Central London – FTTH Abseil Installation

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PROJECT

Virtua are currently in an ongoing partnership installing superfast fibre to homes throughout the UK. Our current focus with this particular customer is on the cities of London and Southampton. This project involved installing fibre to the 344 properties located on a housing estate in central London.

SOLUTION

The estate is spread out over 5 buildings and 22 blocks which meant we needed to use several methods to provide connectivity. This included running cabling throughout the interior and exterior of each of the buildings.

Using the back-haul cable connected to our customers external network we were able to provide the fibre connectivity using specialist cabling, patch panels and power cabinets.

During the project we were required to abseil down multiple sides of the buildings to install cable looms consisting of catenary wire and installation specific cabling. Rather than with a straight drop, the decorative edges of the building meant our team had to take extra care when securing the cable.

Our teams also faced challenges with some of the middle blocks not having the capability to abseil. To combat this our team used a MEWP to reach certain areas of the estate.

The project took 3 weeks to complete the superfast fibre installation.

BENEFIT

By helping to install our customer’s superfast fibre network the residents at this central London estate can now choose to access their fibre services. In turn our customer can then send their engineers to finish the installation to that property.

This estate is just one of our ongoing fibre installation sites. Currently we are undertaking 7 projects with around 34 buildings in varying size all requiring an installation from start to finish.

See how we can help you with our FTTx services here.