Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Sun Nov 19 21:54:41 UTC 2023

Of course, every local carrier will be different, what are the current 
preferences for pre-wiring a customer demarc (NID, the box that hangs 
on the outside of the house, whatever the service provider calls it now)?

1. Nothing - telco/cable will do whatever the heck they want and wreck 
the outside of the house anyway

2. Smurf tube from demarc to central distribution point with an interior 
power outlet near the demarc

3. ANSI TIA-570 prewire (2 x CAT 6, 2 x RG 6) from demarc to central 
distribution point (low-voltage contractors don't use UV-rated cable 
for the demarc, and the jacket is trash in a few years)

In the past, I found if I made the pre-wire look nice and easy for the 
field technician, they usually made the extra effort to keep their work 
clean and tidy.