Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!slc6!lim From: lim@slc6.INS.CWRU.Edu (Hock Koon Lim) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: FDDI cable Message-ID: <1991Jun27.015738.19116@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 01:57:38 GMT References: <38734@sequoia.UUCP> <40050004@hpctdkr.col.hp.com> Sender: lim@po.cwru.edu Reply-To: lim@po.CWRU.Edu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: slc6.ins.cwru.edu In article <40050004@hpctdkr.col.hp.com> pjw@hpctdkr.col.hp.com (Peter Walsh) writes: >/ hpctdkr:comp.dcom.lans / randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) / 3:57 pm Jun 25, 1991 / >In article <38734@sequoia.UUCP>, ali@sequoia.UUCP (Ali Toossi) writes: >> >> Need some general informations about FDDI cabling. We have two buildings >> that are ~400 ft. apart. A contractor/installer tells me that cable must be >> buried underground but I've heard from other sources that cable can go on >> poles, Our CCTV's cables between two buildings run on pole. >> Is there any books or manuals on FDDI cabling, specs, and how to do? We have >> an in-house electrician who ran the cable for CCTV. > Siecor has published a nice book call "FDDI network cabling guide" and give a lot of detail design information of a fiber optic based network. You can get this book from your distributor or call Siecor at 1-800-634-9064. You sure can run the fiber cable on the pole between building. However, if possible, I would advise you to run it in the underground conduit for better protection. We have a small segment(~1000') of our fiber is running on the light poles in order to get across the rail road tracks. We try to get them under the track but after a year of negotiation, most of the issues still have not get resolve. -- Hock-Koon Lim, Information Network services Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA 44106 (216) 368-2982 lim@ins.cwru.edu