Modular Route
The link between exchange (or blow point) and customer is set in place using ‘empty microduct cables’ called bundles.
The microducts can be connected together simply using push-fit connectors at any point.
The connectors need no tools for connecting or dis-connecting, yet can withstand high pressures.
Once a particular pathway is set up to a customer or cabinet, fibre can be blown all the way in one simple operation, taking typically 30 minutes.
Traditional optical cables would involve splices wherever cables join together.
In fibreflow routes, there are normally no splices at all, since the fibre passes clean through the connection until it reaches the end of the route.
If a new customer is identified, along an existing blow route, he can simply be connected by installing a small tube bundle from the existing bundle in the street to the building.
The original route is not re-dug. Just the link to it.
Push-on a connector and fibre can be blown at once.
Microducts and connectors and fibre can all be re-configured or re-used elsewhere. This is modularity.
