Vibration and Shock Testing of Lightguide Cable
The amount of buried fiber optic cable installed increases every year. As the quantity of fiber cable increases, so has the number of inquires about the effect vibrations generated by nearby construction will have on the fiber in buried cable. Of particular concern are construction operations which produce high intensity shock waves such as blasting and pile driving. In this work a series of shock and vibration tests were conducted on a length of AT&T lightguide cable. The tests were conducted in the Environmental Technology Group's Laboratory at AT&T-Bell Laboratories in Whippany, NJ.