Fiber Optic Network Install
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2023
- Ting fiber optic network installation in Culver City California.
Special thanks to assistance from Ting Internet, HP Communications, Latlong Infrastructure, @pdsconnect403 and @zion-communication
I don’t know why the CZcams Gods decided I should watch this but here I am and loving it.
They work in strange ways
The CZcams algorithm doesn't make mistakes. It knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
@@BuckingHorse-Bull How is that so true 😂
@@LeifMaginnis brother it is hard working this?
Facts. Now I wanna do this
I worked on the team that did the fiber design for this project. Absolutely loved getting to work with the team for this work to help connect Culver City!
Would love to ask some questions about this.. How do I contact you?
Where I am, all this fiber work is run under the boulevard between the street and the sidewalk. Why run it under the road? is it because if city rules? Seems way more expensive running it this way.
@@Tribbatrot would love to see an interview with you, how its done, your experience, issues you have come across, do people that you like the gods you are ETC
@@LeifMaginnis please interview and upload it
@@Tribbatrot I would guess its so heavy storm and transients wont damage it
I'm a lineman for the phone company and we run fiber all the time, although we don't use anything as advanced as this, half of it we still pull by hand or lash up to the old telephone poles.
This is a great video! It’s so hard finding videos of utilities in the field doing all this stuff with explanations.
yes,i agree with you.
Much respect and thanks for those who build the layout, engineering documents and gaining permits to install fiber optics for residents who dont have it. Its very difficult to get access to run fiber where people dont want cables on their buildings, poles near-around their properties, or having a street closed or disrupted to allow the install of the network. We have come a long way and for those who are now getting access to fiber welcome to the club!
yeah,thank everyone who fight for fttx and better life !
I remember when splicing a fibre involved manually polishing/inspecting/re-polishing both ends prior to fusing. The advent of the automated tools for doing it was a huge step forward.
So, how did you cut it? I imagine they refined that part as well as the plasma..
@@LeifMaginnis There was a diamond blade that cleaved it. Took a great deal of practice to get it flattish. If not then a great deal of pollishing was needed to get the end optically flat.
@@daveturnbull7221thats bullshit, you can easily break with no defects without any external tools, its a matter of an hour practice. Hardest part is fusing two ends together on a manual welder or using those awful mechanical connectors without any precise tools
Fiber terminated in the field for residential or commercial services is still cleaved and fusion spliced or terminated with factory made connectors
@@jacobgoodman7987 where I live they just cleave it and put a connector at the end
Thanks for putting a spotlight on the unsung heroes that do the dirty work for our convenience
I had fiber installed last year. Fiber all the way to the box next to my router. Some contractors use the Ditch Witch a machine that lays the conduit underground. Amazing how they can do that for a fairly long distance, going under other utilities along the way. I have one of those panels in my front yard, and I actually saw them put that big cylinder down in the hole. In the house it was just being careful not to bend the fiber at to sharp an angle as it goes though the basement. There is actually a large rolled up fiber roll put into the rafters. So different from the regular copper cable, and not something I can splice like copper.
Yeah, there’s a big piece of fiberglass at the core of cable to keep the glass from bending, there’s a brief pic in the vid
You can't splice it because you need a very expensive fusion splicer 😁 our new 90 series fujikaura is like 10 grand for the splicer alone, I'm not even counting the box it sits in!
Spectrum simply hung a fiber cable from the pole. City living is complicated.
xD
Just went through existing conduit here
Suburban fiber laying sure has to be easier than city installing. Apartment buildings, endless underground utilities, traffic, etc. Most suburban fiber laying is underground installed., or utility poles which are already in place.
Yeah no telephone poles here though
It's so much easier and cheaper that's why both laying the fibre optic cables and repairing damaged cables later on. Imagine the added cost of drilling through roads and driveways for thousands of neighborhoods in the city.
This is an absolutely wonderful video! I remember years back when guys that worked with fiber were highly specialized and cost a fortune to hire when splicing needed to be done. I guess with the explosion of fiber optic networks - companies needed a way to make it so more people could do the job while retaining the same level of quality. And those devices they were using look like exactly what the doctor ordered.
Proof that the Internet is a series of tubes.
Thanks for the explanation, I always wondered how the fibers were linked together...amazing process and ofc much respect for the workers doing all the hard work needed to get this awesome tech into our homes.
