Wiring inside site lighting pole

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Having been pretty much only on the pencil and paper side of things, I realize I'm not sure how it's actually built.

I've got a wireless access point high on a pole, 25' in the air. How does an electrician install this cat6 cable inside the pole alongside power conductors? (The current installation is ugly, with a conduit fastened to the outside of the pole all the way up).

I know in a building there are limits to how far conduit and cabling can be installed vertically without support. I don't know anyone with arms long enough to fasten supports every 6-10 feet up the inside of the pole. Does not being in a building mean it can just hang from the top (with some strain relief I would imagine) all the way down the inside of the pole?
 
The cat 6 can not be installed inside the luminare pole with out separation, the NEC considers the luminaire pole a raceway. Sleeve the Cat 6 in a length of smurf tube, type ENT (I am pointing this out as you didn't ask about it, even though its commonly done).
The conductors inside the pole do not need the vertical support for that short distance, see 300.19. At the slipfitter, use a 2" x 1/2" reducing washer with a 1/2" romex clamp, put some 33 on the wires were the wires are clamped, to hold the wires. The washer holds sits against the slip fitter on the luminaire side.
 
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