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Looks like it's just regular Corrugated HDPE conduit you can get from Innderduct, Duraline, Carlon, etc, just make sure it's rated for in-ground use if you use it though - a lot of the stuff out there is ment to go inside a larger smoothwall HDPE duct.

Project Cleawater, open source IMS being developed by Metaswitch. Can spin it up on AWS or a hypervisor of your choice and play around with it.

An Arris C4c - small deployment of <500 subs

We had good luck with our Casa, sadly though we had to remove it as there were issues getting it working properly @ Docsis 3 speeds, but for 2 it worked well. Like wise it replaced our UBR as well.

If it's a masonry one it's legal, had many inspected retro fit jobs passed that way - but yeah don't do it on a metal chimney.

First floor as you said is pretty simple, find where you want the jacks, cut your hole and drill up from the basement. Bit size is between 5/16" and 3/4" depending on what needs to be pulled. Something like this makes finding where to drill a bit easier too, though it's not required. Second...

They do 12v as well as -48v Like these.

Cyberpower makes wall mount ones for telco applications - however they convert from AC > DC so you'd most likely have to make your own power cord and hope they have one with the voltage you need. Also no ethernet for mgmt. So most likely won't work but still an option

I've worked for some smaller ones (~6 exchanges, <8k customers total, exchanges ranged from ~500-1500 in population) and it's a pretty varied job, need to know more then how to pull cable. A lot of the jobs we end up doing depends on the individuals skill set. A couple of our guys are older TDM...

1) Service Provider 2) Programming/Scripting in general, something I'm starting to get more into 3) Currently no, outside of our softswitch none of our gear has an API to interact with and changes are minimal enough that we can do this manually for the time being.

Can't comment on the quality of any of the items, the cleaver appears to be Sumitomo (or a knock off) which I've used in the past before I upgraded to the Fujikura CT-38 and it worked well enough, few bad cleaves here and there but I figure most of that was from a bad spot on the blade. All the...

Emerson may be one to take a look at as I've heard good things about them. Sadly 90% of the stuff I deal with is DC powered so I'm not much help.

Most cables are spec'd @ 4x the OD radius of the cable. so cat6 would be something like a 1.2-1.5" radius. Honestly I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Correct, just finished our last one - be about 2 years before it's all cut over.

Start of a network upgrade at work though it may not look like much yet. Still quite a bit left so hopefully I can get a few more pictures, though most of it's just orange pipe and dirt so it's not too exciting yet. Looks like a shipment of vaults, handholes and interduct has shown up -...

No need to go w/ direct bury cable, that stuff is usually filled with a powder/gel based water blocking compound and can make a mess over time. Likewise no need for anything with a ground, just get regular old UTP Cat5e. Our FTTH installs at work we run the lines inside 99% of the time, mostly...

They take an RJ48C, not an RJ45 - they use the same 8p8c plug but are wired differently.

We use TE Connectivity, used them in our FTTH installs for the last few years and had no issues.

That's the norm for quite a few places - most DirectTV/Dish install I've seen is done that way. Last company I worked for on our FTTH installs we did we drill a 1" hole and then install an LB + conduit to the ONT housing to run power + 5 cat5e's in. Current company we drill a 3/4" hole upward...

Converted it to Cat5 or ethernet?

That's what ULA's are for.

sipcli if you're a windows shop or sipcmd or pjsua if you're a *nix shop should get you started, a lot of it will depend on what you use for a phone system and what you use for your alerting software.

Small update from one of my current projects: Spicing fiber. Violet on the left has been cleaved and ready for splicing, Blue on the right is in the process of getting cleaved. Just a temp drop for a house, so nothing fancy. 4 reels of 96 fiber and 1 reel of 144 fiber, ~20,000 ft per...

Did you mean a V1910-24g? If so that can do inter-vlan routing as per this. Layer 3 routing Static IPv4 routing &#8212; provides basic routing (supporting up to 32 static routes and 8 virtual VLAN interfaces); allows manual configuration of routing and it supports ACL's to control what...

Most major network vendors should have some sort of a hub and spoke VPN option, though I'm not sure which ones besides Cisco's DMVPN allow sending traffic directly between spokes. I'd assume they're all pretty similar making use of mGRE tunnels, NHRP, and your IGP for choice. Granted this is...

Or you're someone who knows how these things work from the Service Provider side of things. Using other unadvertised IP space has been going on for a while, the DoD owned space is just commonly used since the 7.0.0.0/8 won't likely be given back to ARIN for reallocation. Sprint is another...

Through the wonders of DHCP Snooping. On the DSLAM/OLT's from Calix I work with a users port is set to dynamic by default, when the client on the other side of that port is given an IP via DHCP it adds it to it's association table and only allows traffic from that IP. For static IP's For static...

I've got 16/8 for $43.50 from Cedar Falls Utilities

Either EPoN or XG-PoN assuming you're using the 7360 series stuff from Alcatel, doubt you'd deploy something as outdated as GPoN. Speeds will end be being based off how large of a splitter you use, if it's XG-PoN or EPoN, or if you run them symmetrical/asymmetrical. 1x64 split will net you 160...

What vendor are you using for OLT/ONT's? AE or some type of PON?

Most likely one of it's uses, doubtful it was ment for deployment in a CO. There's plenty of Ethernet ones too. Middle shelf there is an AFC/Tellabs UMC 1000 - fed by fiber in this picture (5th card from the right, 2 on the far right are the PSU cards, 2 next to that are the CPU cards, others...

Like this? Might not be the exact one you need but I'm sure mouser has it if you look around some. As far as voltage goes you should be fine, we've had some dslams running under -48v for a few days while we waited on some spare parts and didn't notice any ill effects. Just need a terminal...

That'd be the ONT, can probably just call them up and ask them to switch it to ethernet and plug your own cable into it.

like these? http://www.computercablestore.com/CAT5e_8P8C_Modular_Connec_catID2123.aspx Prep your cable, stick it in the load bar, cut to length, insert into 8p8c plug and crimp.

Small company so not a huge deployment, the 576 ports from a full 12x48 chassis should cover the customers in town. Rural customers will most likely get gpon since we already have fiber laid out to remote cabinets for them. After this one is done we've got 4-5 more exchanges to do that are...

^^ Pretty much that. We use them for our FTTH buildout, using active ethernet vs pon/gpon. One ethernet port is on a vlan for data and one is on a vlan for IPTV. The STB's are hooked to the switch and are able to communicate with our middleware for AAA purposes.

Been a while since I've posted some photo's, installing these and the other hardware that goes with it has been keeping me busy. Calix 716GE ONT on top, UPS under it, and an 8 port switch for IPTV behind it.

Quite a few places sell them, just search for cat 5 load bars and you'll get a bunch of places you can get them from.

WARNING: Incoming wall of text The precursor to the internet, ARPANET, was build by the DoD and there was some legislature that Al Gore passed that helped create what we know as the internet today but it wasn't subsidized by the government. However many landline companies and now wireless...

That's how I do it if it's 2+ lines or the customer needs room for expansion. For 1 line easy enough to just use bridge clips and be done with it. As far as the OP's question goes the cheapest way to do it would be to run your new lines back to where the phone line comes in, cut it and splice...