Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Mon Nov 27 14:12:05 UTC 2023

If I was building a house I'd just get some 1" conduit from the outside to
the inside.  Put it in a NEMA box.  That solves the problem forever.

As a fiber ISP, and assuming you're doing your own WiFi in the house, you
can do conduit inside or we can just run the fiber.  We don't want to run
up/down walls and such.  99% of our installs are through the exterior wall
and then a u6x covers the house.  We run fiber

If you're in a cableCo area just run coax to get to your modem/router
situation.

I'm not sure what the Cat5 is for outside.  Ethernet isn't going to work
and DSL is nearly dead already.

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 2:33 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

> Thanks Brandon Martin,
>
> I agree 1-inch smurf tube is overkill for FTTH. From my quick research
> into all things FTTH, which I didn't know anything a week ago :-) ...
>
> The regulators in other countries still believe they will create
> competition.  The 25mm/32mm access duct (I'm going to make up a new
> term, and just call it "access duct", i.e. that smurf tube, conduit,
> pathway thing) is big enough for either a fiber microduct, cat 6 copper
> or RG6 coax.  Even a 12/24/48-volt DC power cable for active
> equipment at the NID/demarc.  The regulators keep all their competitors
> happy by not favoring any particular technology.
>
> In practice, the countries with the biggest FTTH deployments have very
> little FTTH competition at the physical access layer.
>
> Microduct, microduct, microduct is what the dominant access provider
> wants in those countries.  The dominant carrier wants builders to install
> "direct fiber" or "bypass fiber" microducts in new construction directly
> from every dwelling (house or apartment) to the carrier's central access
> point for the builder's development (apartment buildings or neighborhood).
>
> Microduct only means no pre-built access for other competitors.
>
> Apartment construction in Asia is very large. Several countries are
> also adding in-building mobile/wireless service requirements for new MDU
> building construction.
>
>
> My interpretation, not understanding the country-specific FTTH fights...
>
> The regulators appear to say, Ok, dominant carrier - you can have
> "direct fiber" microduct but builders must also provide an "open
> competition" 25mm/32mm access duct from the building entrance point (NID)
> or apartment consolidation points (CP) to the individual distribution box
> (DD) inside each dwelling.
>
> Just my uninformed take, corrections welcome.
>
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