What Are The Advantages Of Underground Lines?

What Is Underground Cabling System?

Simply put, underground cabling refers to cables that are installed and buried at a certain depth underground. The UG cable that carry power and communications are buried in the ground, rather than suspended several meters above the ground like overhead lines.

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The Advantages Of Underground Cabling

Good Safety: Underground cabling work are relatively safe, less susceptible to natural disasters, and offer greater reliability and security than overhead lines. They are also less susceptible to interference from external factors, and they reduce the risk of electrocution or harm to people or animals. Damaged overhead power lines pose a safety risk to anyone nearby. Cables can collapse onto nearby cars or buildings, and downed wires can cause severe electrical shocks to anyone who gets too close.Underground cabling is the best option to ensure proper functioning regardless of weather conditions or unpredictable events.

Efficient Use of Space: Cable for underground use that can effectively utilize space and reduce the occupation of roads, areas and other municipal resources. Fiber optic cabletakes up less space than overhead cable, making it easier to get a strong, fast connection. For example, in central urban areas where ground resources are tight, choosing direct buried cables is a good cabling solution.

Lower Optical Loss: Underground lines have fewer technical losses and are more insulated. It has some equipment for insulation protection, such as fiber splice enclosure box and underground fiber vault. However, underground cable laying also experience some losses, such as leakage losses, which are losses due to insulation breakdown or water infiltration.

High Visualization: Underground lines can improve the aesthetic and environmental quality of the area because they eliminate the visual impact, noise and electromagnetic fields of overhead lines.

Related Products Used In Underground Lines

Fiber Splice Closure: Fiber optic closure, also known as fiber optic splicing closures, is a device used to provide space and protection for fiber optic cables spliced together. The quality of the optical fiber splice closure directly affects the quality and service life of fiber optic network.

Pre-connected Box: Fiber Access Terminal with pre-terminated cable assemblies provides fiber optic cable management for the connection of distribution cables and drop cables with advantages of having fewer cost and faster deployment at the user access point in fiber optic network.

Tube Distribution Closure: The closure offers protection to the accessed tubes and hdpe pipe connectors and contains an integral pressure relief valve to prevent accidental over-pressurisation.

Underground Box: Fiber optic vault is specially designed to provided protection, storage, equipment installation, maintance and other functions for underground embeddding of optical fiber splice boxes and cable products.

In Conclusion

Underground cabling work also have some disadvantages, such as higher construction costs and greater difficulty in subsequent maintenance. Overhead cabling has the advantages of easy maintenance, low construction cost, and good heat dissipation effect. Overall, there are pros and cons to each. For urban central areas, underground cables are used because they take up less space, are more aesthetically pleasing, and are safer; in the suburbs, overhead cables are chosen for easy maintenance and good economics; for more complex areas, choose appropriate optical cables lines based on actual conditions.

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We have been designing, manufacturing and supplying passive components for fiber optical networks since 2003. Everything we do in FCST is designed to provide efficient, simple and innovative solutions to solve complicated tasks.

We offer 4 solutions

lFTTH ODN Solution

lUnderground Cable Installation Solution

lAerial Cable Installation Solution

lFiber Tools & Test Solution

As a FTTx solution supplier, we can also do ODM according to project. We will continue to innovate and contribute more to the construction of the global optical fiber network.