Touring a Startup Fiber Optic ISP ! GoNetSpeed in Connecticut

[@HEETSEEKAH]

Wow, finally have some answers to how fiber internet is able to offer such high speed options. Mind blowing to see that one strand of fiber can feed up to 64 customers! Every town in America needs to start running fiber as required infrastructure. Thanks Lon for this.

[@James_Knott]

Fibre uses between carriers and ISPs can now do 800 Gb, with 1.6 Tb around the corner. They'll have several wavelengths or "colours" of light in the infrared range, with each wavelength typically running 200, 400, or 800 Gb. A cable will have many fibre strands to carry a *LOT* of data.

[@CantankerousDave]

Telecom lobbyists have been hard at work throwing around “campaign donations” for the past decade to get municipal broadband outlawed. They’ve succeeded in some cities.

[@wiziek]

not reallly ,64 customer that depends if they are using gpon

[@wiziek]

@@James_Knott this is core network or interconnect, while end user is using same fiber, electronics are different

[@appleeimac]

64 is only a start. I believe there is such a thing as a 256 way split.

[@MarkAzali]

GoNetSpeed was smart to do this video. It's super informative and puts them in a pro-consumer light. Even if you don't have fiber in your area, you can understand why deploying it takes so long. It's an uphill battle against the big guys, but I really commend them for doing the right thing to add competition. No one should be comfortable knowing their cable/DSL speeds have not changed in many years when there IS a better solution out there.

[@dvanomaly420]

Unfortunately there is some misinformation in the video. XGSPON is time-division multiplexed, not wavelength. There is clearly a fundamental misunderstanding of how the technology works here. Each PON standard uses a unique set of wavelengths, which allows it's various versions to be multiplexed on the same strand. Each strand connected to an OLT port is limited by the maximum throughput of the standard in use. In this case XGSPON is ~ 10Gbps symmetrical. The more data those other 63 to 127 neighbors use, the slower your own connection becomes. Wavelengths multiplexing has been around for a long time, and could certainly be done here. I'm sure they considered WDM solutions. However, they decided to go with PON instead. Likely to reduce CPE deployment complexity, and overall infrastructure costs. This is what a budget-conscious fiber rollout looks like. One that prioritizes quantity over quality/throughput.

[@chrisbullock6477]

The other providers top guys don't know enough to talk about what they offer and the tech behind it like their guys on the ground sadly and PR and Lawyers won't let them speak...

[@BlueRice]

yes. need more smaller guys here jumping into the game. it will put big cable provider to force them to go fiber as well

[@dennisp8520]

@@dvanomaly420 Budget concious fiber builds are done by even the larger companies. Verizon was doing exactly this originally when FIOs was first introduced with BPON then to GPON. However, they ran into capacity issues. So they started reducing the number of houses served by node from 128 to 64 to 32 and now in current day its 16 in most places. The exception being in XGPON upgraded areas seeing the higher speed tiers being provided

[@deepspacecow2644]

@@dvanomaly420 XGS-PON is wavelength multiplexed though, the upstream and downstream are at different wavelengths, multiplexed on one fiber.

[@Mic_Glow]

Now this is an ad I enjoyed to watch. The guy knows what he's talking about, no sugar coating or lies.

[@BillyLapTop]

Hi Lon, glad Tom honored your request for telling us subs how these fiber ISP's plumb their networks to the customer base. Thirty miles without any boost is an amazing feat for an optical pulse. GoNetSpeed looks like a class act in my book.

[@wiziek]

amazing? you have any idea how fiber works?

[@Zinojn]

@@wiziek do you? Fiber can’t run forever without proper equipment. No your signal from your home isn’t going to other continents without huge infrastructure to make that happen…

[@deepspacecow2644]

Thank Nokia

[@bixfisher]

Just dumped Spectrum Cable for Gateway Fiber here in the St. Peters, Missouri area. They bored the new trunk down my street in mid December, performed my initial temporary install two weeks ago and another crew came back yesterday and buried the temporary drop. Couldn't have been easier and faster. And best of all, I dropped the "evil" Spectrum Cable at $85.00 a month internet, for $65.00 a month at 300 Mbps which is their slowest speed, but it's all I need. And they let me keep my existing ORBI mesh system since I have a lot of port forwarding going on with cameras, etc.. It's simply amazing technology. Thank you Lon for sharing this with us.

