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Fiber
Optic Cable
Dateline: December 20, 1999
By Ann Zeise, photos by Scott Zeise
Fiber Optic Trunk
Comes Through Milpitas
Sunday my son and I watched as the Utilities Construction
Company strung fiber optic cable on top of (turned off) power
towers that run parallel to Milpitas Boulevard, about a half
block to the east. We chatted with an inspector for the company,
who told us that they were going to be stringing the cable all
around the Bay Area. This particular cable started in Hayward,
so scenes like this will be common in the Bay Area for the next
couple of weeks. Unlike another cable laying construction company
that has been getting in trouble for laying cable through Indian
burial grounds, this company specializes in high tower work,
subcontracting the services of helicopters. The linemen nonchalantly
hopped from tower to tower on the skids of the chopper. The chopper
also brought up tools, equipment and the heavy rope that was
first strung from the towers before the cable was pulled through
the large bike wheel-sized pulleys. The capacity of the cable
will be leased or sold in part to cities, utilities and internet
service companies. 
Commuting to work.
All in a day's work stringing cable.
Stringing cable.
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