They change to cat 5 on the outside of the house On Feb 9, 2015 7:37 AM, "That One Guy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you protect the fiber from the customer in the house as far as > keeping them from sullying up the glass connecting and disconnecting it? Do > you find as high an incidence of cut fiber in the home as with Ethernet > runs or do customers seem to be more wary of the fiber run? > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jason Pond <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> SEE INLINE RED >> >> 1. Would you be able to make those power points available to the list? I >> LEAVE THIS TO STERLING AND CHUCK TO POST >> >> 2. What all equipment do you actually have at the house? Are you running >> the fiber up to the house and then making it the customers responsibility >> from there? Or are you running some interior Ethernet cable for people? >> So this depends a little on setup but for the most part you need to have >> an outside NID box, and maybe outside ONT for a GPON setup, In Sterling's >> case he was putting a RB250GS in an outdoor enclosure and ethernet inside >> to a WiFi router I think of customer choosing. We are taking a different >> approach and putting a RB2011 inside with Fiber going all the way to the >> inside of the house and managing the customer router for them. >> >> 3. Could I get a rough list of what is actually going in the neighborhood >> peds? >> There are pedestals/vault and cabinets. Inside a peds/vault there is >> just fiber maybe a splice case or MST box depending on the design. >> Cabinets on the other hand need equipment to do the following: Access to >> you network and to feed your network out to the customer. I.E. EDGE/CORE >> Router hooked to fiber or wireless devices to receive the internet / >> network feed and if you are doing an Active Ethernet setup like Sterling >> and Chuck Hogg you need multi-port SFP switches. Each SFP port goes to a >> customer. Single fiber to each household / business. >> >> 4. Are you still able to use Powercode (or whatever you are using for >> your wireless customers) for your billing/monitoring/rates? Or did you have >> to get a secondary system to handle the fiber customers? >> Powercode is just a customer management system w/ billing so yes you can >> use it and you can keep track of all of your details in it also. I.E. Tube >> # / Color / Fiber strand to which customer and what port they are plugged >> into the switch >> >> 5. How are you keeping track of where your underground facilities are for >> years down the road? Are you using GPS coordinates at endpoints and service >> connections, measurements off of cross streets, or just planning to be able >> to use a locator to find it? >> Some are using google maps, others surveying, we will be using a GPS >> tracking software kept in a database tracked through iDevices with GPS >> bluetooth "pucks" this will be exported into google maps and KML format >> when done for future needs. I will have this system available for use >> later in the year with a lot more details after our build gets underway. >> >> Just like in wireless you can skin the cat a million ways everyone has a >> different take and we hope to help anywhere we can as our project gets >> underway this summer. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Jason Pond >> Grizzly Internet, Inc >> >> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Trevor Bough <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey guys, I really enjoyed the fiber build out forum and have come up >>> with a few questions since lunch yesterday: >>> >>> 1. Would you be able to make those power points available to the list? >>> 2. What all equipment do you actually have at the house? Are you running >>> the fiber up to the house and then making it the customers responsibility >>> from there? Or are you running some interior Ethernet cable for people? >>> 3. Could I get a rough list of what is actually going in the >>> neighborhood peds? >>> 4. Are you still able to use Powercode (or whatever you are using for >>> your wireless customers) for your billing/monitoring/rates? Or did you have >>> to get a secondary system to handle the fiber customers? >>> 5. How are you keeping track of where your underground facilities are >>> for years down the road? Are you using GPS coordinates at endpoints and >>> service connections, measurements off of cross streets, or just planning to >>> be able to use a locator to find it? >>> >> >> > > > -- > All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the > parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you > can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not > use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925 >