[@stemlator]

This was fascinating to watch. In my home state of Missouri, the rural electric cooperatives have started laying fiber and providing fiber internet to their customers. My parents are two very satisfied customers of one such cooperative. Outages have been minimal and resolved quickly. Before this, they were limited to wireless internet which was only a few Mbps down and 1-2 Mbps up. Now they get 100 Mbps symmetrical. 1 Gpbs service is also available where they live. They also bundled their TV with their internet for around $80 per month. The picture quality is unbelievable and they have whole-home DVR. More companies laying fiber forces cable companies to improve their infrastructure to compete which means we all win as consumers. Thanks for the tour, Lon.

[@jason00794]

I'm in Missouri also. it's crazy how many different fiber ISPs companies have popped up in the last few years. While I do have access to Charter Spectrum with good speeds in my mostly rural town, I dropped them immediately when the fiber rolled through. Faster symmetrical speeds for less.

[@Bill_N_ATX]

You are lucky to be in Missouri. In Maryland, the phone and cable companies paid the state legislators to pass a law prohibiting the local governments and electric cooperatives from constructing fiber infrastructure. Couldn’t have any competition. I was working with the city utility and we were in the process of getting bids to do it when they passed the law.

[@maximefcom]

I'm amazed by the manager doing the presentation. His job is to manage the operations of the business but he have deep knowledge and he's good at explaining complexe things in a way that is easy to understand.

[@FPE93]

20 years ago, in a previous life, I did all of that. Not much has actually changed, faster and smaller for sure and fiber is now reaching the home. Loved that time, it felt like been a pioneer :)

[@mikehedrick6544]

It was very nice for Tom to give such a great tour of the operations and to discuss the complete distribution process. I wish we had GoNetSpeed available in my area. 👍

[@cjc363636]

I work in a video distribution hub, and it's all fed via fiber. I've wondered how this all works. Lon, thanks so much for this educational video! The speed vs. size of cable is just incredible! Now I'm hoping somebody gets this available to my house! And thanks to Gonetspeed for showing us how the magic works!

[@JamfSlayer]

Lon, this is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. I've only toured an old school dialup ISP that used to exist here, eNet, and I look forward to the day we get fiber throughout our area. Frontier has been running a ton in the area, but everyone is elusive on when it's becoming available to the area. Hoping Spectrum does something, or does a DOCSIS 3.1 or 4 high split. Also, tell this gentleman to open up shop in Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, and I'll help him interface with the township. We need this, and I love how he anticipates capacity needs properly. 😊

[@glsone11]

I'm moving into a new home in CT on 4/1 and I was very happy to see that GoNetSpeed was available at the new address. Well timed video, I'm planning on signing up for their service.

[@bluetonight17]

Check if Frontiers 5 gig is available and price out the two.

[@maxshadow...]

@@bluetonight17 Frontier is HORRIBLE!

[@atomictransfusion]

i thought 4/1 was the current internet speed at that house and not the date that you are moving to it on

[@boomsig9069]

30 Year veteran in the carrier space and the changes over that time have been massive. I started in the residential space eventually joining the development team for Optimum Online in the 1990's. Glad to see new companies coming in creating competition in that space where it would have been impossible less than a decade ago.

[@trackvbwrx]

Wow you’re old, that’s sweet! I’ve been with Suddenlink since I graduated High School in 2021. I started as an installer in December, became Outside Plant Maintenance in September once we became Optimum, and now I’m about to start as a Lineman for a contractor that builds for Segra, Windstream, Optimum, and Comcast.

[@boomsig9069]

@@trackvbwrx Congrats! Get those certifications and never stop learning! Another thing, never take shortcuts gaffing any poles or working around the lines. Please be safe. Do that, and before you know it, you'll be gray haired and online giving well wishes to the young folks.

[@davidchristensen6908]

Well good for GoNetSpeed. Good for you for finding a company to talk to. Best wishes to this company

[@jeffreymcquillen1208]

This was a very informative video. It was nice to see what it actually takes to get a fiber service up in running. I hope fiber grows to such a point that it finds its way to more rural areas. The lack of competition in the rural areas just makes online pricing so expensive. I recently moved from a rural area where we had broadband of speeds up to 30mps. What I paid for that was the same price I pay AT+T for quadruple the speed with their fiber.

