How does AT&T fiber get into house?
AT&T fiber provides internet service through a fiber optic cable network instead of copper cables, thereby achieving faster internet connection. If you’re a homeowner and you’re interested in availing of the services provided by AT&T Fiber, then it may seem like a tedious task but it is not as complicated as you think. Here is an overview of how AT&T fiber gets into your house.
The Journey Begins
It starts with the main fiber optic cable on a telephone pole or below the road on your street. Off the main line, there is a dedicated line that is either strung aerially from the pole directly to your home or buried until it reaches your property line. If used as an aerial wire, the line extends up to extra poles or is taken through conduits to ensure it reaches your home safely. If this one is to be run underground, it is taken in a trench to where it resurfaces, not very far from the outside wall of the house.
Entry Point Planning
Once the work begins, no digging occurs without a prior consultation with the homeowner and an AT&T technician to decide the best point of entry for the fiber line considering how easy it will be to get into the house and how the wire will look like. It also enters most homes at the electric meter location or the cable TV entry point. When the fiber entry is to be relocated to a new position on the home exterior, specific care is required if the house is sided with vinyl siding or stucco.
The technicians will also inform the residents of an appropriate location within the premises for the ONT to be fitted. This is a small enclosure measuring approximately 10 inches in height and 8 inches in width and it receives the light signals coming from the two fiber cables on its top and translates these into electrical signals for use by your equipment. In new construction homes specifically designed for AT&T fiber, an ONT space might have already been determined.
Trench Time
That settles it, time to start trenching Now that we know where the entry point will be, it is time for trenching. For buried optical fibers, ground-trenching of about 2 to 3 inches width and 12 to 18 inches depth is made from the fiber line up to the entry point at the house. If installed aerially, the conduit carrying the fiber line may further extend onto your property and attach other poles or it can go underground through trenched method to the home entry point.
Gaining Entry
The fiber line and ONT wiring are connected to a specific entry location and the siding or the exterior wall surface is then cut and finished with appropriate edges to give access into your home. When cutting on stucco homes, the right equipment used is a diamond rotary blade that is best suitable for cutting through that hard material without it cracking. There are some limitations regarding the usage of fibers; for example, there may be some need to repair walls once the fibers are applied.
Fibers Meet ONT
Once the pathway has been created via the wall, the fiber optic cables are pulled to the interior location of the ONT. Slack is left in the wall cavity to accommodate some degree of movement in future fiber/ONT installation and maintenance. The fibers are fusion spliced to the ONT using a high-quality optical fusion splicer to obtain a nice signal connection.
Connecting to Your Devices
From the ONT, ethernet cables are taken where the router or WiFi access points are to extend the internet signal to all the devices you have. You have electric service panels just like a light fixture, and the power for the ONT is taken from them. It does not consume any significant amount of power; it only requires as much power as a night light hence the energy costs are insignificant.
Completion Process
When all the linkages have been established, the ONT and the Internet services are electronically enabled and connected and an AT&T technology conducts tests to ensure that it is functioning optimally with the help of tests and speed tests. They can configure your smart home services, WIFI network SSID, and passwords and guarantee that all your devices can seamlessly attain 1Gbps (and up to 5Gbps) of blazing-fast speed.
That is all – now you sit back and wait for the AT&T fiber installation, and we are ready to offer the largest fiber network in the country to your home, as well as the internet speed that can be delivered today!
I hope this helped you understand the major steps taken when fiber by AT&T is brought into the home. The process leads to the usage of almost impenetrable fiber optic strands to transmit gigabits of data, free from the hindrances of vintage copper cables. Greetings, dear friends! Here we all are in the twenty-first century, where we are experiencing the benefits of advanced networking. Bon voyage to the streaming, surfing, and all your digital diversions, let it all begin at the speed of light!
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