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Rule 8 Flexible product designs for drop ducts Emtelle have a lot of fibre to the home drops. products which are designed specifically for ease of This is a fibre with copper twisted pair meaning you can actually power the electronics inside the home, or if you want to give traditional clips, this is also an option. This is a microduct bundle used inside buildings. You can branch off a microduct to go to each house, and there is also power cables in the middle, so you can daisy chain the power feed up to 8 departments in a department building, meaning your battery back-up can be put in one area rather than into each department. This is a traceable drop product. With this, you can easily find the micro duct after it’s been buried, if you ever need to find that microduct in the future. And finally, this product is one of Emtelle’s highest selling products in Europe, called PIFU, which is a pre-installed fibre unit. Basically, it is a microduct with a fibre pre-installed which can be buried directly in to the ground. If this microduct is damaged in the future, you can put on a 1 euro connector and fix the microduct, re-install the fibre bundle and re-connect your house. Whereas with a direct buried cable, you would have to dig up the cable and put in 2 spliced joints - hence why it’s very popular in Europe.