[@AlexanderSogliero]

Just signed up for service the other day. Think that the fact that the CEO took the time out to talk and educate speaks volumes. 👏 Looking forward to doing business with GoNetSpeed 🤘

[@agentj642]

There are currently two companies in my area that are deploying fiber, and after watching this I didn't know it was getting that "easy" (so to speak) to roll out. Also it is good to know that fiber can still work like POTS lines back in the day which eases some of my concerns of reliability during power outages. And you can basically run an entire town out of a small closet?!?!!?? Very fascinating stuff. Thank you for the video, really enjoyed it!

[@wiziek]

easy? you have no idea how that works right? this is just part of network, this doesn't show core isp network, their interconnect to upstream or other operators, companies or their internal infrastructure (like their servers or office network)

[@deepspacecow2644]

@@wiziek Easier than a copper network, which has all of those components, plus tons more active equipment in the outside plant. This is almost all centered in the CO.

[@trevorlynch1818]

I really enjoyed this video. Loved how he explained everything. I also love how you asked the questions. I saw similar videos before but never had it this informative. I felt like I learned so much from watching your interview. Wish if they had service here in Winchester Virginia.

[@kathygore2155]

You have been knocking it out of the park with your recent videos about costs of different content providers, ISPs and this tour of a fiber ISP. Your presentations really are, as you say, clear and concise with so much information packed into short videos. And with your excellent communication skills and your voice, the videos are so engaging.

[@Elder-Sage]

Video was both excellent and informative. Kudos to Gonetspeed, for recognizing an opportunity in promotion.

[@dyl421421]

This is such a cool video. I love how he’s really getting into the nitty gritty super technical details, and really love how knowledgeable the COO is of all this tech! What a great experience that must’ve been to see firsthand!

[@technicalthug]

Came to post the same thing. +1 for the COO being across everything. The company sounds like it has good bones.

[@SanchoPanza-wg5xf]

This COO is no politically-correct stuffed-shirt dropping buzzwords with only a rudimentary grasp of the fundamentals, like you'd find at any of the entrenched ISPs. He knows his tech inside and out and communicates effectively.

[@zer0r00t]

Seems like a very serious company that cares about customer experience. I wish them all the best

[@igeekone]

I love the commitment to not overly oversubscribe their network. That's hugely important, cause what good is a gig for if you only get it in the early morning hours. The operation looks really clean. Fantastic tour, thank you GoNetSpeed!

[@wiziek]

wtf? you think getting 64 or 128 people each up to 1gb on 2,5g download/1,2 gb upload poart isn't overly oversubscribing?

[@joewashu]

@@wiziek It is XGSPON, not GPON, so each PON splitter has 10 Gbps Upstream and 10 Gpbs Upstream capability/capacity

[@hariranormal5584]

@@joewashu I think they are looking at it in a different way. Oversubscribing as in "data to the internet", not from your home to ISP core. Probably, I dunno.

[@bluetonight17]

They are way way over subscribing thier network right at the PON. The new Nokia he is using I have in my office. Those PONs have a max limit of 25/25 Gbps. Split that between 64 to 124 customers. Then the backplane of the Nokia 7360 has a limit of 200 Gbps per slot divided by 1024 minimum of only 64 per PON. Up to 2,048 customers at any given time. That is why they are sticking to 1 gig. Where as their largest competition in CT can give you 5 Gig because they are not allowing more then 32 per port and we watch for high usage customers and can move them. They are copying exactly what another small startup did here in my state, we take their customers daily now because they have so many issues trying to get 128 people on a single PON. And the number of splits causing weak signals to their customers. I love it when we take their customers. Then they can enjoy true high speed and pay less.

[@larryjay]

Fascinating tour of the GoNetSpeed plant. Thanks to the GoNetSpeed rep Tom for taking the time to explain all the details.

[@jerrygeorgopolis8015]

Thanks for showing the updated connection process. I use to work on the Fiber Transport systems, like SONET Fujitsu equipment and DACS to process fiber signals. That would be interesting to see updated transport systems.

[@bjoern.photography]

Pasive network are great especially in disaster scenario as restorig power to the ONT will usually restore network service, in Australia we've run into issues with copper node and mobile infrastructure loosing power resualting in not being able to contact emergency services in major storm events

[@wiziek]

uhm mobile network are supposed to have backup too and they are backed up by fiber connections in most of cases.