Thanks for this video! It's great to see the professionalism with which these guys are pushing it!
Used to do a lot of fiber repair jobs and believe me it was a royal pain too. We were often in areas where we didn’t have a machine to help pull the cable so we’d end up pulling 2 miles of cable by hand. Though I imagine that our job was much more exciting than being the splicer that sat in a trailer for the next 12 hours
At least those trailers are air conditioned 😂
Fascinating work. I bullied ISP's in my country to get fiber and after two years of begging I managed to get an ISP with Fiber in my building. Soooo goood.
Country or county? In my country our representatives loathe us and just take bribes to keep big cable companies as monopolies. Doesn't matter how much we complain. Hell, in the next town over, zoning went after some autistic kid who had a duck as an emotional support animal. They kept coming and coming at him despite MAJOR backlash from the community. I think they actually backed off once it got on the news.
As someone who is working at Data Center industry and worked with lots of fibres in my lifetime, nobody has explained better than this video. kudos!
Thank you for this video, I love watching utility work and it's cool seeing how things are just done.
The way they are laying the cable is called 'micro trenching'. And it is considered to be relatively cheap and fast. But also causes a lot of trouble in the long run because the time will come when the street has to be redone or something and then you have all those cables embedded in the concrete / asphalt.
On the other hand doing it the proper way by digging trenches on the sidewalk and putting the cables deep into the ground is very costly and takes a lot longer... Pick your poison
That's what I thought only 8 inches deep Sounds dump to me. That street didn't look to new to me.
Then you had Google with their "nano trenching" in Louisville KY. I have heard it was 2-4 inches deep, needless to say it failed for tons of reasons (including just frost damage, let alone digging / road stress). They then just nopped out of the area and left Louisville to deal with it.
When they redo the street, they won't go down 8"
@@LeifMaginnis you haven't seen the potholes in my neighborhood....lol
The process works/worked a bit differently out where I live. They didn't bury the lines in the street, they dug through dirt. Practical Engineering did a video about steering a drill beneath the surface, and I instantly recognized the machine demonstrated in that video as the one that ran the fiber lines all around the city and in my neighborhood.
My line was spliced off the main that ran through the front lawn of my neighbor across the street, then was run beneath the pavement to get to my lawn near the curb. From there, they ran it to the house, and used a Ditch Witch to bury it beneath the lawn.
But in other places around here, usually the more rural areas, the fiber lines are literally run using telephone lines. My grandma got fiber before I did because her phone company ran the line to her house along the telephone poles.
That was an excellent comprehensive overview of the process. Right to the point and covered the entire process with great detail!
All that work so you can troll online.
Gonna get fiber installed to my house next weekend. Very excited!
Very interesting to watch. Looks way more advanced and alot more machines then when fiber optic lines where run to my neighborhood...
Perfect timing for this video, there is some conduit lying in our back yard that will soon hold fiber for our neighborhood in the coming months!
Great explanation of what’s going on in our neighborhood right now, it’s only 2023....
I was a bit skeptical about 4rabet at first, but man, the design won me over 🤩 it's so sleek and modern plus the colors are easy on the eyes.
Got fiber installed in my little town of 150 people last year. Makes a huge difference in internet quality. Only had wireless 4G available before that, which wasn't bad, but just couldn't get the speeds we got now. Got a 200meg connection now. Sure, no way near as fast as ya can get in the big cities, but it's a godsend compared to what we had before. Plus, literally live in the middle of nowhere where we have to drive over 30 minutes at highway speeds just to go grocery shopping, so I'm not complaining, lol. Anyway, it's neat seeing a close up of how the process works.
that's honestly insane... how do you find work?
@@kriss7306 that is crazy where u live bro?
I was pleasantly surprised at the quality and concise informative nature of this video. Nicely done.
Started my IT jobs 2 weeks ago , thanks for this CZcams 😂
i was an intern in a telecom company and it was fun working with those specialiazed tools such as the splicing machine
pulling fiber optic cables with your bare hands surely is a great idea - and of course that wont damage them at all. Zero damage!
Sending light all over underground so cool. Great video as well - Cheers
Only 1.2K views? Not for long. This is a great behind the sceens of fiber!
You called it
Watching this from my modest 1gb/1gb fiber internet. Feels amazing to finally have fiber.
