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DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR

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Introduction:
This document describes design requirements and guidelines for Access Network
Development (AND+) for implementation of FTTH in a district. These guidelines do not limit
integrators knowledge and experience to propose a better, economical, and efficient
solution for the deployment of FTTH. Integrators may suggest and prepare a very effective
plan that should cover both technical and economic aspects; as an alternate solution.

Design Overview:
FTTH customer connectivity is suggested as follows;

1. OLT will be installed in POP and distance from POP to customer building shall be within the
range of 20km.
2. Two types of Fiber Distribution Terminal (FDT) shall be deployed; single operator
independent cabinet or colocation shared cabinet. Mobily shall inform the integrators at the
beginning of design that which cabinet shall be used in any particular district.
a. Single Operator independent Cabinet:
i. The capacity of this cabinet shall be 21U, in which a) 12U shall be utilized for
installing 4x144 port ODF or any combination of ODF having total 576 ports
available for termination of fibers. B) 3U shall be reserved for installing
Splitter chassis which can accommodate 18 splitters cartage. C) 3U shall be
reserved for installing 1x144 ports ODF or any combination for the
connectivity of backhauling cable from POP. The remaining 3U shall be
reserved for any future demand. This FDT shall be connected from the POP
with full diversity.
b. Co-location Shared Cabinet:
i. The capacity of this cabinet shall be 26U, in which a) 18U shall be utilized for
installing 6x144 ports ODF or any combination of ODF having total 864 ports
available for termination of fibers. B) 3U shall be reserved for installing
Splitter chassis which can accommodate 18 splitters cartage. C) 3U shall be
reserved for installing 1x144 ports ODF or any combination for the
connectivity of backhauling cable from POP. The remaining 2U shall be
reserved for any future demand. This FDT shall be connected from the POP
with full diversity.

3. Customer buildings (CB) will be connected from Fiber Distribution Terminal without
protection and distance from FDT to customer building should be within 500m radius; the
actual length could be more. Exceptions shall be reviewed during design phase and will be
settled case by case. Each building will be connected with one cable.

4. The cable feeding FDT from POP shall be called “FEEDER CABLE”; Cable from Street Cabinet
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be called “DISTRIBUTION CABLE” and cable from FAT to customer building shall be called
“DROP CABLE”.
5. Maximum two level of splitting is suggested; One at FDT and second in customer building in
case of Multi-dwelling unit (MDU). The maximum splitting ratio will be 32.

OSP Design Details:

The scope of OSP design will cover the complete site survey of the district, collecting data of
customer in mobily prescribed form, location of FDT, trench route and duct configuration, cable
layout, fiber schematics and FDT configuration. Mobily will identify the existing route and nearest
POP to connect the FDT. Integrators may suggest the route with full diversity to connect FDT and
shall submit their requirement of fiber in FDT. All design work shall have minimum 25% more
capacity than at present requirement.

Fiber Distribution Terminal (FDT) to Fiber Access Terminal (FAT).

 The trench size will be as follows;

Width = 20cm.
Depth = 65cm.
Trench will be backfilled by full concrete . The strength of concrete shall be 250
kg/cm2 at 28 days. Paving and milling shall be done as per Municipality or MOT
standards.

 Duct Material:

Main duct: 12 No. HDPE(3x4); (PE-100, PN-16, SDR-11) duct 50mm OD, 40.8mm ID, wall
thickness 4.6mm and 2x20mm for each building connectivity.

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 Four black ducts are dedicated for common infrastructure, whereas four blue ducts are
dedicated for operator-1 and four orange ducts are dedicated for operator-2.

Poke out: Two 20mm duct shall be installed for each building lot. Duct specification;
HDPE (PE-100, PN-16, SDR-11) duct 20mm OD, mm ID 16.2, wall thickness 1.9mm and
2x20mm for each building connectivity.

 One duct shall be used for common infrastructure cable and second duct shall be kept
as spare for future use.

