WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.090 --> 00:00:00.960 In this lesson, 2 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:03.240 we're going to talk a little bit about fiber connections 3 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:05.730 for your small office and home office. 4 00:00:05.730 --> 00:00:07.710 Now generally, when you get your fiber connection 5 00:00:07.710 --> 00:00:09.390 from your internet service provider, 6 00:00:09.390 --> 00:00:10.650 they're not going to bring the fiber 7 00:00:10.650 --> 00:00:12.840 all the way directly into your house, 8 00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:14.430 and instead, they're going to provide this 9 00:00:14.430 --> 00:00:18.120 as either fiber to the curb or fiber to the premises. 10 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:20.550 Now we call this FTTX, 11 00:00:20.550 --> 00:00:24.180 where the X means where is that fiber going to be connected to? 12 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:28.140 So if we have FTTC, this is fiber to the curb, 13 00:00:28.140 --> 00:00:29.970 and a fiber to the curb solution means 14 00:00:29.970 --> 00:00:31.680 they're going to run a fiber optic cable 15 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:34.530 from their internet service provider access point 16 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:36.810 over to some place in your neighborhood, 17 00:00:36.810 --> 00:00:39.330 and generally, this is going to be to some sort of a pedestal 18 00:00:39.330 --> 00:00:40.800 that's sitting in your front yard, 19 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:42.810 which is why we call it fiber to the curb 20 00:00:42.810 --> 00:00:45.270 because that pedestal is usually sitting on the curb 21 00:00:45.270 --> 00:00:46.530 or close to your curb 22 00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:49.680 and not directly attached to your building or your house. 23 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:51.540 Now if you're going to be able to get that fiber 24 00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:52.860 all the way to your house, 25 00:00:52.860 --> 00:00:57.210 we call this fiber to the premises, or FTTP. 26 00:00:57.210 --> 00:00:59.670 Generally, if you're working for a large organization 27 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:01.860 and you contract for a fiber optic cable, 28 00:01:01.860 --> 00:01:05.220 you're going to get FTTP or fiber to the premises 29 00:01:05.220 --> 00:01:06.810 where they're going to bring it all the way up 30 00:01:06.810 --> 00:01:10.410 and into your demarcation point inside of your building. 31 00:01:10.410 --> 00:01:12.750 Now when you're dealing with fiber to the premises, 32 00:01:12.750 --> 00:01:14.160 you have that fiber optic connection 33 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:15.900 going all the way into your building 34 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:19.140 and it's going to connect into a device known as an ONT 35 00:01:19.140 --> 00:01:21.360 or optical network terminal. 36 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:24.390 Now these ONTs or optical network terminals 37 00:01:24.390 --> 00:01:25.980 are going to be physical devices 38 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:28.500 that allow you to convert the optical signal coming in 39 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:31.530 over the fiber optic connection to an electrical one, 40 00:01:31.530 --> 00:01:33.510 and then, that is going to be connected 41 00:01:33.510 --> 00:01:36.360 to your router using some sort of a patch cable, 42 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:39.720 normally an RJ45 copper twisted pair cable 43 00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:42.060 or possibly a fiber patch cable 44 00:01:42.060 --> 00:01:44.550 depending on your router and your equipment. 45 00:01:44.550 --> 00:01:47.280 Now if you have fiber to the curb on the other hand, 46 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.340 you're going to have fiber only out as far as that pedestal, 47 00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:52.500 and then, the connection from the pedestal 48 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:53.820 into your premises 49 00:01:53.820 --> 00:01:57.210 is going to usually be done using a copper connection. 50 00:01:57.210 --> 00:01:58.800 This copper could be a shielded 51 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:02.340 or unshielded twisted pair cable using an RJ45 connector. 52 00:02:02.340 --> 00:02:05.640 Or in some hybrid fiber coaxial solutions, 53 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:07.830 it's going to be using a coaxial cable 54 00:02:07.830 --> 00:02:10.650 to go from the curb up into your premise, 55 00:02:10.650 --> 00:02:12.180 and then once it's in your premise, 56 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:15.540 it will connect to a modem that will then convert 57 00:02:15.540 --> 00:02:17.970 that signal coming in over the coaxial cable 58 00:02:17.970 --> 00:02:20.130 or the UTP STP cable 59 00:02:20.130 --> 00:02:21.900 and convert it into something that your router 60 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:24.300 and your home network can then use. 61 00:02:24.300 --> 00:02:28.770 As a technician, you're going to be seeing FTTC and FTTP 62 00:02:28.770 --> 00:02:30.930 much more often than you have in the past 63 00:02:30.930 --> 00:02:32.670 because there is a widespread movement 64 00:02:32.670 --> 00:02:34.170 across the United States 65 00:02:34.170 --> 00:02:36.150 to roll our additional fiber capability 66 00:02:36.150 --> 00:02:38.670 to people's houses or to their curbs 67 00:02:38.670 --> 00:02:40.380 to be able to provide them faster internet 68 00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:42.300 from their home offices. 69 00:02:42.300 --> 00:02:45.690 For example, in my home office, I have AT&T fiber, 70 00:02:45.690 --> 00:02:47.190 which provides me with a one gigabit 71 00:02:47.190 --> 00:02:48.420 per second connection up 72 00:02:48.420 --> 00:02:50.850 and a one gigabit per second connection down 73 00:02:50.850 --> 00:02:53.160 and that is actually fiber to the premise 74 00:02:53.160 --> 00:02:55.350 where a fiber optic cable was run all the way in 75 00:02:55.350 --> 00:02:58.233 to my home office on the second floor of my house.