“A micro-trench is typically 30-50 millimetres wide and can be up to 400 millimetres deep, although usually about 200 millimetres for fibre purposes,” said the company.

Using specially designed saw blades, the Ditch Witch MT12 microtrencher cuts through asphalt for fiber-optic cable installation—from 0.75 to 1.25 inches wide and up to 12 inches deep—in a single pass.

Novel technology known as micro-trenching is being used by the City of Cape Town to install fibre-optic cable ducts in the Cape Town CBD. These high-tech machines, being used as part of a pilot ...

Micro-trenching is a fibre-laying technique that uses specialised machines to cut a narrow and shallow trench into a road’s surface, alongside the pavement where the curb and the tarmac meet, ...

It described shallow trenching technologies as "high risk", but said there might be situations where micro-trenching could be used without having a detrimental knock-on effect for other utilities.

Workers will use a technique called micro-trenching to install Lancaster's broadband system. It's expected to cause little disruption.

When The Roanoke Valley Broadband Authority begins laying conduit and fiber downtown in the next week, workers will use an innovative method that is less disruptive to businesses and residents ...

Designed for micro-trenching and utility work, the Mobile Mud Hog Trench Mixer features controlled material flow. ... Rebar Cutter and #10 (1-1/4 in.) Rebar Cutting Blade. ...

Local news News “Affordable high-speed optic fibre internet” approved for Tshwane homes Micro-trenching is non-intrusive, generally cheaper and less destructive to the metro’s infrastructure.

Oxfordshire-based rural fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband specialist Gigaclear has called on Canadian micro-trenching specialist Lite Access to help roll out ultrafast services to 10,000 ...