 Spacers will be installed with the duct at every 1.5m to keep the duct straight and in
position as shown in the Fig 1.

Figure-1

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Bayanat/Mobily = Orange color
Operator#1 = Blue

FAT to Customer Building:

 The trench size will be as follows;

Width = 13cm.
Depth = 50cm.
Trench will be backfilled by full concrete . The strength of concrete shall be 250
kg/cm2 at 28 days. Paving and milling shall be done as per Municipality or MOT
standards.

 Maximum 12 buildings shall be connected from one handhole/Mini Manhole including

vacant lots, but it can go up to 15 buildings in special cases only.

 Duct Material:

Maximum 24 (4x6) duct shall be placed in trench; HDPE (PE-100, PN-16, SDR-11) duct
20mm OD, mm ID 16.2, wall thickness 1.9mm and 2x20mm for each building
connectivity.

 One duct shall be used for common infrastructure and second duct shall be kept as
spare for future use.

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 Spacers will be installed with the duct at every 1.5m to keep the duct straight and in
position as shown in the Fig 2.

Figure-2

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Offset Trenching:
 The trench size will be as follows;

Width = 9cm
Depth = 40cm
Trench will be backfilled by full concrete. The strength of concrete shall be 250
kg/cm2 at 28 days. Paving and milling shall be done as per Municipality or MOT
standards.

 Duct Material:

HDPE; (PE-100, PN-16, SDR-11) duct 20mm OD, 16.2mm ID, wall thickness 1.9mm. Each
building will have two pipes with U-guard installed with building wall.

 Refer fig. 3

Figure-3

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Installation of U-guard on Customer wall:

 U-guard shall be installed on customer wall to protect the poke out

pipe. The height of the U-guard shall be minimum 1.5 meter from the
finished grade level.

 The clamps shall be securely placed with Aluminum screws.

 Following shows the details of installation.

 Ref fig. 4

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Figure-4

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Mini-manholes and Two cover hand holes:
 Mini Manhole-Type 1
 Single round cover precast Mini Manhole is suggested to install in access network for
30m and more width of roads.
 It will also be installed in those locations where a third line of duct will join in
HH/MH.
 It can also be installed in those locations where it requires for design requirements.
 The distance between manholes shall be minimum 50m and maximum 300m. The
size will be as follows;
 Outer dimension: 155(L)x155(W)x199(H)cm
 Inner Dimension : 120(L)x120(W)x120(H)cm
 Refer fig. 5
 18x 50 0r 63mm opening will be provided on two walls for main duct termination
and a rectangular opening shall be provided for poke out termination to
accommodate minimum 18x20mm duct on two walls.
 The cover of the hand hole will be of heavy duty with minimum 35 ton loading.
 Please refer Mobily Approved drawings.

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Section A-A

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Figure-5

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Two cover Handhole:

 Two cover precast handhole is suggested to install in access network for all streets less than
30m width roads.
 Two cover Handhole shall be used either at the end of the trench or in a straight duct for
breaking the length.
 The size will be as follows;

 Outer dimension: 155(L)x100(W)x95(H)cm

 Inner Dimension : 125(L)x 80(W)x(80H)cm
 Refer fig.6
 Refer also Mobily approved drawings.

 16x 50 0r 63mm opening will be provided on two walls for main duct termination
and a rectangular opening shall be provided for poke out termination to
accommodate minimum 18x20mm duct on two walls.
 The cover of the hand hole will be of heavy duty with minimum 40 ton loading.
 Maximum one joint closure will be installed in one hand hole. (Please consider in
your design)

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Figure-6

 Manhole-Type A

Type-A manholes shall be installed in front of FDTs. The maximum distance from FDT
to Manhole shall be 5 meters. In case of utilities or any other reason, it can be
extend up to 7 meters with the consultation of Mobily Implementation team.

