For at least the pilot program there won’t be a lot of installation assistance from the Village or its contractors. I’ll be documenting what I did to make their four-ethernet-port ONT offering into something useful.

As I’ve dug into what the village is proposing the topic becomes larger than one web page. So I’ve divided the topic into the following topics. If you don’t care to become a networking guru then maybe only the default configuration page will be of interest. But there’s some interesting capabilities in what the village is offering and my intent is to provide some entry-level guidance on how you might make use of these capabilities.

In the meantime I’ll relate what I find out as I can. I’m going to assume we end users only have access to the inside (ethernet-based) part of the network. The major component that serves as the connector between the village’s fiber network and the user’s ethernet network is a small box called an ONT (Optical Network Terminal). The village will provide (at least during the pilot) either the DZS 2428B1 or the DZS2424A1. They both provide 4 GB hardwire ethernet ports, while the B1 also provides WIFI. I think I finally found the configuration manual for these units. My manual (downloadable, printable, scrollable, enlargeable) shown below refers to zHone units. As it happens, zHone became DZS in 2016, and I assume the manual is appropriate. We’ll see.