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Gallery: what an NBN fibre installation looks like

Posted on Tuesday 14 February 2012 by Dan Warne

Curious to know what it will look like when the National Broadband Network is installed into your house? We've put together this gallery of a fibre installation to give you an idea.

Fibre installation into your home usually happens in two parts, over two separate occasions.This gallery shows both.

The first day, the cable is brought in from the street to the outside wall of your premises. This may happen while the network is being built in your suburb.

Then, at a later point, when you order a service from an internet or phone company, the cable is brought through into your premises and the internal equipment installed.

The NBN installer first has to access the existing ground infrastructure in the street.
The installer feeds cable into a pipe poking in the side of the pit. This pipe runs from the pit to the house that the installer is connecting the NBN fibre service to.
The installer pulls the fibre optic cable through the conduit using a strong twine.
The sheath is removed, revealing the cable.
The installer drills a hole in the exterior wall of the house in preparation for mounting the Premises Connection Device -- a weatherproof box that holds the fibre-optic cable.
The Premises Connection Device is affixed to the wall.
The fibre optic cable is coiled up inside the Premises Connection Device, and connected to a "fibre patch lead" which runs through to the inside of the house.
The Premises Connection Device installed and closed over.
The installer then requests permission to enter the house, and discusses where the internal equipment should be installed.
The installer carefully measures where the equipment should be installed, and cross references that with the position of the Premises Connection Device on the outside of the house.
He drills a small hole in the wall to pull the cable through.
The fibre-optic cable comes through to the interior of the house.
A wall plate is installed to safely accommodate the fibre-optic connection and shield it against accidental damage.
The finished wall plate installed. (The fibre optic outlet is on the left side.)
Then, a mounting plate is installed for the NBN Box (otherwise known as the "Network Termination Unit").
The NBN box is mounted on the wall-plate. This is the fibre equivalent of a modem.
A fibre-optic patch lead is connected to the NBN Box. It will run between the NBN Box and the wall-plate.
The final product: an example of an in-cabinet installation, typically found in all new developments
The final product: an example of an on-wall installation
This is the rear of the NBN Box. On the left hand side, the two "UNI-V" ports are voice telephony ports, into which you can plug any standard telephone. The four "UNI-D" ports to the right provide Internet data. Each of the four ports can be used for a separate internet service. The fibre-optic cable is installed in the hole at the right denoted by the laser warning symbol.

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By Dan Warne, NBN Co Blog Editor

Dan has been a technology journalist for the last 10 years, first with broadband community site Whirlpool.net.au, and later with APC Magazine and Sydney Morning Herald. He has a baby boy, two chocolate labradors, and a fascination with broadband and everything it can make possible. Email: danwarne@nbnco.com.au

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