[@bjoern.photography]

@@wiziek yes that would be great but unfortunately the site ran out of diesel. it runs exclusively of generators with a microwave relay. with all the tree down they won't able to get refunded it for about 5days.

[@chriseverett5398]

Thanks Lon for making such an interesting and informative video! And he is right about phone companies being around 100 years and dealing with antiquated tech, That's why I Feel that Gonetspeed is so competitive, they don't have to maintain legacy equipment, same also goes for cable co. !!!!!

[@ISP254]

We are an ISP based in Kenya and this has been educational. Thanks

[@mjodr]

This is awesome. I've been out of IT for 10 years and fiber is coming to my area. Nice to see an actual physical demonstration of the entire network. This *WAS* the grey area in my brain, now it's cleared up. Thanks!

[@dave4shmups]

That was pretty interesting! Where I live, we’re in the process of getting fiber optic internet through a company called Ting. We don’t have any old utility poles; everything is buried underground. So they’re laying cable in the streets first.

[@JJFlores197]

My neighborhood is the same. We have underground utilities. We're supposed to be getting a fiber internet provider: Race Communications sometime this year. Going to be interesting how they install the fiber in our area. Can't wait to get rid of Comcast.

[@deepspacecow2644]

@Times Past Television I think more likely vibratory plows.

[@maxherman11]

Absolutely loved this! would love to see more ISP tours! I've always wondered what it looks like from an ISP side, would like to see one of those MegaPoP's that feed back to the greater internet (if they even are allowed to show that)

[@trackvbwrx]

It’s not much to see I assure you, I can try to grab a picture of one of ours for you.

[@bankruptsee]

It’s good to see an executive so in touch with the process

[@garyjarvis2730]

Very nicely done. I always wondered how the bits come together -now I know. Thanks to Gonetspeed for allowing a closeup look at sensitive infrastructure. I like the candid explanation of how some providers overselling the system and how their solution is committed to avoiding this pitfall. If I lived in Connecticut I'd give them a shot at providing my service. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@srubel59]

FYI, I have Verizon FiOS and for my neighborhood they're using the same Nokia 7300 series equipment. I retired from Verizon where I supported the backbone core equipment my entire career and just recently learned about GPON gear. I was also recently upgraded to 1G up down on this exact same platform so your timing on this is perfect!

[@daveschmarder-1950]

I live 10 miles from Corning, NY. I wonder when it fiber internet will make it to my house?

[@RefurbishedBacon]

Man this guy is a wealth of knowledge, and lon is a great interviewer for this.

[@michaelrfx7]

Incredible video and awesome guest speaker, he does a great job of explaining his product and no feel of being sold/advert! Thanks Lon!

[@mikehedrick6544]

Michael, I agree that Tom did an excellent job of explaining everything in a short amount of time. Very complete in demonstrating the process with the equipment. 👍

[@geofreypejsa54]

Terrific video Lon. I really enjoyed the behind the scenes of the ISP. Very interesting how it all comes together and does come across similar to home networks only scaled up tremedously with redundancy and higher grade equipment

[@hhc1000]

What an absolutely amazing knowledgeable guy. Every question answered with incredible interest. A real business leader

[@mokisan]

This is such a cool video Lon. Thank you so much for doing this! Loved it.

[@mark12.31]

Very interesting and props to him for giving you the full tour! Great video!

[@anthonydiiorio]

Amazing video Lon! Great to see the impressive infrastructure that goes into the high speed internet we often take for granted.

[@brandonbursley1924]

Nice, gonetspeed expanded quite a bit in Maine. It’s to bad all ISPs weren’t at this level of quality in care and customer service. Please don’t ever change! Keep growing!

[@matt9c1]

While I don't live in the area GoNetSpeed is, this was really cool. I wish them the best of luck building out their system!

[@andrewbeyer2747]

I found this so interesting I just watched it twice!

