At least on the outside. Several weeks ago the “outside crew” ran one cable with 1 strand from the pole to the side of my house. Today another “outside crew” terminated the house side of the cable into a neat little box that looks somewhat like the boxes from AT&T or Spectrum. Below is a picture of it.

There are still 2 operations to be performed at my location, probably in order. (1) An “outside crew” has to connect the other end of “my” fiber to a splice connector box up on the telephone pole. (2) The “inside crew” has to connect a fiber jumper from the box above, through the wall, into an “ONT box” that converts the fiber to gigabit Ethernet.

The backbone fiber has 144 single-mode fibers while my individual run has just 1 for both in and out. The backbones all end up running to MVECA’s network room. The network is using GPON – short for Gigabit Passive Optical Network. So some number of individual users can use one pair of backbone fibers. This also means that the “front end” of the ONT has to be managed by the network operator, as my ONT has to have an “address” that allows the ONT to recognize my traffic vs. everyone else’s. The passive optical splitter shown in the diagram below is mounted on telephone pole, the optical line terminal (OLT) is back at MVECA and the ONT is inside my house.

Last I knew the MVECA network room was in the AUM building. Certainly it isn’t in MVECA’s interest (nor ours) to publicize its location if it ever moves, for example to MVECA’s office space across the street from AUM.

I’ll ask around to see if I can find out what sort of equipment MVECA will use in its network room. So far it seems that MVECA has pretty significant bandwidth – in the multiple tens, perhaps hundreds, of gigabits – to the larger world.