Summary

The use of overhead power line routes by electricity utilities to develop a telecommunications right of way has now become common place throughout the world. The aerial optical fibre cabling technology used to exploit these rights are either additional to or replacement for the existing earth wires or phase conductors and in these situations form an integral part of the power transmission system.

Additional informations

Publication type Technical Brochures
Reference 132
Publication year 2001
Publisher CIGRE
Study committees Information Systems, Telecommunications and Cybersecurity (D2)
Working groups WG 35.04
File size 5 MB
Pages number 86
Price for non member 170 €
Price for member Free
Optical fibre cable selection for electricity utilities.
Optical fibre cable selection for electricity utilities.