I’ll have to get some pictures of the CenturyLink installs now days and post them.
My in-laws are moving into a senior community that has their On FTTH inside to their HVAC room. They are going with Comcast, lol! From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 2:00 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Internal fiber I have not seen a Century Link installation, but you can get a drop cable with basically a 3mm jacketed inner cable inside of it. Then you use 3mm SOC's. The FIS ones are called "Armordillo" and you get a brass tube that crimps over the connector and the 3mm jacket. Then a rubber boot slides over the brass tube. You can do that with no splice boxes inside or outside the house, but the inner cable is no stronger than any other 3mm jacketed cable. On 6/4/2020 12:21 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: I like the look of the RealFlex. What I can’t figure out, maybe also part of this conversation as intended, is if you don’t use a jumper, how are CenturyLink et. al. doing that nice outside plant drop to inside patch/end splice/connection? My guys don’t seem to know how that’s done. I’m guessing it’s an inline splice with some sort of special heat shrink tubing/package that protects the join and provides strain/pull prevention internally? I just don’t get it. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com><mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Carl Peterson Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:14 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com><mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Internal fiber Supposedly the realflex drop cables can be treated like cat5. We're a little more gentle then that with the 3mm ones. You can order in just about any config. i.e plenum, one end terminated, both ends terminated, pull sock on one end, etc. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:10 AM Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com<mailto:cpeter...@portnetworks.com>> wrote: Cheap would be the bow type flat drop - we use them with FRP steel ones are too stiff. Next option would be either 3m of 4.8mm RBR drop cables like MDC-JJ1G-0200FJ On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:25 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: I am planning to run the fiber clear into the 844G router at each home. But in the past when we have done this, we have had issues with people not understanding that the fiber is a bit more delicate than cat5. Then there is the issue with the termination. You can get long jumpers and splice outside in a small enclosure. But replacing the end on the router is a bit more difficult. I have used unicams in the past, but with my new system I am looking for something better. I really need something a bit tougher than jumpers to route through the house. Anything like that exist? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Carl Peterson PORT NETWORKS 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707 -- Carl Peterson PORT NETWORKS 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707
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