My step son does this type of work in and around Atlanta. He's tried to explain to me how it's done, so thank you for showing this. love all of your vids.
Lovely to watch an expert at work - thank you for this very careful and detailed demonstration of how to properly make a mechanical connection. Here in France where they are doing a mass deployment of fibre, some individuals have been complaining about poor or non-existent connectivity, and watching how you carefully perform each step, it will be easy to complain about possible errors in the set-up if necessary. Many thanks.
Very interesting. Friend of mine years ago (circa 1999) mentioned having to get certified for working with fiber optic. Lots of stuff about polishing the end of the cable and what not. Didn't go much into it only that it was pretty involved. Guessing things have evolved quite a bit since then. Thanks for sharing this with us, definitely was always curious about it.
I saw your using SC ends. I noticed around here most stuff is coming with LC. the video display job we did in Tennessee at Jefferson high school we used a fiber patch panel and went to ST instead of SC or LC. And just used a simple off the shelf ST to LC for the SFP blades. the fiber we pulled was 6-strand, and I only needed a pair for the media converter so it left some spares in case something got damaged. Lucky because 1 of the fibers was dead, and a 2nd fiber was in a "degraded" state according to the tester. Neat stuff. We hired a company to come out and terminate/splice the fiber.
Thanks for sharing this. In the early 90's I ran about a total of 2000 feet of 4 inch emt , thank then was pulled a 1 inch poly like tube that was then pulled 2 fiber optic cables. I just ran the 4 inch , but always wondered how it was spliced together... lol.. After 25 yrs mystery solved..
Very interesting video. I have seen Corning tools before but never seen how they work. I use a 3M system, and the crimping tool is way less impressive, but my Japanese cleaved looks more like a high precision mechanical assembly. When I was teached about fiber optics, we were given a good trick to limit the risk with shards of loose parts: we generally use some stickers like printers address forms to get a "receiving" surface to get rid of all loose parts and cleaved fiber parts: once the job is done, you have just to fold the sticker and dispose in a special container.
Man that looks easy. 20 years or so ago, after cleaving, you had to epoxy the fibre into the connector and then carefully polish the end of it; at least on the course that I went on in '96.
I've never seen a NID like that before! It can house both fiber and copper? Nice! Also, I have one of these machines on my splice truck and now I know how to use it if I need it, thanks!
In my part of the US we have had fiber to the home for around 12 years now through Verizon. Around here they don't even bother custom cutting the fiber drop from the pole they just use pre terminated lengths and coil up the excess cable in a purpose built cavity at the back of the ONT.
Very interesting video, always nice to see how things are done before being connected to equipment. But I'm a little confused as there is only one fibre. We've got two fibre wires going into our fibre switch at home, one for TX and one for RX. How does it work with just one fibre?
You should look up Cleerline SSF. It puts the old Unicam connectors like that to shame. Can be re used over and over. If you mess up, no problem. Also their fiber is safe when cut and has an amazing bend radius. Also cheaper. We recently had a training on it and were pretty impressed.
My step son does this type of work in and around Atlanta. He's tried to explain to me how it's done, so thank you for showing this. love all of your vids.
Thank you for sharing your expertise and a piece of your work life. Regards, Dave
Lovely to watch an expert at work - thank you for this very careful and detailed demonstration of how to properly make a mechanical connection. Here in France where they are doing a mass deployment of fibre, some individuals have been complaining about poor or non-existent connectivity, and watching how you carefully perform each step, it will be easy to complain about possible errors in the set-up if necessary. Many thanks.
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Is nice to learn from people that know what they’re doing great video 👍
Very interesting. Friend of mine years ago (circa 1999) mentioned having to get certified for working with fiber optic. Lots of stuff about polishing the end of the cable and what not. Didn't go much into it only that it was pretty involved. Guessing things have evolved quite a bit since then. Thanks for sharing this with us, definitely was always curious about it.
I saw your using SC ends. I noticed around here most stuff is coming with LC. the video display job we did in Tennessee at Jefferson high school we used a fiber patch panel and went to ST instead of SC or LC. And just used a simple off the shelf ST to LC for the SFP blades. the fiber we pulled was 6-strand, and I only needed a pair for the media converter so it left some spares in case something got damaged. Lucky because 1 of the fibers was dead, and a 2nd fiber was in a "degraded" state according to the tester. Neat stuff. We hired a company to come out and terminate/splice the fiber.
Thanks for sharing this. In the early 90's I ran about a total of 2000 feet of 4 inch emt , thank then was pulled a 1 inch poly like tube that was then pulled 2 fiber optic cables. I just ran the 4 inch , but always wondered how it was spliced together... lol.. After 25 yrs mystery solved..
That's an interesting process, keeping the termination to a known and reliable quality.
Very informative!! Thanks for video.
Very interesting video. I have seen Corning tools before but never seen how they work. I use a 3M system, and the crimping tool is way less impressive, but my Japanese cleaved looks more like a high precision mechanical assembly. When I was teached about fiber optics, we were given a good trick to limit the risk with shards of loose parts: we generally use some stickers like printers address forms to get a "receiving" surface to get rid of all loose parts and cleaved fiber parts: once the job is done, you have just to fold the sticker and dispose in a special container.
Man that looks easy. 20 years or so ago, after cleaving, you had to epoxy the fibre into the connector and then carefully polish the end of it; at least on the course that I went on in '96.
Very interesting !! Great info !! Thanks for sharing !!
I've never seen a NID like that before! It can house both fiber and copper? Nice! Also, I have one of these machines on my splice truck and now I know how to use it if I need it, thanks!
Very interesting vid on how the end point F. O. cable termination process is done...
Never have i thought of using the jig. Going to check out my kit for one thx
In my part of the US we have had fiber to the home for around 12 years now through Verizon. Around here they don't even bother custom cutting the fiber drop from the pole they just use pre terminated lengths and coil up the excess cable in a purpose built cavity at the back of the ONT.
Very interesting video, always nice to see how things are done before being connected to equipment. But I'm a little confused as there is only one fibre. We've got two fibre wires going into our fibre switch at home, one for TX and one for RX. How does it work with just one fibre?
You should look up Cleerline SSF. It puts the old Unicam connectors like that to shame. Can be re used over and over. If you mess up, no problem. Also their fiber is safe when cut and has an amazing bend radius. Also cheaper. We recently had a training on it and were pretty impressed.
Good work keep going