r/FiberOptics

About a year ago my wife and I downsized into a new home in a somewhat rural area. During the build we had the home wired for easy installation of ceiling mounted APs and I set up a basic UniFi system. During the build we were expecting to use NextLink fiber, but found out later their service ends three houses down the street. Vyve coaxial service was available and over the past year their 1GB/40MB has been very reliable. However, I’ve always wanted to experience fiber’s symmetrical service. Recently Brightspeed and FiberFirst both rolled out fiber to our neighborhood with very competitive offers. Posting in their respective Reddit communities is likely net me mostly unhappy customers. I was hoping some of you working in the industry might have direct experience with the quality of their installations, service reliability and support. Thanks …

Hi all,

I was hoping someone here might have an idea for typical latencies in OADMs (bonus points if anyone has experience with the ones from solid optics)?

Essentially, I'm a scientist using these as spectral filters in an experiment where I'm sensitive to timing disruptions on the sub-nanosecond time scale. I'm finding a null result and one of the causes could be that our OADMs (2 channel, solid optics) are introducing a differential delay of over 3 microseconds. I've never built or seen the inside of an OADM before, but I have a hard time believing that there's over 1km of fiber inside. Especially, to the first drop. If anyone has some more information, it would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers, QoO

Anyone know anything about t-fiber? Somebody I know is moving and offered me their router and said that they’ve never gotten a bill and that when he called to cancel it the company told him that he’s not in their records at all, they can see that he was a metronet customer before they got bought out but he’s not in the new system and they don’t even have a way to deactivate it or anyone to send to pick it up so he just told the dude he’s never gotten a bill either and they acted like they didn’t have anything they could even do. But since my apartment building only uses metronet I figured I might see if it works

Seeking an entry-level Fiber Optic/Telecommunications Field Service Technician position with employer-provided training

Currently Bell Technical Solutions is not hiring technicians. Does anyone know of any companies that are currently hiring and training new technicians?

Hello, I’ve been given the opportunity to get free schooling to become a fiber splicer before that I was interested in becoming an electrician and work under my uncle for a while until I had enough income to create my own company. Now that I’ve gotten the opportunity to get free schooling I want to know if I should take the opportunity or if I’d make more in the electrical field.

For those of you who are Contracted Fiber Splicers. How much do you make gross? Are you independent? Sub-contracted?

I work for an ISP, $42/hr Union, 31(M) Utah. Been flirting with the idea of buying my own gear and switching to contracting. Thoughts & suggestions welcome

I currently do tech support for a school district but have been keeping my options open and saw an opening as a fiber technician. I definitely want to upskill with networking and increase my income so I’m curious on what experiences people have working that type of job. Also what career paths can come from being a fiber technician? Can it lead to networking jobs/roles? The end goal is getting into cybersecurity so getting into a networking role or a sysadmin role is my next goal

I’m an Assistant PM in electrical construction and I’m having trouble understanding fiber optics. Is there any material or online classes that can help me learn ?

I work with a transportation agency and I’m trying to get a sense of the time and cost it would take to relocate BFOC for data centers. My state doesn’t have any hyper scale data centers yet, but they’re coming. Because the permits in state right of way are free, I’m predicting that some fiber infrastructure will be constructed that will eventually need to be relocated for road widening, signals, etc.

I know scheduling and splicing can take months for telecoms, and I imagine it would be similar or longer for data centers. If anyone has any insight on downtime restrictions, cost, or time for data center fiber relocation, it would be much appreciated!

So yeah that’s a thing. Currently being installed from Bonita beach in SW Florida to Columbia. Transfer data center blocks away from the beach cable installation site.
I’m curious why this is necessary. The explanation given in press release says it is to assist in international internet data and communication. So is this a “backup plan”
to safeguard against an EMP or other satellite failure potentiality??