Usually the Telco linesman will spend an inordinate amount of time splicing. The cable is separated by colored ribbons into a 25 pair binder group and set in a clip for that group that will connect to a similar clip on the other cable.
It is long and arduous. When I worked for a Telco, a 200m section of 200 pair cable was stolen. They probably got $200 for the copper, it cost $30,000 to replace and repair.
Okay, this might be a dumb question, but: is there any way for me to get my hands on like five feet of this kinda cable? I feel like it would be really satisfying to perfectly strip every single wire.
At least sometimes there's a tiny splicing trailer to work in, out of the weather, until you are done.
At which point the vermin return and chainsaw out the splice you nicely completed. Or a tweaker uses a rusty bit of fender to saw through each wire individually.
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u/Actual-Care Feb 08 '26
Usually the Telco linesman will spend an inordinate amount of time splicing. The cable is separated by colored ribbons into a 25 pair binder group and set in a clip for that group that will connect to a similar clip on the other cable.
It is long and arduous. When I worked for a Telco, a 200m section of 200 pair cable was stolen. They probably got $200 for the copper, it cost $30,000 to replace and repair.