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NEWS RELEASE <br /> April 1, 1 86 <br /> CONTACT: Bob Helling 687-5240 <br /> Sandra Gleason 687-5523 <br /> Bob Smith (AT&T, Portland) 248-6878 <br /> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> <br /> i <br /> CITY GRANTS FRANCHISE TO INSTALL FIBER OPTIC CABLE <br /> <br /> I <br /> <br /> j The ity of Eugene, Ore., is the first city in Oregon to grant a <br /> ~ franchise to AT&T to install underground lightway cable within city public <br /> ways. Th cable will link Pacific Northwest Bell's local office with the <br /> microwave relay station on Blanton Heights in Eugene. <br /> West Valley Contractors, project contractor from Campbell, Calif., <br /> will inst 11 a single, twelve-fiber lightway cable which can transmit 275,000 <br /> ~ simultane us telephone conservations. The cable is enclosed in a 1/2-inch <br /> sheathed able, placed in a one-inch conduit, which is then placed in a <br /> four-inch conduit and installed underground. The hair-thin optical fiber <br /> <br /> I!, ~ transmits voice, video and data messages, encoded as pulses of light, over <br /> long dist nces. The cable will replace more than 48,000 copper conductors. <br /> ~ The able is installed at an average depth of 42-inches. AT&T estimates <br /> if a full developed cable is dug up or damaged, it would cost approximately <br /> <br /> li $76,000 p r minute to replace the cable. Due to the installation features, <br /> ' i any damag would make it necessary to replace the entire section from manhole <br /> to manhol Since the cable must be special ordered and installed by AT&T <br /> MORE <br /> <br />