One more thing to add...
In a two way system like ours, we are routinely going beyond the tap into the house. Ingress into the return is 95% of the time coming from the drops (HSD, Telephony, etc.). To think your time will be 100% in the "hardline" is to be extremely short sighted. Just another thing to consider...
> 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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