[@wickedpowder708]

Full disclosure before I comment - I have 25+ years working for a direct competitor of gonetspeed in CT, and I spend every day building PON networks in multiple states in the area. First, Good job by gonet for seizing this opportunity. It’s good press, and I’m upset that my own company neglected to take this offer and show the public how things work and the very same tech is already in place on our end. I’ve said for years, that if I could show my customers the inner workings of how their mouse clicks make it to the Internet, and show them the cost of building and maintaining these networks , they would be much more understanding of their bills when it comes time to pay. Second, fiber is not new folks. You’ve had it with all the major providers for nearly 30 years or possibly longer. It has been in place running through your neighborhoods and transporting data all this time. What is “new” is fiber directly to your doorstep, instead of fiber to your street. The way most MSOs designed their networks was a hybrid fiber - coax architecture. This is what you have if you aren’t able to get FTTH yet. It just means you are running on coax for the last few streets before it hits your house. We have the technology available to get you speeds up to 10G on that system. The problem is though, why bother. People won’t want to pay what it would cost. Over the last few years fiber tech and optics has come way down. We can switch to a PON architecture quickly now, since we don’t have to run full networks and build hub sites. And we are. For whatever reason, the MSO’s are not hyping the fact that they have been rebuilding for easily 5+ years in my case. We were doing it prior to the word Covid being mentioned. Want to see fiber to your home built quicker? Start hammering your provider with calls and emails. I assure you though, we know, and we are building fast. Seeing gonet’s warehouse with all the coyote cases gave me nightmares. If you’ve ever worked with them you know what I mean. 😅 Competition is a good thing for consumers and businesses. My advice is look for customer service in a company, not price. As gonet grows, those intro rates will evaporate like all the other companies. They aren’t sustainable because of the simple cost of doing business. Good thing, is that fiber networks are durable and much less prone to interference and cheaper to operate over the long run, which should lead to less price hikes once they are built out. And it sounds like they are doing well on customer service, which is good for the customers as well. I wish I could show you all how impressive and expansive our networks truly are as they sit today, even without the expansion. I assure you, they’re no joke. The redundancy designs alone (in case a pole gets hit or a weather event) are working literally at the speed of light. They reroute so fast, you never even know there is a break in many circumstances.😉

[@mcd5082]

Tom was very knowledgeable from product to implementation. Thanks for sharing

[@ajmo3525]

WELL DONE C.O.O , EXCELLENTLY PRESENTED AND VERY PROFESSIONALLY MADE. FROM PAKISTAN.

[@rdwatson]

Amazing that they can serve so many customers from one rack. Thanks for the behind the scenes tour.

[@arjovenzia]

A similar thing happened in Australia when ADSL2+ came in. for years ADSL1 was available from the national provider, where ISP's could lease equipment in the exchange, but the speed and price was set by the telco, (ie, slow and expensive, the cynic in me thinks so they could keep collecting phone charges from dialup). Internode ran their own fibre to the exchanges for the backhaul, and were able to install their own hardware in the exchange. they still had to lease the copper from the premises to the exchange, but the dramatic leap in capacity, pricing, speed and customer service really shook up the industry. Im still with them, many years later, even tho the competition has caught up in pricing, and most of it is on the NBN now, they always have spare capacity and their customer service is absolutely excellent, worth it.

[@pupdoggify]

This is what I call AMERICA FIRST company! We need one of these in every local community instead of some mega-corp. Kudos guys 👏

[@seanplace8192]

When fiber internet became available in my neighborhood, I switched right away. This new ISP provides internet that is 2x faster and slightly cheaper than my old copper ISP. It's definitely worth the switch, especially if your copper ISP keeps raising rates like mine was.

[@zoiks6631]

Lon, I enjoy your content, and I think this is my favorite video you’ve ever done. I started my IT career many years ago working for a dialup ISP, and it was really interesting to see how much the technology has changed. I remember it being a big deal when the ISP I worked for had a DS3 installed and was the only DS3 located within a 100 mile radius. I believe the bandwidth provided by a DS3 is 45 Mb/s, which is laughable now.

[@Jude-kq1jw]

This is a great video. Tom reflects the values of his company and I wish their service was available in florida.

[@bland9876]

This feels like something I would watch on TV back when TV was a thing. They didn't really have a different name for the service that you were paying for versus the actual device that you're watching it on which is kind of confusing nowadays.

[@millers29]

Passive Optical Network: PON is a shared network, in that the OLT sends a single stream of downstream traffic that is seen by all ONUs. Each ONU reads the content of only those packets that are addressed to it. Encryption is used to prevent eavesdropping on downstream traffic.

