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Optical Ground Wire

Drivers

Two major developments are driving the growth in OPGW installations. These are firstly the growth in IT bandwidth requirements and secondly deregulation of the telecommunications industry occurring all over the world. Municipalities look to establishing communication links with their distribution system and one way to do this is replacing existing pilot cable with OPGW or even to replace existing GW with OPGW. With deregulation utilities are seizing the opportunity to provide services to other service providers using their existing infrastructures and rights of way.

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Antony Falconer PrEng
General Manager
Product Development & Application
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