100G switchport 4x10G AOC, GPON and Rural Tap Splitters

Setting up a new gpon fiber from the start of the +5 optic to the first splice. Then after it just gets to hot to even think outside, UPS saves me with a delivery 4x10G AOC cable for our Celestica 100G switch connected to our Arista 7050S. Connecting a few networks together for the first time old and new. Some splicing and fun splitter stuff to figure out. Thanks for everyone watching still!

[@Nevexo287]

Excellent video, thanks Brice! It'd be great if you could do a logical tour of the network once you're fully setup and peering :)

[@briceperdue7587]

Absolutely! It's just so far out might not even be this year at the rate Windstream is moving at.

[@Nevexo287]

@@briceperdue7587 Heh, typically how it goes with the bigger providers.

[@BestSpatula]

What system of documentation do you use to keep track of all of your fiber, the patches and splices ?

[@briceperdue7587]

I've experimented a few different ways of doing it. For the most part just a series of google spreadsheets that I believe the office has hooked up into some GIS program. No matter what I do I still end up checking it every time in the POP first so I rely a lot of the switch port description and the label on the fiber.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

Another gooder man !! How does one like me get intouch with you ?

[@briceperdue7587]

U can email or find me on Skype

[@JasonsLabVideos]

@@briceperdue7587 email isn’t shown :)

[@mychalkeeney260]

I’m in IT and really like your videos but know nothing about fiber. Quick question- Can one fiber strand feed multiple customers or is each connected separately? Like on the 96 count cables does each one go direct to a customer?

[@briceperdue7587]

1 fiber can go to splitter passive to 64 customers

[@mychalkeeney260]

@@briceperdue7587 Nice and thanks for the response. So those black circular cases in the underground vaults with all the fibers actually splits one fiber strand into many customers? Again, appreciate your content and sorry for the dumb questions. Just super impressed with what can be done.

[@hariranormal5584]

@@mychalkeeney260 Yes they are used to splice usually two cables, so if you have two sets of XX number of fibers then it can be spliced there, and so. the OLT is the device that sits in the Telecom end which allows so many customers on one line, while on the customer side, the ONT, CPE, ""modem"" is the device. I think it uses TDD to work, and two wavelengths each for tx and rx.

[@mychalkeeney260]

⁠@@hariranormal5584Awesome and thank you for the explanation!

[@sandy1653]

For what it's worth whenever we splice in a lateral we always start again at blue.

[@briceperdue7587]

Thanks for watching! Going to try color to color as we are running same count cables here. I've tried what your saying start at blue 1 but then your data is nuts right? Same color in POP = same color in field until you run out seems like a easier way to keep track.

[@sandy1653]

​@@briceperdue7587 Yeah, it's definitely a valid and easy way to keep track of things. We ran into issues with flexibility of the system as we got larger. Especially in some of our older spans where buildings or roads would settle and stretch or pop a strand or a root or something would get in and we'd end up with a dud strand. The guys would of course rotate onto a spare strand but the pattern would break and it has caused some confusion before. At this point though, we've got basically the entire network loaded into our OSP management software now, and with a couple taps on my phone or iPad I can have the entire light-path from CPE to core pulled up. About the only time we really had a problem with that was after the hurricane, but in the couple days it took to get our own homes semi-secured and the core network back online we had (spotty admittedly) LTE coverage to work from.

[@briceperdue7587]

Direct bury fiber? Or inside conduit? If 1 fiber was bad but not all of them idk how that works exactly?

[@sandy1653]

@@briceperdue7587 We've seen it in both, though armored direct burry seems to be less susceptible. The fiber gets brittle as it ages from tension strain and cracks start to form which impact the reflectivity. Micro cracking from over-tension during an install or from settling and shifting in the ground around a cable can also cause it. They slowly get worse and eventually a strand will hit a point where you can't get a usable signal through it. It's more of a problem with older fiber on longer links where we're pushing the light budget or on our golf course communities where they rebuild the course every 3 years which causes a lot of ground movement.