[@AndrewMackoul]

This was an awesome video! While I don't have Gonetspeed, I am subscribed to a newcomer fiber ISP in my area (Metronet), so I bet it's all pretty similar.

[@Virt7_]

Love to see how ISP’s roll out their infrastructure. I’m pretty sure this is how windstream sets up their fiber. Frontier and Verizon have very different designs.

[@SteveH-TN]

Thanks for sharing this video and information. I retired in 2004 as a network systems engineer. I started in college in 1967 with a headend for video. I am currently an Extra Class Amateur Radio operator experimenting with mesh networking over radio frequencies. De AA4SH

[@rschrader]

Lon - excellent interview and great insight into some of the inner workings of an ISP!

[@PhillipWaters]

I sure wish we had this in our area.

[@etw31087]

What an awesome job explaining everything, this was truly a thorough class on the operations of fiber to the home. Keep up the great work.

[@RealAct]

This is actually fascinating stuff. Thanks Lon for such a great video. It's actually good to see an ISP being so open like that. I wish they were in my area.

[@pehenry]

Man, this guy is super knowledgable.

[@deucekiller022]

wow its good to see someone in his position to actually know how everything work.

[@jrsx1129]

What an awesome and informative video. The fact that one of GoNetSpeed's executives would take the time and and effort and agree to go on video with your channel speaks volumes of their mindset towards consumers. Very cool. Can't imagine one of the big legacy TeleComm companies ever doing that.

[@ITStechy]

30 miles terrestrial is a good range with the power output of lasers used today over single mode. When you go subsea we start talking about EFDAs…that’s really cool tech there that not many people know about and the fiber goes hundreds of miles without a “repeater” in the true sense. That is really mind-blowing at a sub-atomic level.

[@dennyklaver6398]

Lon, Thank you so much for the behind the scene tour of a fiber ISP. I enjoy your channel - and the variety of content and depth into technical areas. Also wanted to mention I enjoy your coverage of Ham Radio as well. It's great you are taking risks into topics that others don't cover. Great Job!! Denny

[@nyne6]

Very informative video!I was wondering how it all worked, In Athens Greece where i live in the past two years ftth(fiber to the home) has become avaliable to arround 40 to 50% of the population .The way they do it here is that a large provider is assigned to a specific area,they build the infastracture(not over the air they dig on the side of the streets) and then you can choose which provider you want as your final isp at home.Also if you apply for ftth they are obligaded to fix the infastracture for the entire bulding,so lets say that you live in an apartment building and one guy applies for ftth then the entire building gets floor boxes that are ready to connect everyone.The equipment you get at home is an ont(just like in the video) and a router.Some providers do give one device that has the ont and the router on the same device.Finally (sorry for the long post) the avaliable speeds start at 200mbps up to 1gb.

[@Timothy-NH]

This was great! I'm a datacom guy, I do commercial cabling, including fiber, but have been watching the buildout of Fidium in my city and I've been fascinated with it. I switched from mechanical to fusion a few years ago, was a great choice!

[@redsquirrelftw]

I worked in a CO as a NOC tech (we were recently moved to the call centre office) so it's cool to see what goes into a brand new fibre ISP. It's much simpler now in terms of equipment needed, incredible that it's all in one rack. For old style telco just the DMS100 alone takes up a whole room, then the DSLAMs take up another room, batteries another room and so on. I imagine that single Nokia shelf is not cheap though! It may take up less space but I'm sure the $$$ capital requirement is huge. When they rolled up fibre here they were able to put everything in about 6 racks. It looks like this tech is very similar to ours, but we're on Alcatel. Though this one might actually be better, it sounds like it scales much higher.

[@pdegnan4852]

