EW #1617 is available nationally and specializes in the design of fiber optic systems for electric utilities and municipalities. We've been in this business over a decade.

We also provide specialized services including: ** Fiber system failure analysis and expert witness services**

Electric field analysis for fiber systems installed on high voltage (>100 kV) lines, PLS-CADD documentation.

The principals of the company are:

All hold engineering degrees from schools such as VPI and Princeton. All have worked in the fiber optics industry over 20 years for companies such as Corning Cable Systems, Pirelli, Powermetrix and Alcoa Fujikura. Two hold patents or have patent applications underway. Two sit on the IEEE committee that writes the standards for fiber cable used in power utility applications. Fiber Planners is the provider of fiber training for such industry organizations as TVPPA (Tennessee Valley Public Power Association).

We have worked in all facets of the fiber optics industry:
* cable R&D
* manufacturing
* purchasing and vendor qualification
* general management
* quality control
* field installation
* field engineering
* installation supervision
* test instrumentation

We have worked with most of the major users of fiber cable:
* telephone companies
* military users and contractors
* cable TV companies
* local area networking users

Presently we work mostly with electric, gas and sewer utilities because of the higher margins and greater technical challenges, however we are qualified to work in all segments of the fiber cable industry.

We enjoy interesting technical challenges and we play it straight no matter who the parties are in a dispute. For this reason, we also take on failure analysis work and problem resolution.

We've are the people, utilities go to, to solve unexplained or complicated fiber problems.