Splicing a fiber drop 

From the viewpoint of a retired industrial electrician familiar with solid state controllers, this is truly amazing.

Barely starting out in this field as a ground hand, I watched this video to get an idea of what I was getting myself into.. I was so intimidated watching this. It's been four months and I've been running them lashers, blowing the fiber, figure eights, digging trenches, setting anchors, peds, handholes, working in oilfield... Learning the ropes... WASNT what I expected at all. One day a splicer needed a hand.. that was me.. I saw him do all of this. Watching your video now, makes so much more sense and it's soo less intimidating now! Thank you for this. I appreciate it!! Good job.

Was NOT recommended by RU-vid, I was actually looking for it. Thanks, it was interesting.

This is the kind of thing that I want to see on the internet, very cool. Keep it up!

I worked at an internet company for a while doing things like splicing, installing ONTs & installing drops on homes that were upgrading to fiber. Wish I had had this training video when I first started. Very informative 👍🏻

Thanks for making this video! I work in IT, but have little experience with fiber, nice to see how a splice is done. Can't wait for the next video.

You haven't lived till you've made the perfect 12 strand ribbon then realized you forgot the heat shrink.

I am looking at starting with a company doing fiber and cable installs after working 7 years in gas distribution. This was very informative and easy to understand

Just started my fiber splicing journey today. Got 12 years into the osp side of things. Time to switch gears!

Wow, this is so confusing its amazing how humans come this far to create all this technology so far, i want to do this but it would take me time to learn, i know cable and satellite but this is beyond that, good job

A close up fibre splicing Good video 🥇🕺

Now I understand the ego of a fiber Tech when faced with the overdriven ego of a cable tech... Fiber is so much more fun.

For these days we don't need to strip fiber manually cuz the fusion splicer has everything on it, but I salute you for your hard work sir❤

Thank you for this amazing video. I'm actually going to be starting training for an ISP in my area, but getting to know the basics before I go in and watching you use your tools makes me feel more at ease with your explanations. Thank you for a great video.

So many people seem so amazed by this lol. This is like the pretty much the absolute end of the line when it comes to fiber to the home. All the tools you use to do this everything is already setup when you buy it to strip 250/900 cladding/coating, and cleaver is factory set as well. The actual interesting stuff is where this distribution line meets the splitter cabinet, and from the splitter cabinet to the trunk line, then the actual trunk to the CO. Im not sure how many times this fiber is split, I would assume at least 32 times. That is the cool stuff. Then for major crazy density in major cities they use DWDM for backhauling absolutely astronomical amounts of data over many wavelengths... and well, every cell tower I worked on has DWDM at the base to separate the providers over wavelengths instead of routing. I miss splicing a bit... was always fun working in crazy crowded splice cases with furcation tubing everywhere, the hours were just absolutely nutty though.

I've watched entire process live when I took my FTH connection. Yep , it was all surprising 😱

Holy shit this is not what I expected splicing to be like but It definitely exceeded my expectations.

When I learned to splice fiber the system was in a huge trunk and weighed 80 pounds. We fused them together. Pain in the butt and slooooowwwww. New systems now anyone can do it.

I don't know what you are doing bet I just can not stop watching

Looks like fun we used to run the cable itself in the ground and somebody else would come back behind us and terminate it.👍✌

thank you i learn some thing about fiber optic from you

You, sir, gave a lot of people a job.

I'm guilty myself but use flush cuts on those zip ties. Snips leave a sharp edge. The next guy will curse you when he leaks.

Love these tiny splicers, I have a Sumitomo Type-36, the thing is a beast, and it's stupid case weight 3 times what the splicer weights. I just don't do enough fiber to invest in a new one. Next time I have a big fiber job, I'll try to build the cost of a new one in.

Nice, Fiber connection is the hot stuff these days here in Israel

I am 2 years late , but damn ! That seems like alot of effort for just 1 splice , i have been doing fibre optics on the largest networks in africa. Here we it works different . You put your fibre into the little measuring bank ( dunno what to call it ) and then you strip off color coat and then putting that little bank back into cleaver to get your 90 degree cut , and finally you take that bank and place it into the machine , where as we individually strip the protective (color coat) from each fibre place it into the cleaver and using the bank that is attached to the cleaver , cleave it ( after cleaning with pressurised isopropyl) and then take your bare fibre out of the cleaver and place it into the splicer.

Cool seeing my job being done in the USA, does USA not have PPE?

Am I understanding this right that there is many fiber "drops" coming from the "main" and then they splice them up, each for every house? Then we are gaming on this fibernetwork, this fragile glass. Amazing!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Flush Cut The Zip Ties! LOL Is this resi? Lots of nice fiber runs. I wish this was my neighbourhood.

