Splitters are waaay small. Smaller than a standard house key. What you are looking at is an MST terminal, looks like 8 ports. There can be a splitter inside of that yes. You can have the MST with 8 fibers splice to another 8 fibers or you can have what is in your picture have 1 fiber in, split 1x8, and then have 8 ports out for the installers to simply plug in to.
If that MST is a 1x8, you can have a 1x4 before it, between the MST and OLT. That makes for OLT -> 1x4 splitter -> 1x8 splitter/MST. That is still a 1x32 split. On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought PON used like 16:1 or 32:1 splitters, and in this photo, I > assumed that’s what the black boxes were. > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2025 10:16 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] how is underground FTTH done? > > > > Don't assume that about aerial. That's not how it works. Don't think > about it in terms of taps. > > > > Generally speaking, installations are PON. What we do is design the fiber > so we can hook up 100% of homes. We assign a color to every house. > > > > The first thing to think about is that you have to access the individual > strand out of the cable, be it 12/24/48/144/etc. That is done with a > SpliceCase or you splice on an MST for an ez mode plug. At Imagine we only > splice - no connectors, no MST, no plugs, etc. > > > Second thing is that when there's a cable up and down the road, you just > need access to it through the case/MST from the house. This can be from > the house to the handhole (concrete box in the ground) or you can run it > from the house to the handhole through some 1.25" duct to the next handhole > where there is one case. > > > > I can show you what it looks like if you don't get it yet. > > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > The fiber train left without me, so maybe someone here can help me > understand how the physical installation is typically done. > > > > I’ve seen aerial fiber and it’s pretty straightforward, I see splitters up > on poles maybe at each intersection, and to hook up a customer, they run a > drop wire from the nearest splitter to the house. If take rate is better > than expected or a new house is built, worst case I assume they just add a > splitter. > > > > But I also see FTTH deployments going in where they are boring for duct in > the ROW and putting a little handhole in front of every house. How does > this work? Are they using taps instead of splitters? If not, when they > get a customer install order, do they pull his drop cable through all the > handholes to a splitter? That doesn’t seem feasible. Are they dedicating > a strand to each house and pulling the main cable out each time and > splicing to that strand? And what if they estimate the take rate wrong, or > a new house is built? > > > > There’s probably a simple explanation and once someone enlightens me it > will be a Duh! moment. > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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