Really awesome video! Thanks!
Wow great job showing how it's done!
That was so informative and quick. Nice vid!
when you think a video has to be 10-20 years old but is actually 2 months old
Too high quality to be 20 years old (atleast for a non cinema/tv production)
@@fayenotfaye nothing gets past you.
The plasma arc fusion process is wonderful
Very informative and high quality!
I did this work in Manteca CA.
Worked with a lot of cool dudes. I came from an IT dept for a change of work env and boy did I get it. Very fun but you’ll break yourself doing this as a career.
I don't know how I ended up here but man this was worth it.
youtube recommend this to me as there’s people inside my house installing it. now i can kinda follow along!
Fibre is widely rolled out in south africa. Looking at this reminded me how much digging they did when they were doing fibre in our country
Thank you so much sir. I really appreciate your time and effort for making this video and spreading your wisdom to the people around the world. God bless ❤❤❤
Now wonder it's so expensive and takes so long. Here in the UK, since about the 80's most of the telephone cables are in shared ducts under the sidewalks, older than that is on overhead wires. Fibre is pulled through the ducts with ropes and rods, or added to the existing overhead poles. They did my whole street in a morning.
Real professional work
Wow this is an excellent video. Well edited and its amazing to see the whole end to end process.
Awesome video, it shows everything in great detail
Nice video bro good electrical engineer so nice 👍
great content, more of it please !
Nice informative video.
OH MYGOSH I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE THIS 3:38 YOU ROCK!!!
That was so informative and quick. Nice vid!. This was surprisingly super informative.
That is time-consuming work. Great job to the ones who do it. They look very professional compared to the ones I have seen.
great video, thanks !
I work with fiber on the local network/server scale and I have to scared I nearly died when I saw the way they were handling your tubes. Grateful to know that they were just tubes lol.
This was surprisingly super informative
An interesting video. I live in the UK. In 2022 we had the cables installed under the pavement but not run into homes. A year later we are still waiting for fibre broadband 🤷🏻♂️
Brilliant video execution!
Informative video . Love from goa - india 🇮🇳
SW FL. All the streets around here have culverts and lots of dirt. They pulled miles of fiber. Any day now.
so much complex work!
Awesome video. Love it!
Amazing explanation
Glad you liked it
The videos are getting stronger
It's really neat to watch them build out buried Optical Networks. My neighborhood is from the mid 1950's so all utilities are run overhead in the alley ways. AT&T has the PON up on the poles.
yeah my county has the same setup, they run ethernet from the gateway out to the homes.. and the county across the river from me has the fiber to the house and gateway installed outside the house.. I prefer the latter but I am just happy to have fiber.
I wish our taxes went to programs to get this installed throughout the US. Much needed. Rid the Comcast/ATT monopolies.
Now that was a great video, I just did one on my channel about fiber, great video!
Wow so much work for one household.
In Poland, fiber optics reach homes from pillars. Installation is often free. Because of this, I have a 1Gbps fiber optic cable in a house in the countryside.
In the US our politicians write bills that send billions in grants to the states and then it ends up in the pockets of the same huge corporations that push to keep everything on copper.
If you think deploying fiber is complicated and expensive, wait till you find out about deploying copper phone lines and power lines. Somehow we managed to get the latter to every home in the US...
@@grabasandwich Not true mostly due Fiber installment has be approved by local government mostly local city officials sometimes they get bought off easily ( favoritism) plus fiber all over the USA is more complicated due not all areas are created equal some geo areas can different depend when you live plus USA is big country compare to some European or Small Asian Countries
Thanks! The cable installation and termination was the part I missed. In the town of Taylor, Tx, Samsung is building a new chip plant. That makes houses, duplexes, and apartments in nearby towns, such as Hutto, where I live more desirable to future employees of Samsung. In my area, AT&T was first and put in 31/4" duct in front of all the houses. This runs to the end of the block and joins other cables from other streets, which in turn run around and along the rail road tracks to a cell tower where everybody and their brother have terminations. After AT&T was finished and had some of the fiber lit, I saw yet another company putting in duct work. At that site, I found out that there are 7 or 8 different companies that want to provide fiber service to the majority of homes in this area. Since this town used to be much smaller, it is probably in a zip code considered "rural". At present, the Feds are handing out money to fiber suppliers like candy and so everyone wants to build us out. This second provider was NextLink and all was well....until their horizontal drill guy happened to hit a 14" water main. After this, all of that sub-contractors equipment disappeared and all their work stopped. Later I found out the same sub hit sewer lines and in one area hit the 15.5 KV electric line feed the ground pigs (transformers) in our area. I suspect the city invited that sub-contractor to practice somewhere else. Now that the road damaged with the water main break has been repaired, I have seen splice points covered in and hand holes appearing, so someone is working..
