSP
  • Grounding (Earthing) and Bonding
  • Multi-ground Neutral (MGN) and Non-MGN power systems
• Bonding Requirements
  • Aerial cable bonding requirements
  • Direct buried cable bonding requirements
  • Maintenance Hole (MH) grounding (Earthing) and Bonding
  • Building Entrances Protection
• Protectors
• Grounding (Earthing) for lightning protection

Module Twelve: OSP Right of Way (RoW)

• Right of Way
  • Types of RoW
  • Purchasing RoW
  • Options
  • Acquiring easements or RoW
  • Public RoW
  • Types of RoW facilities
  • Other considerations
  • Easements
  • RoW, easements, and permits
• Property Descriptions
• Methods of describing property
• Real Estate Law
• Chain of Title
• Restrictions, Covenants, and Conditions
• Liens and Encumbrances
• Contents of the Private Easement documents
• Permit information
  • Highways
  • Railroad RoW
  • Railroad Permits

Module Thirteen: OSP Statement of Work

Module Fourteen: OSP Design Documentation

• Construction Documents
  • Schematic design
  • OSP construction documents
• OSP Design and Construction Checklists
  • OSP Design checklist
  • OSP Construction specifications Checklist
  • Work permit information examples

Module Fifteen: OSP Cost Estimating

• Development of cost estimating
  • Scope of work
  • Site conditions
• OSP Cost estimating
  • Labour
  • Materials
  • Restoration
  • Special Equipment Situations
  • Services, fees, and purchases of licenses/permits
• Estimating the cost of a small project (Example)

Module Sixteen: Maintenance and Restoration

• Maintenance of OSP facilities
• Emergency restoration procedures

Module Seventeen: Special Design Considerations

• Air Pressure Systems
• Overbuild on existing aerial facilities
• Overbuild on existing underground pathways
• Extending a cable vault