Alot more goes into it opposrd to coaxil. The cable days were easy lol. Had it down to around 3 minutes for landing a drop. From taking the ladder off the truck to putting it back on the truck.

was sorta looking found this, I just went almost 2 weeks without internet, thanks to tv cable company digging putting in new lines, & cut main trunk line of the phone system of fiber optic for my whole area, im in rural area, only way to get internet is through phone, cell service doesnt exist until I drive 5 miles toward town. tv company wants to change and provide internet eventually

What do you do with the garbage you cut from the fibre? do you vacuum the lawn? or just leave it for some kid to get hurt on?

Very, very awesome video

Please tell me, what is that blue adhesive sheet for protection? Where can I find it? A link please if you can. Thank you

all fun and games until thunderstorm

Is that single mode or multimode? always single mode if a long way back to the office right? Multi inhouse stuff only usually? Sorry I'm new.

Thanks for examplefor howto joinedtow fiber

Wonder how much that tool cost.

ive been working with Fibre for nearly 15 years now and i cant believe how the kits outside the UK are so basic and the fibre wrapped away messy as hell.

Hello , whats the excact name of the tool tha you hold the fiber ?

What's the bandwidth of one of those fibers?

Excellent

Cute little machine, I've only use Fujikura machines, 70s i great :)

Did he say cook it some more??

The irony of using a cat-5 box for a fiber desk.

I can do it. Where do i sign up for a job?

I am from India I am telecom fiber saplicer 5 years

Good job me also work this in Malaysia

This is my future career.

enjoyed it.

If man swallow fiber core small bit then what happens

I've been a Low Volt Tech for a few years now and never done fiber. I had no idea there were multiple smaller fibers in the cable, I thought it was just one fiber strain.

Now I know to splice fiber. You guys hiring?

04:49 ooops:))) hi Bro, nice job. I am optical fiber spliser too, about 4 years, but in Ukraine. May i ask You about how much money do fiber spliser workers make(earn) in a day or in a week or months etc? in the start of their career and after few years, for example? thank You very much! really enjoy this video!

Try doing this from a ladder, in 0 degree weather, with wind. Not much fun !! hahaha

How do you work during the rain ??

Indonesia terima kasih

Can you tell me model of cleaver?

Cool, now can you do that at my house.... oh yeah we don't have fiber yet because comcast blows balls.

How much did that fusion splicer cost you? I need one of those.

Lol i always use the blue one 😌

In this video I learned how to throw the tools without breaking a fiber

Can fiber cable be directly conected to the router and internet acces?

nice splicer.... splicer name pls

Как неаккуратно уложено( Даже не вымерял волокно толком. Но метод хранения и доступа к кассетам объясняет почему так все уложено)

Price of this machine

5:05 you can hear a darn wood pecker chirping up.

Which splicing machine you are using in this video?

what's the model of your directional meter which you used?

Blue, orange, green, brown, slate, white......

Cool but this would feed a whole neighborhood, right? Nobody in Phoenix has their own fiber drop at their home, that would be crazy, you'd get like >1gbps, which would be insanely fast

yt recommendations: wanna see a guy do networking stuff?

How do you find work fiber splicing?

Fiber will be 250 and drop will be a 900? What does that mean?

Goooood 🧐💯💯💯💯💯

Have you ever ran fiber optic straight into the house no cat or switching to copper just bring it right up to the wallplate

Machine ka Model kn sa hy

Fusion splicer core fiber optic..

Magandang BUHAY

What kind of splice fusion machine is that?

Great video, but worst tool ever for cutting cable ties. Left razor sharp. Knipex Super Knips or similar are required.

Thank you. Looks like tedious work. Not what you want to be doing when it is real cold as you probable could not do that with gloves on.

how many little fiber lumps have you got in your fingers.

I hate techs like this. Measure your fiber before you splice it and the tray would be a lot cleaner and easier for the next tech behind you. Shame that people don’t take pride in their work. So many things wrong with the way things were prepped and routed.

iam fighting with Lan :D....

lieur aing...

Just saying, the dudes throwing around a ten thousand dollar splicer on the flimsy box

copper: put wire together and add some eletrical tape or something fiber: ACTUAL SCIFI WITCHCRAFT

today's episode on why was i recommended this

Almost 7 years as a fiber technician. from nepal.

why youtube recommend this vid to me..? btw it's interesting

All of this delicate, intricate work gone when some idiot doesn't watch where he's going and crashes into the pedestal 😢

Thats so delicate, he strips it and everything. crazy.

The amount of useful information I learned from this one video is astounding. I was fortunate to build copper networking in my school, and saw a handful of initial installs of fiber lines. It is awesome how much has progressed, so more than ultra specialized roles can manage fiber.

Title misleading. Thought he was going to strip in front of the fiber.

hey youtube algorithm.... doctor says i need more fiber.

You guys were at my Mom's house today putting up most of the line and I can't wait until we get the internet! I'm so excited, especially my Mom!

Very nice, i did something similar on my channel. We are using in Europe different splice protection. Greetings from Munich

20 years ago, my fusion splicer was much, much larger. I kinda miss this work.