Refer fig.7

igure-7

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Fiber Street Cabinet:

 Fiber Street Cabinet (FDT) shall be installed in the area of Mosque /

School / Park.

 The pedestal of FDT shall be pre-cast and approved Mobily design

from Mobily approved supplier.

 FDT configuration shall be as follows:

1. Single Operator independent Cabinet:

Two independent FDTs shall be installed beside each other as shown in below layout plan. A
type-A manhole shall be installed in front of the FDT. The common cables from the customer
end; which will have dedicated tubes for each operator shall be separated in manhole and will
extend to each operator cabinet. Two options are possible as follows:

Option-1:
Using a joint closure and separating tubes inside the joint closure and extending tubes through
flex pipe from Manhole to each operator cabinet. Maximum four cables can accommodate in
one joint closure. See pictures below.

Option-2:
Using a tie cable between the manhole and FDT and splicing in a joint closure in Type-A
manhole. Two cables can be spliced in one joint closure.

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Typical Installation details for two independent cabinets

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Protection Post Installation details

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Tube separating in Joint Closure:

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2. Co-location shared cabinet:

Over all view

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Internal configuration

 The Cabinet shall contain three compartments; the center

compartment shall be for cable entrance from the Manhole. The left
and right compartment shall be dedicated for the operators.

 Each operator compartment shall have the capacity of 26U in which

6x144 ports ODF (18U) shall be reserved for customer connectivity;
1x144 ports ODF (3U) shall be reserved for POP connectivity; 1x3U
space shall be reserved for splitter chassis.

 Maximum 12 cables of 144 fibers are expected for customer

connectivity. These cables will enter in the center compartment and
shall be split in two and half will enter in Operator#1 compartment
and another half will enter in Operator#2 compartment.

 Separate access shall be provided for each operator compartment for

their own cables.

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Installation of Cables from FAT to Customer Building:

 The following cable installation is suggested from FAT to customer building;

 Single Dwelling Unit (SDU):

o 12 Fiber non-metallic cables shall be installed for SDU. Fiber#1-6 shall be

dedicated to Operator#1 and fiber#7-12 shall be dedicated to Operator#2.
o 2 Fiber will be Spliced in the Joint Closure (FAT) with distribution cable; and 2
fibers shall be terminated in Mobily-ODB; remaining will be spare.

 Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU):

o 24 Fiber non-metallic cables shall be installed for MDU. Fiber#1-12 shall be

dedicated to Operator#1 and fiber#13-24 shall be dedicated to Operator#2.
o 4 Fiber will be Spliced in the Joint Closure (FAT) with distribution cable and 4
fibers shall be terminated in Mobily ODB. Second operator shall install his
own ODB to extend the services to customers.

Installation of Distribution cable:

 144 fiber cables preferably shall be installed in span between FDT to FAT as
distribution cable.
 Each cable shall be equally divided among the two operators; incase of 144
fibers cable with 12 tubes; half of tubes (tube#1-6) shall be dedicated to
Operator#1 and another half of tubes (tube#7-12) shall be dedicated to
Operator#2.
 Drop cable (from FAT to CB) shall be spliced in respective dedicated tubes of
Operators.
 25% of the fiber in each cable shall be kept spare.
 It is also recommended to keep full tube dedicated in each handhole/manhole
wherever is possible but not to lose many fiber in general.
 Maximum 12x144 cable shall be designed to cover one FDT boundary.
 All cables from customer end shall be brought in Type-A Manhole close to FDT
and shall be separated as per assigned tubes and left coil in protection tubes.
 Each operator shall be responsible for extending their cable in single operator
independent cabinet. Whereas customers cable shall be extended to the middle
chamber of co-located cabinet and tubes shall be separated and shall kept in
each operator compartment.
 Four middle black ducts are dedicated for customer connectivity. In case of
more than four cables required then use micro-ducts to accommodate more
cables required for customer. Four 14/11.5mm ducts can be installed in one
50/40.8mm ducts. Use micro cable in micro ducts.

