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by stephen_g 21 days ago
How much of that was terminating vs splicing for the optical fibre? I have not done the actual hands on work of splicing but have specified fibre runs a couple of times and all the guidance I have seen is that for reliability you want to always splice on good-quality, factory-terminated pigtails because field terminated connectors are (so I've read) very unreliable. When possible we've just run pre-terminated cables so we don't have to get somebody in to splice and that's been really reliable.