Hi my name is Brian and this channel is about splicing Fiber Optic Cable in Maine ranging from small count loose tube fiber to high count ribbon. Also a small amount of line work on a daily basis along with underground. A day in the life of a Fiber Optic technician and beautiful sights and views of the amazing state of Maine.....THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE!!!!
One of the guys just got this contraption and I said I would look for how to use it. I do not see any plus to this over the conventional jig with glue. The fibers are 100% loose. This is the biggest problem in that right up to the heat shrink you have free fibers that could crisscross creating chances for breakage in the heat shrink. Loose fibers sometimes slide free when using the hot jacket stripper. If this happens, you’re back to square one. Same for a break in a bad cleave. What about fiber mismatches, like with various size terminal tails? There seems to be a huge amount of cleaning that has to happen and if there are tails with uneven lengths, you have a more difficult time loading your tray after trying to keep something from being over stressed at the heat shrink and creating micro ends or breakage.
Interesting looking splice box. We had trailers and did everything in an enclosure “clean environment” that was way back in the beginning when we were installing the initial ring in NJ
@@207splicelife Great job to have. I got out of it because I couldn’t do the traveling and gone all week with a young family. My buddies started Penta in Rahway NJ. I was with them from 2007-2011.
Last year I had to take a FO technician job, I had no choice, is this or flip burguers in a fast food restaurant, I don't realy like this job, I am a computer engineer but passing my 40s, very hard to find a job at my age, but one of the first things I learned about this is to always leave buffer slack, I have seen cases where the cores are broken in the tray and you require to strip more buffer, this is a serious problem with enclousures that use thermal seals.
Now that explains why AT&T internet has been getting lousy over the years. Is because some technicians don't know what they're doing and botched the whole thing.
At the start of the vid, can you show the cables up on the spans before you start, and explain which cable is the trunk you're ring cutting into, and which are the branches you're slicing in, from the perspective of the street? It gives us context into why you're doing this. 😊😊😊
I like it overall. I don’t understand why splicers don’t attach strength members. When I was splicing for over 4 years, new builds, outages, maintenance, there was clear evidence that attaching strength members helped keep the cables from pulling more than only doing hose clamps alone.
Neat video. They installed Point Broadband fiber underground at the street in front of our houses in the subdivision. It's been a month since then and now in the que for them to eventually come out and trench ground from street to house to put box to go inside. They offer 1 gig up and down for about 75 bucks a month. What I do not know is how fast fiber can be upgraded to later? Can existing fiber handle 5 gig speeds years from now or everything has to be rewired? I have Armstrong woodhaven plank for drop ceiling in basement so harder to access later to change things. These fiber companies that install fiber what happens if other fiber companies want to use the line another company installed? Will it be like gas lines where the company that laid it gets a residual for other carriers or would they all want to run their own separate fiber?
Thanks and thats a pretty good deal for high speed internet in my opinion...The fiber itself will handle any speed and should only be the equipment(modem) that would need to be upgraded. Also some companies do lease fiber strands to other companies as well for a monthly fee. But other providers will most likely run their own fiber on the poles in the future as well!!
hey dear i am from bangladesh i work here as fiber optic cable technician may i know in which country are you working may i know in which country are you working
I have about 5 years of experience in splicing fiber optic cables and I also know a little bit about cat six cat five cable connector router configure fiber pooling network device installation.Please give me a job
