Photos from Alcatel Lucent's fibre laying ship

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scottjpalmer

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#91155 7-Oct-2011 15:26

Today Bryony from Alcatel Lucent is on their fibre optic cable laying ship Ile de Re and she has/is posting lots of photos via http://www.twitter.com/alcatellucentnz

Get your geek on :-)

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#530602 7-Oct-2011 15:38

Not related to Alcatel-Lucent, but here is a demo of one of our guys splicing some fibre optic cable using a machine similar to one in pics:

Don't judge us on our video production skillz! We didn't go to film school!

The magic starts around 2m20s

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#530633 7-Oct-2011 16:14

tonyhughes: Not related to Alcatel-Lucent, but here is a demo of one of our guys splicing some fibre optic cable using a machine similar to one in pics:

Don't judge us on our video production skillz! We didn't go to film school!

The magic starts around 2m20s

Brings back memories. Basically the same gear, but the Fusion Splicer is a tad smaller than ~20 years ago. The monitor on the splicer seems larger though! The alignment stage was a more manual process with the older gear. Pretty sure the FISTs haven't change either!

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#530635 7-Oct-2011 16:17

scottjpalmer: Today Bryony from Alcatel Lucent is on their fibre optic cable laying ship Ile de Re and she has/is posting lots of photos via http://www.twitter.com/alcatellucentnz

Get your geek on :-)

Some cool kit there Scott!