Hey there... I asked that question some time ago.. Our system is alot like yours, but with telephony. We have 26 technicians, covering 3100 miles, 1010 nodes, 2800 powersupplies. A night shift of 2-6 techs take care of invasive plant repairs and outages, while the day shifts cover outages, degradation tickets, and system growth jobs. in between all this we try to sweep on demand... where problems indicate the need to sweep.
So, if i were in charge, I'd try to put 1 tech per 100miles on the day shift for sweep/ingress and 1 night shift tech for every 8-10 day shift techs for repairs...
Thats just my take on it... comments are welcome.
> Greetings,
> Was wondering if there was any intelligent comments or infomation out there regarding plant maintenance. The question I have, how many miles and or nodes should a reasonably competent line tech be able to maintain. Their maintenance responsibility would include the care and feeding of the plant from the service taps back through a cascade of no more than 6 actives to the node, then via fiber to the hubs and or signal processing centers. (99% will be dealing with the plant from the tap to the node.) 5 mile/500 node HFC architecture, plant is 60aerial/40ug, mostly typical suburban layout at 40 or so HPM. And a fairly decent upgraded, hotrod 750 plant, loaded with most all sevices including VOD etc but no telephony yet. (Testing now)
> The care and feeding would include: sweeping once a year, cli maint, outage repair and generally keeping it tight and performing well. No service calls. Remember Tap back. I know there are lot's of variables but let's not make it too complicated.
> So back to the question, how many lightly supervised techs per 1,000 miles? Is it 2,3,4,5,6 or? Any thoughts appreciated.
> Adios..
Re: Maintaining HFC Plant
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