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 Micro cable shall be installed in micro ducts; the OD of 144F micro cable shall be
of 9.2mm dia.

Fiber Schematics:
 Fiber schematic shall be designed as per above guidelines of Distribution cable
and for SDU and MDU connectivity with number of fibers and shall keep 25%
spare fiber along the route.
 Fiber schematic drawing shall show the splicing details and termination in ODFs
for both operators.
 The fiber schematic shall show building connectivity by building number, drop
cable fiber number, distribution cable fiber number and its termination port in
ODF in the FDT.
 Below is the labeling guideline for fiber schematics.

Building /ODB INFORMATION:

1234 - 24F - S/M - 1/4/8/16/32

XXXX - XXF - X - XX

Building Code

Cable Count

Building Type

Splitter Output
Count

DISTRIBUTION / DROP CABLE SPLICING DETAIL:

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01 - 01 - D001, D002, R01, R02

XX - XX - DXXX, DXXX, RXX, RXX

Cable No.

Tube No.

D stands for Distribution Fiber No.

R stands for Drop Fiber No.

ODF TERMINATION DETAIL:

M/I - 1 - 112, 113

X - X - XXX, XXX

Operator
M=Mobily
I= ITC

ODF No.

ODF Port No.

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ODB Termination:

ODB at SDU:

 Four port ODB shall be installed in SDU-R and SDU-C. The two fibers (1, 7) of 12 fiber
cable shall be spliced with pigtails at ODB port# 1 and 2. Port#1 will be for Mobily and
port#2 will be for second operator. The remaining fibers shall be properly coiled in splice
tray. Fiber#1-6 is reserved for Mobily and Fiber#7-12 is reserved for second operator.

ODB at MDU:
o MDU with four customers:
 Option-1
 8 ports ODB with 1:4 splitters pre-connectorized shall be installed;
Fiber#1 of 24F cable shall be spliced with input of the splitter.
Port#7 and 8 will be spliced with fiber# 13 and 14 direct to pigtails
and remaining fibers shall be kept spare in splice tray. Fiber#1-12
is reserved for Mobily and Fiber#13-24 is reserved for second
operator.
 Option-2:
 4 ports ODB with 1:4 splitters pre-connectorized having additional
ports available with pigtails or slot is available for installing the
pigtails shall be installed; Fiber#1 of 24F cable shall be spliced with
input of the splitter. Port#7 and 8 will be spliced with fiber# 13
and 14 direct to pigtails and remaining fibers shall be kept spare in
splice tray. Fiber#1-12 is reserved for Mobily and Fiber#13-24 is
reserved for second operator.

o MDU with 8 and up to 15 customers:

 8 ports ODB with 1:8 splitters pre-connectorized (usually having 4
additional ports provision) shall be installed; Fiber#1 of 24F cable
shall be spliced with input of the splitter. Port#11 and 12 will be
spliced with fiber# 13 and 14 direct to pigtails and remaining
fibers shall be kept spare in splice tray. Fiber#1-12 is reserved for
Mobily and Fiber#13-24 is reserved for second operator.

o MDU with 16 customers:

 24 ports ODB with 1:16 splitters pre-connectorized shall be
installed; Fiber#1 of 24F cable shall be spliced with input of the
splitter. Port#23 and 24 will be spliced with fiber# 13 and 14 direct
to pigtails and remaining fibers shall be kept spare in splice tray.

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Fiber#1-12 is reserved for Mobily and Fiber#13-24 is reserved for
second operator.
o MDU with 32 customers:
 48 ports ODB with 2:32 splitters pre-connectorized shall be
installed; Fiber#1 and 2 of 24F cable shall be spliced with inputs of
the splitter. Port#47 and 48 will be spliced with fiber# 13 and 14
direct to pigtails and remaining fibers shall be kept spare in splice
tray. Fiber#1-12 is reserved for Mobily and Fiber#13-24 is reserved
for second operator.

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