Click! Network Broadband Upgrades, Tacoma

Click! Network, the City of Tacoma’s cable and broadband system, used Cannon for several phases of its plant. The broadband cable upgrade across Fife, Fircrest, Lakewood, Tacoma and University Place rock sawed 175,000 feet, placed more than 250,000 feet of innerduct and conduit and set the pedestals, handholes and vaults to serve 3,500 homes. Phase VII placed 580,000 feet of strand and hardware, 490,000 feet of aerial coax and 400,000 feet of aerial fiber, ran 23,000 feet of underground fiber through 1,540 underground enclosures, drilled 9,400 feet and proofed 110,000 feet of existing duct. Cannon also built Click!’s crossing of I-5 and Highway 16 in Tacoma.

Services Employed:

• 175,000 lineal feet of rock sawing across five cities
• More than 250,000 lineal feet of innerduct and conduit placed
• Pedestals, handholes and vaults installed to serve 3,500 homes
• Phase VII: 580,000 feet of strand and hardware, 490,000 feet of aerial coax and 400,000 feet of aerial fiber
• Phase VII: 1,540 underground enclosures and 23,000 feet of underground fiber
• Phase VII: 9,400 feet of directional drilling, 7,000 feet of trenching and 110,000 feet of existing duct proofed
• I-5 and Highway 16 crossing in Tacoma