In pictures: UFB - Chorus Fibre to the Home installation (part III)

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In part 3 of this story, it's time to get connected

Computerworldeditor Sarah Putt has documented the installation of a Chorus Fibre To the Home connection in Albany, Auckland that took place earlier this month. In Part I, we showed how the black cable, which runs from from the External Termination Point outside the house to the roadside cabinet, is joined to the blue cable located in the roadside cabinet, via a Fibre Access Terminal.  In Part II, we headed indoors from the External Termination Point. Once your cables are good to go, it's time to get connected...
 
Step 15

Once the fibre is connected, the installer registers the Subscriber Line ID (SLID) to the system operated by Chorus’s technology partners Alcatel-Lucent.
 
Step 16

The ONT is owned by Chorus and represents the “last part of the network” .
 
Step 17

The ONT is connected to the customer’s modem, in this instance an Orcon Genius modem which enables both a data connection and a Voice Over IP connection (voice service).

Step 18

The speed test reveals an almost symmetrical service of just over 43Mbps. It might have been good news for the customer because he’s signed up for a 30Mbps plan - but there was a hiccup with Orcon’s frimware and it gave an incorrect reading. He is apparently getting the speed he paid for.
 
The End!



See also:
Editorial: What I learned from my fibre field trip.  http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/editorial-what-i-learned-on-my-fibre-field-trip


Published by Computerworld, written By Sarah Putt | Auckland | Thursday, 28 June, 2012
Link to article:  http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/in-pictures-ufb-chorus-fibre-to-the-home-installation-part-iii?opendocument&utm_source=topnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=topnews

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