ACD constructs fiber optic facilities. Our outside plant construction group is highly experienced in the industry. We provide fiber optic construction services to a variety of customers, both in the educational, telecommunications, governmental and large businesses, and also build fiber for ACD's own use on its network, and we do direct builds to customer sites. We have our own in house engineering services that permits, builds, maintains and monitors fiber optic cable plant. We have the necessary equipment to build and maintain networks, including bucket trucks, splicing equipment, fiber meters, Optical Time Domain Reflectometers (OTDR), and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) testing equipment. We also maintain inventory of outside fiber optic cable. Typically ACD is doing several fiber build jobs per month. We have and maintain all of the various insurances needed to handle various types of construction, including rail and highway crossings.

If you need dark fiber or fiber that you need built to connect up your facilities, ACD is the perfect choice for construction services. We are low cost and have the trained personnel in house to manage and support your project or services.

Fiber projects can be complex and composed of many different types of tasks. ACD can manage the entire project for you thereby removing the burden of dealing with the many tasks, some of which are:

• Needs assessment
• Detailed engineering: locate existing fiber, fiber joints, type and size of fiber, optimal routes.
• Determine and obtain needed permits.
• Deal with "make ready" items that include relocation of lines, equipment, additional routes, environmental change, and costs.
• Identify premise entry locations.
• Monitor construction: above and below ground.
• Install premise equipment.
• Connect fiber to premise equipment.
• Test, tune, go live and support.
• Turn up services, i.e. telephone, data transit and Internet access, with video forthcoming

We can connect your multiple locations to our fiber network and provide private and secure, data, voice and video between the locations, and from the network to the outside Internet and telecom world. Additional locations may be integrated to your network using other media such as DSL, T1s, wireless and cable. Our MPLS based (see other pages) will make your wide area network easy to manage and scalable.