The access network represents the point at which the high speed, high capacity network often touches the customer. This is also often the point at which the transition from fibre to copper technologies occurs. Typically these represent the most labour intensive deployments with copper cable pairs often in the 1000’s needing to be deployed, terminated, connectorised and tested. With higher bandwidth’s being pushed along traditional copper pairs you need to ensure that these networks are installed and tested to the highest of quality standards in order to deliver to their full potential. We have worked in a variety of locations such as Maldives, Dominican Republic, and in excess of 300 locations in the UK deploying the next generation of copper networks. The rise of the MSAN (Multi Service Access Node) has seen the requirement for the traditional copper wire to be able to support services including;
- POT’s (Plain old telephone service)
- ISDN
- xDSL (Broad Band ADSL/+, SDSL/+, HDSL, VDSL)
- VoIP (Voice over IP)
- IPTV (Internet Protocol Television)
This mix of services requires the highest quality of installation to ensure the deployed equipment meets its full capability. Poor connections (Wire Wrap or IDC) or cabling can see circuit impedance increase resulting in degraded performance.
Recent developments have also seen the MSAN moving from the typical exchange environment closer to the customer, this is known as “Street MSAN”. We have worked with customers to support these deployments carrying out activities including;
- Site Survey and Planning
- Utility Co-ordination
- Civil’s Construction and trenching
- Cabinet Installation
- Distribution cabling (Copper and Fibre)
