Tips & News - August 2015

communications

Easy to Install: Hubbell’s Opti-Loop ® Storage Systems Making the Grade

The prices for the Opti-Loop ® storage system are competitive and they are easy and fast to install.

-Van powell, Construction Manager, etc communications

ETCCommunications (ETC) inEllijay, GA is a familyownedcompany that has been in business for over 100 years. ETC uses fiber optic cable to provide telephone, cable TV, and high-speed Internet to about 17,000 customers in northern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee. The company uses ‘snowshoes’ to store extra fiber on the line and has been using products from a couple of different vendors. Last fall, ETC gave Hubbell Power Systems (HPS) Opti-Loop ® Storage systems a try and were very happy with the results.

Van Powell, Construction Manager for ETC explains, “There are probably 15 or 20 different companies that make similar systems and we’ve used different kinds in the past. Last year, Phil Peppers, ProCom Sales, brought us five sets of Hubbell’s Opti-Loop storage systems to try them. We put them up, and we like them.” A Good Stretch Cutting and splicing fiber optic cable takes a lot of time, interrupts service to downstream customers and, therefore, needs to be avoided. One way to avoid splicing is to include extra fiber cable in places along the lines, in case the company needs to change out a pole or make a road crossing.

opti-loop ® storage system features

Sizes that will accommodate all types of cable up to 1.50” multiple sizes

Some units can be stacked for even more versatility versatility

Requires only one tool for installation one tool

lightweight

Compact and lightweight to minimize stress and ice loading on the fiber cable

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