The pricing may not be bad as you think if they're buying in volume. I bet in high quantity we're looking at less than $150,000.00 USD of equipment in that picture (the priciest stuff are those fiber line cards) So (as you know if you're in the industry) the equipment Nokia is selling to these folks has it's roots in Alcatel-Lucent's carrier business division in the ISP space. Alcatel was known for undercutting a competitor's RFP in the North American market space (it's how I ended up supporting Alcatel gear for about 8 years at my last job, campus networking), and Alcatel was known to sell gear almost at cost in the U.S. to take away business from the incumbent competitors. It wouldn't surprise me if Nokia still doing stuff like that, especially to get new customers. Nokia today also is part of an honestly smaller group of networking equipment manufacturers that make gear for this space, and (again as you probably know) Alcatel goes *way* back in this space to the "Ground Floor" vendors whose customers were setting up the peering that made up a lot of the newly commercialized Internet. Cisco's pricing is usually insane in the multi-protocol space which usually keeps them out of a C.O. unless some there is a wacky proprietary "gotta have it" feature for the customer. Although as I say that, there appears to be a Cat9000 series switch ToR in this video that the Nokia CMM's management ports uplink to (if Nokia still even calls them CMMs anymore... Supervisor Modules for the Cisco people!... but yea the Cat9000 is definitely not carrying any customer backhaul). But yea, all of this is far cry from the way it used to be. I have professional contacts that work as contractors in the carrier space (gone are the days when it was all in-house employees), and they tell me most of these physically monster-sized C.O.'s and POPs you see in major city that used to house SxS and 5XB's house a fraction of equipment that they used to, so most of that space is just empty frames with the lights turned off with some racks of hypervisors and aggregation gear on the ground floors that replaced all the old gear. In the NANP space, VMware is getting dump trucks full of cash as the core Telco engineer folks are now just finally mass-adopting virtualization for "softswitches" now that the old Nortel and Western Electric ESS equipment is getting to the point now where there's no spare parts left, and all the support personnel that know those frames like a lover are either dying or finally retiring. I'm of the opinion that : In places were wireline business still makes sense : PON going to supplant 99.5% of everything deployed. So, it's great to see a startup competitor in this video, as most FTTP service in the United States is either an ILEC or some kind of Co-Op in sparsely populated areas that are providing an alternative to dismal TelCo services. In America, Verizon has a huge stick up their bum in a many places about taking away all wireline services altogether and taking everyone to Fixed 5G for the last mile. However, in places where they're trying it, it isn't going as planned and they're actually taking some of those customers back to FTTP. When it comes to carriers in a market to shop, the more the merrier!

[@jacobnoori]

GoNetSpeed seems like a solid provider. I would definitely purchase service from them if I was in their coverage area.

[@DanielLaurie]

Thank you thank you thank you! I live in iowa but my parents are in CT. Actually in New Britain!!! This helps them understand their GoNetSpeed service so much. Excellent excellent excellent video!!!

[@kingraheel]

Hats off to lontv and GoNetspeed for being so transparent 👍

[@mlegos]

It would be cool if you could talk about plastic fiber in the house.

[@poormanselectronicsbench2021]

I've installed Nokia / Alcatel 7342 bays for one "Large" telecom, that looks like the 7360 offering, newer, more port outputs per card slot and higher capacity on the backplane. The sad part is, I am retired now, and that same provider hasn't covered my neighborhood with fiber, and I am stuck on an old U-Verse system until it fails or another competitor steps up and installs a fiber network. Good "behind the scenes" video, thanks for the content.

[@okcthunder8993]

Why not just say at&t?

[@poormanselectronicsbench2021]

@@okcthunder8993 OK, at&t (hanging head in shame)

[@okcthunder8993]

@@poormanselectronicsbench2021 lol

[@jimpeter3453]

Terrific! Good for them, for providing this tour. Regards from Baltimore.

[@elmehdioubouhouch]

This company really knows what they doing and really cares about the costumer

[@maxshadow...]

Actually they don't.

[@jimg1474]

This is the type of stuff that makes you one of my favorite tech people!

[@kayjoe7237]

I checked out the pricing. I like it and the upload and download is a winner. A strong reason I would move to CT now. Thanks for bringing some awareness about these guys.

[@oneito947]

this is the neatest fibe rinfrastructure setup i have ever seen, mahn even the conenction from FAT to the home drop has a unique connector, we only splice all sections.

[@DavidHarry]

That was very informative, Lon. Cheers, Dave.

[@toofast4radar]

This is one of the more interesting videos you've done. Not that the others aren't good, but this was just intriguing because it's not something you really think about.

