The work Cannon was founded on
Cannon engineers, builds, splices and tests the networks that carry communication, aerial and underground, from a long haul backbone across a state to the drop at the premise. Carriers have kept Cannon on master service agreements for years at a time, from Comcast in Washington to Crown Castle in Puget Sound and Phoenix.
Aerial, underground, splice and test
Aerial plant
Aerial fiber and coax, make ready, pole installation and removal, strand and lash, overlash, transfers and joint use coordination on utility and carrier poles.
Underground plant
Duct banks, manholes and vault placement, directional drilling, trenching, rock sawing, cable plowing, asphalt and concrete restoration, and telecommunications huts and cabinets.
Cable placement
Copper and fiber cable placement by pull, blow and plow, from the backbone through distribution to the drop, with GPS as-built services on every route.
Splicing
Loose tube and ribbon splicing, FTTx splicing, high count copper splicing, emergency repair splicing and terminations.
Testing and troubleshooting
OTDR testing, certification and advanced fiber optic troubleshooting, with the trace delivered with the closeout package.
Networks
Middle mile and long haul backbone, FTTP, FTTH, FTTN, PON and multiple dwelling unit builds, data center and central office construction, and cable reclamation.
Infrastructure surveys
Base-wide and campus surveys of the plant already in the ground: conduit rodded and proofed, manholes purged, pumped and inventoried, mule tape placed, existing cable tested and every structure GPS located, so an upgrade is designed from verified conditions.
Live fiber relocation
Relocating in-service fiber out of the way of road, bridge and power projects without an outage, from raising four live cables to aerial for the SR 520 Bellevue Way overpass rebuild to a weekend relocation for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus.
Maintenance and emergency call-out
Standing construction and maintenance contracts with 24-hour emergency call-out, municipal fiber such as the City of Lakewood traffic signal interconnect, and specialty crossings including dry bores under active railroad track.
From the survey and permit to the closeout package
Cannon's engineering group carries pre-survey and design-build, site engineering, CAD drawing and permitting, including environmental approvals, easements, pole attachment and jurisdictional permits. Construction follows under the same project manager, and the route closes out with as-builts, test records and documentation the carrier can hand to operations.
Rock is a standing capability, which matters on routes through solid and cobble formations, river and wetland crossings and urban corridors that have to thread existing utilities. Inside plant scope on the same contract is delivered by BICSI certified technicians under staffed RCDDs; see inside plant.
Carriers and communities that bring the work back
Comcast
Master service agreement in Washington since 2017, building new aerial and underground plant for fiber and coax by bore, trench, open cut and strand placement, with 165+ miles engineered and 3,520+ homes passed to date.
Intermountain Infrastructure Group
Quincy to Spokane long haul route, 195 miles, with 1,032,035 feet bored and plowed and 825 vaults set.
Astound Broadband
MDU and antenna program across Puget Sound and Portland since 2016, more than 300 buildings including 454 units at Onni Towers.
Crown Castle Fiber
Program since 2018 across Puget Sound and the Phoenix metro, continuing with Zayo and Arium Networks.
Colville Confederated Tribes
Fiber to the home through NoaNet: 170+ miles, 2,200+ homes and 2,000+ pole attachments.
Yurok Telecommunications
Power, engineering design and project management on the Yurok Reservation, three tower sites across an 8+ mile route.
What comes with an outside plant contract
- Make ready and joint use coordinated with the pole owners, so strand and fiber go up on the schedule the permits allow.
- Permitting carried through to approval, including environmental, easements, pole attachment and jurisdictional permits.
- Rock, cobble and river crossings handled with owned drills, plows and excavators.
- Federal and public work delivered with certified payroll, badged crews and documentation to the owner's standard. See federal services.
- Damage prevention to Common Ground Alliance best practice and Gold Shovel Standard; the full program is on the safety page.
- As-builts, OTDR traces and closeout packages in the format operations can use, documented in Procore. See quality.
What clients say
Cannon Construction, Inc., has been providing excavation service for the Light Division of the City of Tacoma, Department of Public Utilities for the past few years. They have provided roadway crossings; both open cuts and conduit push. They have a skilled staff that provides superior work.
M. A. Fesharaki, P.E., New Services Engineering Supervisor, Tacoma Public Utilities, Light Division
Work done for Elmhurst Mutual by Cannon Construction has been exceptional. The employees work in a very professional manner and are exceptionally safety conscious. Elmhurst Mutual Power & Light Company highly recommends Cannon Construction as a contractor who can successfully construct a project in an expeditious manner and with desired results.
George Hollingsworth, Operations Manager, Elmhurst Mutual Power & Light Company
I know when I send a Cannon Construction crew to do the job I can count on quality people and quality equipment to do a professional job from start to completion.
Dave Lemke, Construction Supervisor, Viacom Cablevision, Tacoma
Thank you for sending a crew out yesterday to put the pull line in the conduit. The two of them were determined to get the job done. They were both very hard workers and cared about the quality of their work. Both were very professional people.
Wexler Property Group, Snohomish, WA
The drilling team was great to work with and I'm still impressed with a 1,000' pull back in 5 hours.
Project Engineer, City of Snoqualmie
We wanted to impart our gratitude for your prompt response in allocating and dispatching crews to assist our Comcast teams in restoring service to our customers after the bomb cyclone storm. We greatly appreciate the long hours put in, especially over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Senior Director, Construction, Comcast, Pacific Northwest Region
Have a route to build?
Send the design, the KMZ or the idea. Cannon will come back with a construction plan, a schedule and a price from engineering through splice and test.