Wish the UK would take this much effort in installing it. Here it’s just ‘chuck it in and hope for the best’
Awesome video!
during the transition from copper to fibre, my colleague told me a story of how crazy it was to convince the customers to change from modem to ONT as he was one of the technicians that was deployed to install the new ONT
You wouldn't have to convince me unless the price was outrageous. In suburbs it seems to be cheaper than cable internet. Really wish those recent grants would have went to small outfits wanting to do some startups in rural areas. But it probably all went to the huge companies to do nothing but stay on DOCSIS for another 20 years and bend over everyone.
Great video!
I liked the part at the beginning where the one guy was trying to surf the highway holding onto the cables as the driver yeets him forward.
wow. great video
Nice video! I had the privilege to see the proces in action in my street and ask the foreman some questions. And your video answered the rest of my questions
Wow as an ex cable guy all that conduit sure is nice!
Technology is really an amazing daily life companion if used right 😊😊
For someone who is learning networking on his own this is fckng gold!
A new fiber ISP rolled out in my area, and they ran their fiber along the electrical poles in the street, same as what Comcast and AT&T did. Seems easier than digging up the road.
This looks like an area with underground utilities though, which definitely looks cleaner.
Burying the fiber is the way to go, its much safer than arial which is prone to disasters
imagine down trees and utility poles that fibre breaks everything is dead from phones to cable
This was AWESOME!
Great video
Amazing video
Now they get internet from the future it's so powerful
This is nice, well done
Cool! In Italy, Internet Providers generally employ a similar method
What a great video, the way it's installed is pretty clever too. Very different to how it's laid in the UK.
Thanks for sharing
Fiber is an amazing technology, everyone should have access to. I hope the investment continues to grow in fiber networks. It truly is the best internet connection in existence
those drop ports are pretty cool
I do this currently, and this has to be the best and also most easy to listen to video from start to finish. Great work !
May I ask how one can go about in working with this sort of thing?
@@gustavoventurin If you are in the US (and probably elsewhere as well), you could look up "Certified Fiber Optic Training Courses" as a starting point. I took the first training course in a series for my job. I didn't need the skills but just the knowledge. To give you an idea, I did this about 5 years ago for $1500 USD and a several day long course. I passed the exam at the end and got a certificate from ETA International. It either wasn't hard or I had a good teacher that made it not hard.
This is great stuff..
Damn. Awesome job everyone
Great vid! Subscribed!
This is so cool!
fun fact, the fed helped pay to lay optic fiber in the 80's. When it was done, the telcos didn't want to share the fiber with competitors, so they dug up the fiber. The reason we don't have fiber across the US is the greed of the telcos. I remember seeing fiber being laid all around southern CA.
Laying fiber is time consuming, but the US would have been way ahead of the world in broadband if the telcos didn't behave like greedy jerks.
That's crazy! In the UK (at least where I live, small borough so a little late) we got fiber installed around 2001. It's shocking how these big companies have slowed down progress in US by decades.
Its funny they wanted to do the same in the 80s germany but then they decided cable tv is more important...
Different times. Fiber has been useless for a long time for residential applications. It was way to fragile. As you can see here, things changed a lot.
Do you have any sources? Telcos in the 80s were all part of the Bell breakup. There were no competing Telcos as the breakup mandated them becoming ILECs. Which literally meant they could never directly compete with each other. But this gave access for CLECs to come into play. I would like to read what you read that backs up what you are saying, because it goes against literally the entire history of telecommunications in the US. Also "digging up" the fiber would pretty much go against the rules of interconnection, which also goes against what you said. I don't expect any response from you here.
This is a common misconception, funds in the 1996 Telecom bill were for ISPs to build fiber to the node and between data centers which they did. it was NEVER for every single house in America to get a dedicated fiber line.