[@andrewmcdonald6108]

Great video, very interesting, thankyou. Here in Australia, capital cities & regional centres (relatively small population, huge area) are switching to fibre from 1950's copper via our government owned NBN ( National Broadband Network) all underground. 30 years ago we started the overhead cables etc for pay tv and internet, very ugly, that was stopped and all services, including power in new areas are underground. The NBN comes in stages depending on the age of your area. FTTN ( fiber to the node) copper to a cabinet that might be kilometers away. FTTC (fiber to the curb) copper to the house from the street and FTTP (to the premises) as described here. Only 1 gig offered (domestically) but I suspect that will improve over time.

[@RobertDunn310]

Outstanding video! I just got fiber Internet into my home and while it's not with GoSpeed, I am almost certain that the same principles apply. Try doing a video like that with a mobile carrier!

[@arbyyyyh]

Moving next week and found that I'm in GoNetSpeed's service area!! I'm already excited to have full 1G synchronous and it's amazing timing that I'm seeing this while I'm counting down the days to my install!

[@bobbydazzler6990]

You just watched the video and you still think you are going to get 1Gb up/1Gb down at your house for less than $100 a month? You should probably re-watch the video. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@xaq7745]

@@bobbydazzler6990 Ever heard of the Affordable Connectivity Program? Dobson Fiber just put lines in throughout my small Oklahoma town, and with ACP, they'd give me their 1GB plan for $5 a month. I'm Native and live on Tribal land, where ACP gives you $75 off your internet access bill.

[@SuperSpecies]

Maybe you mean symmetrical? Synchronous relates to data clocking.

[@adamherrmann3456]

Absolutely great video! Thank you for doing this and thank you to the company for having you out!!

[@rafaeltorovip]

You have the ability of bringing unique content. Thank you. 👍

[@attilavidacs24]

Very impressive video. It's great to see the enterprise level hardware and ISP uses.

[@PWingert1966]

Rochester telecom used to have a group of rope climbing, repelling and European style absailing specialists to deal with specialized cable environments such as the side of cliffs or steep hills and tall building (20 -50 Storey) external cabling environments as well.

[@buildfrom]

Very informative and interesting. The ethics of this fibre provider sound exemplary as does their approach to customer service. The COO, Tom, sounds very knowledgeable. With the values this fibre broadband provider has they deserve to do extremely well.

[@MoritzvonSchweinitz]

I love these kind of documentaries! There are so many cool things all around us, and I think we should all know more about them. I especially like that this doesn't really seem like an ad for that ISP. It's mostly just a dude explaining what they do, which leaves a great impression of that company - if he would've made an obnoxious ad of this video, I would've left with a bad impression. If I would live in Connecticut, I would certainly want to sign up with these guys.

[@fiehlsport]

Great tour. I’m in Upstate NY with a similar new small fiber provider and it’s got a lot in common with GoNetSpeed. Great service, low price, huge speeds. I can get 2 or even 5Gbps at my house now, this explains why it’s so easy. :-)

[@Oregonian1]

Very interesting video. I wonder about the energy efficiency of fiber vs. coax. It seems that fiber would be more efficient, but I haven't ever seen a comparison. Might make for a nice follow-up video.

[@thatLion01]

I've been waiting for a video of such nature. Thank you so much :)

[@syrus3k]

I have full fibre internet here in the UK. It's amazing - well worth getting if you can. The extremely low latency, the speed and the reliability are unparalleled.

[@aonforme3455]

It is great to have excellent customer service and delivery of what is expected. I have been installing these systems commercially for decades as a licensed contractor. Good to see new competitors in the residential market. There is more involved to the premises process but pretty much right on. We definitely need more competitors in the ISP market, and I can tell you the legacy providers are extremely overpriced for the bandwidth provided/we pay.

[@KameraShy]

I still remember my first internet connection: dial-up, 14.4k, small company started by a couple kids just out of college. It was only the college kids who knew about this internet thing.

[@jtkachlmeier]

Awesome! See what other places you can tour! I used to work for SPECTRUM as a field service technician. I am very familiar with these terms! Love it! Great content!

[@mindhead1]

Great video. I recently got rid of Xfinity and data caps and signed up with a smaller provider in central Illinois called CTI. Looks like they run the same gear as the company in the video. CTI has provided great customer service. On time and in/out with install in an hour. Service has been rock solid for the 2 months I have had it. I have a Nokia ONT and router configured in bridge mode. My mesh network does the rest. This is the way to go. Comcast had a monopoly in my area. Service was reliable, but the data caps and overage charges were BS. Glad to see some competition in more small communities and rural areas.