BICSI G4 2023
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BICSI G4-23, ICT Outside Plant Construction and Installation: Direct Buried Facilities
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| BICSI | 2023 | 67 |
BICSI G4 provides instructions and installation methods for placing direct buried cable and continuous conduit. In addition to methods of placement, details on route planning, transitions and other related topics to a successful job are included.
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 4 | BICSI International Standards |
| 6 | Table Of Contents |
| 8 | Index Of Figures |
| 10 | Index Of Tables |
| 14 | 1 Introduction 1.1 Overview 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Categories of Criteria |
| 16 | 2 Scope |
| 18 | 3 Required Standards and Documents |
| 20 | 4 Definitions, Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Units of Measurement 4.1 Definitions |
| 21 | 4.2 Acronyms and Abbreviations 4.3 Units of Measurement |
| 22 | 5 OSP Buried Plant Preliminary Considerations 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Safety Requirements 5.2.1 General 5.2.2 Personnel 5.2.3 Site 5.2.4 Identification of Buried and Underground Facilities |
| 23 | Table 5-1 Buried Facility Color Code (United States) |
| 24 | Figure 5-1 Examples of Tolerance Zones 5.2.5 Encountering Foreign Objects During Construction |
| 25 | 5.3 Right of Way 5.3.1 Introduction 5.3.2 Location of Communication Facilities 5.3.3 Construction Methods 5.4 Subsurface Utility Protections |
| 26 | 6 Route Planning 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Right of Way 6.3 Permits |
| 27 | 6.4 Route Planning Preparation 6.5 Pathway Considerations 6.5.1 Regulatory |
| 28 | 6.5.2 Burial Depths Table 6-1 Minimum Depth of Direct Buried OSP Communications Cables 6.5.3 Environmental |
| 29 | Figure 6-1 Example of a Ground Rodent Infestation Map (United States) 6.6 Joint Use Considerations 6.6.1 General Considerations 6.6.2 Random Separation of Communications and Power Cables |
| 31 | 6.6.3 Burial Depths for Random Separation of Communications and Power Cables 6.6.4 Planned/Fixed Separation of Cables |
| 32 | 7 Direct Buried OSP Pathways 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Pre-Survey 7.2.1 Requirements 7.2.2 Recommendations |
| 33 | 7.3 Placement Considerations 7.4 Direct-Buried OSP Placement Methods 7.4.1 Trenching |
| 35 | 7.4.2 Plowing |
| 37 | Figure 7-1 Example Cable or Wire Plowshare with Fixed Feed Tube |
| 38 | Figure 7-2 Example of Plowshare Shin Angles Figure 7-3 Examples of Plowshare Feed Tubes |
| 39 | 7.4.3 Direct Buried OSP Boring Methods |
| 40 | 7.5 Backfilling and Ground Restoration 7.5.1 General Requirements and Recommendations 7.5.2 Trenching |
| 41 | 7.5.3 Plowing 7.6 Installation Procedures for Filled Cables in Cold Weather 7.7 Use of Continuous Conduit 7.7.1 Overview |
| 42 | 7.7.2 Applications 7.7.3 Continuous Conduit Used in Direct-Buried Plant |
| 43 | 7.7.4 Continuous Conduit Placement Considerations 7.8 Transitions and Inserts 7.8.1 Transitions |
| 44 | Figure 7-4 Example of an Aerial to Direct-Buried Transition Figure 7-5 Example of Underground-to-Direct-Buried transition 7.8.2 Aerial Insert Considerations |
| 45 | Figure 7-6 Example of an Aerial Insert 7.9 Handholes |
| 46 | 7.10 Pedestals |
| 47 | 7.11 Route Identification |
| 48 | 8 Bonding and Grounding of Direct-Buried Plant 8.1 General Requirements 8.2 Pole Grounds 8.3 Direct Buried Cable 8.4 Bonding and Grounding within Joint-Use Trenches |
| 50 | 9 As-Built or Record Construction Drawings 9.1 Overview 9.2 Recommendations 9.3 Examples |
| 51 | Figure 9-1 Example of a Final Inventory Construction Drawing |
| 52 | Figure 9-2 Examples of Buried Plant Construction Route Planning Symbols |
| 54 | Appendix A Suggested Optical Cable Code (SOCC) (Informative) A.1 Introduction A.2 Manufacturer’s Designation (M1M2) Table A-1 Examples of SOCC Manufacturer’s Designations |
| 55 | A.3 Optical Fiber Type and Transmission Characteristic Designation (S1S2S3S4S5S6) Table A-2 SOCC Character S1 for Optical Fiber Type Table A-3 SOCC Character S2 for Dispersion-Unshifted Optical Fiber Table A-4 SOCC Character S2 for Nonzero Dispersion-Shifted Optical Fiber |
| 56 | Table A-5 SOCC Character S2 for Dispersion-Shifted Optical Fiber Table A-6 SOCC Character S2 for 50/125 µm multimode Optical Fiber Table A-7 SOCC Character S2 for 62.5/125 µm Multimode Optical Fiber |
| 57 | Table A-8 Sheath Character S3 for Direct-Buried and Underground Cables Table A-9 Sheath Component Identifiers |
| 58 | Table A-10 Sheath Character S3 for Special Application Cables Table A-11 Sheath character S4 for aerial cables |
| 59 | Table A-12 Unit Construction Character S5 for Outside Plant Cables Table A-13 Unit Construction Character S5 for Premises, Drop, and Service Cables |
| 60 | Table A-14 Unit Size Character S6 A.4 Number of Optical Fibers per Cable (N1N2N3N4) |
| 62 | Appendix B OSP Balanced Twisted Pair Cable Coding (Informative) B.1 Bell System Coding |
| 64 | B.2 Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Type Cable |
| 65 | Table B-1 Rural Utilities Service Acceptance Cable-Coding Plan |
| 66 | Appendix C Related Documents (Informative) |
