Do you guys typically use an outdoor ONT or indoor? I see pros and
cons.
If it's outdoor I assume it's POE powered and you just run CAT5 into the
house, correct?
And inside your NID enclosure I imagine you splice your drop cable into
a pigtail with a factory end. That seems like the simplest, cleanest
way to me.
On the other hand, I'm finding at least some vendors (Alphion) who only
sell indoor ONT's. So in that case, I'm thinking the splice enclosure
goes INSIDE the house because you're splicing to an indoor tight
buffered patch cable which I run to the ONT.
On the third hand, if the NID enclosure is outdoors, then I need slack
loops big enough to bring the enclosure (or splice tray) inside a truck
to work on it, whereas I could splice in the customer's basement without
an issue, so maybe I only need 10' of slack down there.
I guess I'm dumping my thoughts so those of you with more experience can
criticize my wrong headed thinking and tell me what the right choices
are before I f*** this up.
- [AFMUG] FTTH install practices Adam Moffett
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