what does a green dotted line and a solid green line?
What is Trench and Conduit
100
what are the four different pole types?
What is power pole, joint pole, transformer pole, joint transformer pole
100
what are the two different types of coaxial cables comcast mainly uses?
What is QR860 and QR540
100
what symbol on spatial represents fiber optic cable
What is cyan blue line
200
What are the three main telecommunications companies we do work for?
What is ATT, Comcast, Time Warner
200
difference between a handhole and a manhole?
What is handholes are smaller. handhole fits a hand, manhole fits a man.
200
what does an aerial span and slack span look like on spatial
What is red line, red bulded line
200
what amplifies signal for coaxial cable? what piece of equipment splits cable?
What is amp, splitter
200
which piece of equipment stores fiber for future use or in case of damage
What is Storage Loop
300
what are each telecommunication companies contractors?
What is GCP, Arris, and CCI
300
what is a Pedestal?
What is an above ground housing for various distribution equipment.
300
what is an anchor for and the wire connected to it called?
What is support a pole line, guy wire.
300
what are the taps that self terminate?
what type of terminator would a 4 port 4 have?
What is 2/4 4/8 8/11
300
what is fiber optic cable immune to and why
What is electrical noise
400
what are the different divisions that James, Franco, David, and Jen lead?
What is David=Comcast Design
Franco= Time Warner Serviceability
James= Time Warner Design
Jen= ATT Design
400
draw the visual representations for a vault, manhole, pedestal, lockbox
What is drawing
400
what does a riser represent
What is vertical movement
400
Explain how signal originates and how it reaches the home
What is Explanation
400
explain how fiber is spliced using modern day technology
What is explanation
500
What is each telecommunications companies proprietary software called?
Bonus: what does each program run ontop of?
What is SpatialNET, BentlyComs, OPTI
Autocad and Microstation
500
draw a trench of 50' connected to a road bore of 27' connecting to another 68'
Bonus: why do we use conduit trench on spatial
What is drawing
going under obstructions
500
draw a 50' aerial span to a 100' aerial span to a 25' slack span with correctly placed anchors.
Bonus: what pieces of equipement cant be placed aerially.
What is drawing
none
500
Explain how signal originates and how it reaches the home
Bonus: when was coaxial patented and by who
What is Explanation
1880, oliver heaviside
500
name 2 of the different types of fiber optic cable
Bonus: what is fiber made from and how?
what is loose tube, armored, ribbon, aerial
Glass, Explanation