Has anyone had a positive experience with this at any point of the process? Everything I see is a cluster.
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I know the engineering teams in the NE tried to fight it except a select few in KY who like to just nod their heads. Everyone knows it cost more but like one engineer told me they hide the money on the success base side which for those that do not know is not a 9 digit WO so execs can't track. If the full amount of the build would be uncovered I am sure the board of directors and TT would have a fit. Oh wait no they wouldn't this is the same group that just gave TT a raise.
Is any other company using this? If not what makes Windstream think it is such a great product? I am a field tech in another region we do not have this in our area but I have only heard bad things. I thought the idea behind placing fiber is once you have the connection to the home you pretty much can walk away as there should be no issues unless mother nature decides to take it out.
I think it's comscope. As best I can tell it's a daisy chain of terminals that contain a prism that splits the incoming light from the first strand of a preconnectorized fiber cable out to multiple ports on that terminal. It's also "wired" to make position 2 on the feed port position 1 on the distribution port. Another preconnectorized cable is run to another terminal , etc etc. So it drops the first strand in the sheath off at every terminal. So strand 4 in first section is strand 3 in second section, 2 in 3rd section and so on.
These are all fired up from a lead splitter which will have multiple routes of these terminals behind it. Possibly multiple lead splitters at one location. So I can foresee parts of town looking like Haiti bell with 50 drops between each pole. That's going to be awesome to put back together after someone plows that pole over in a snow storm. Also we're using this same material in buried and underground environment even though I really thought it was sold for aerial applications. Oh and we're 3 months behind on every order so it's always a crisis. Oh yeah, the budget for the build is 12$, and engineering was outsourced to mozambique and done off Google maps. So just do the best you can.
Fiber indexing -- is that using CommScope fiber cable? I know they've been pushing the idea.
"Armored against rodents and help against tree rubs...you know we quit tree trimming a long time ago."
That's depressing. So preventable.
Most of the 40+ miles of fiber cable between our own facilities is all-dielectric and aerial. It's very reliable except for a squirrel attack maybe once a year. No tree rubs.
But then trim the trees religiously.
Next question -- what's a "P-clamp"
Armored against rodents and help against tree rubs...you know we quit tree trimming a long time ago. Did I mention all the trouble we are seeing in NE as well. I see it daily in the field. Wish I could post a picture you all would roll over laughing at just how ridiculous this looks. We have already received complaints from non customers that they want all the wires taken care of. We have gone back and lashed the cable and drops to make it appear better
"Allo is kicking Windstreams buttttt in NE with their FttP. And guess what it is real fiber shielded cable non of this p-clamp junk."
What's the difference between shielded and unshielded fiber cable? I'm used to working with all-dielectric fiber cable. Is this an armored cable for use against rodents?
Allo is kicking Windstreams buttttt in NE with their FttP. And guess what it is real fiber shielded cable non of this p-clamp junk. JS good buddy who used to be a engineering manager at Windstream works there and he gave them all our trade secrets. I have completed multiple installs and unfortunately have also been a part of multiple disconnects because we can keep the junk up. Why is this not discussed?
I feel for techs who are trying to figure out the design. The whole system is a huge mess
It also is a records nightmare...
Worst design known to man this indexing junk. Nice job our planning and engineering teams coming up with a design that us techs can't test not to mention anyone that knows anything about OSP knows the indexing fiber being unshielded will never hold up long term. The SSP here in NE are laughing all the way to the bank with all the callouts they get. But hey Windstream always tries to outsmart their competition with state of the art designs that end up costing us more and provides a miserable customer experience...lmao... The OSP planner in NE JS loves the design and defends it as out of the box thinking.
Gigabit passive optical network. Basically fiber to the prem. Another one of those things that sounds great but we're executing poorly. At least from my perspective.
What’s GPON?
I thought Windstream was in Bankruptcy