Recently I had the opportunity to complete works for a client in Katikati, north of Tauranga. This part of the fibre network is owned by Tuatahi, who have recently completed several rural stages of fibre deployment to provide further fibre accessibility into the rural area.
The client’s home was approximately 550m from the fibre tube installed on their shared driveway.
In this instance, the initial 200m of installation is included within the typical free connection parameters provided by Tuatahi via the clients RSP (Retail service provider) of their choice. This left a balance of 350m to be installed at the client’s cost.
Methodology invovled a mixture of both mini trenching approximately 250m, and 100m of on-fence install.
The fence mounting option worked great in this case where the terrain was rocky near a river bed, and was susceptible to washout through a steep vehicle access cutting. The fence option ensured this area of ground was not disturbed, and is non-intrusive enough to blend in with the existing fencing wires.
The trenching provided a 300mm cover for the fibre tube, which was joined through providing a continuous path from the house to the 200m handover point.
Although this particular home had a comms cupboard and a mini data network distributed throughout the house, it had no copper link to the exterior. The best way to resolve this was to install LSZH (low smoke zero halogen) tubing and fibre cable from the proposed ETP position through to the comms cupboard, to allow connectivity and to utilise the existing data network.
From here, the client simply had to advise their RSP that their within boundary civil >200m was complete.
The RSP then arranged for the initial 200m installation, before Tuatahi requests local provisioning contractors to blow the fibre, install the hardware and commission.
Overall it was a great project. I enjoyed getting to know the clients and providing them a great result.
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