People in the KC Northeast area have received an email stating the installation goal date is now Summer 2015 and in the KC Northwest area they received an email stating the installation goal date is now Spring 2015.
These are goal dates for the whole area. Specific fiber hoods inside the area, particularly ones that had the highest signup percentage over their goal will likely be installed sooner than the goal dates.
The only information I've been able to get so far on the cause of the delays is that they are having major delays in creating the infrastructure and they are expecting a harsh winter to slow down crews.
Showing posts with label Phase II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phase II. Show all posts
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Google Fiber - Phase II Fiberhood
I went to check out a fiberhood under construction in phase II for KC since I heard they were using different vaults this time.
Looks like they moved away from the NewBasis polymer concrete enclosures to Channell Corp thermoplastic enclosures. Grade Level Boxes (GLB®) for Broadband and Telecommunications
It may be hard to see but they were ordered with the green cover, no logo, stainless steel L-bolt on the large vault and plastic L-bolt on the small vault.
New large vault (Maybe not the best example for a picture - the rest I saw were placed with more care.)
New small vault
LCP with new thermoplastic vault.
This is the same Clearfield FieldSmart Fiber Scalability Center Cabinet that was used before.
The inside of a newly installed LCP. (Before the cassettes and fiber have been installed.)
The splitters are 1:16. This cabinet has 48 distribution fibers coming in that can feed 288 homes (aka access fibers).
Update 4/19/2015:
Outside view of new NID. Not sure if this replaces the old NID or if both are in use now.
Old NID OptiNID 300 DM000795
New NID 3M NID NID-FO-2724
Inside view of new NID before fiber has been spliced to the pigtail.
(i.e. first step of fiber being installed at a house)
Second step - fiber sliced inside the NID is shown on an older blog post here.
Update 5/21/2015:
Google Fiber is going back and replacing some (if not all) of thermoplastic vaults because of issues with vehicles parking on them and causing damage. New areas may be installed with only the polymer concrete vaults.
Looks like they moved away from the NewBasis polymer concrete enclosures to Channell Corp thermoplastic enclosures. Grade Level Boxes (GLB®) for Broadband and Telecommunications
It may be hard to see but they were ordered with the green cover, no logo, stainless steel L-bolt on the large vault and plastic L-bolt on the small vault.
This is the same Clearfield FieldSmart Fiber Scalability Center Cabinet that was used before.
The splitters are 1:16. This cabinet has 48 distribution fibers coming in that can feed 288 homes (aka access fibers).
Update 4/19/2015:
Old NID OptiNID 300 DM000795
New NID 3M NID NID-FO-2724
(i.e. first step of fiber being installed at a house)
Second step - fiber sliced inside the NID is shown on an older blog post here.
Update 5/21/2015:
Google Fiber is going back and replacing some (if not all) of thermoplastic vaults because of issues with vehicles parking on them and causing damage. New areas may be installed with only the polymer concrete vaults.
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