III.3.9: Crossings
– All crossings are to be made perpendicular to the roadway.
– Road crossing machines should be used with a depth of not less than 1m.
– Any cables should be protected with appropriate ducts along the whole crossing
length.
III.3.10: Duct Sharing
Fiber Optic installation conductor shall install at least two (2) pipes with a minimum of
twelve (12) cores on access network and 4 ducts on backbone network in order to facilitate
fiber and duct sharing. The payment of these reserved pipes and cores by a new operator will
follow the Guidelines for fiber and duct sharing.
III.3.11: Sharing Point and Shared Building Cabling
The shared building cabling and sharing point for fiber installation in building with
multiple operators is mandatory in order to:
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Reduce fiber installation and maintenance costs in the building
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Reduce disturbance (noise, infrastructure works, dust…) for inhabitants
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Avoid cabling duplication if more than one Fiber to the home (FTTH) operators are
in a building
The Shared building cabling combined with the sharing point should support both Point to
Point and Point to Multipoint access network topologies.
The first applicant to connect a building should provide a sharing point that might support
sharing of four operators in case of need to share the cable.
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