I've recently ordered l FTTP service from a ISP called ZZOOMM, they're not a big ISP but they have a lot of presence in my town where the've installed their services below is a summary of my installation.
GroundworksIt would appear ZZOOMM use a combination of their own ducts underground and use OR ducts as well, on my street they have dug and placed ducts up to the OR manhole cover and then have laid their cables in the existing OR ducts. In some areas they've used OR's telegraph poles but also they appear to have put toby boxes in the ground outside properties. They have large green cabinets dotted around but there are only 3-4 in a town that serves 10,000 properties so I imagine each cabinet serves a large number of customers.
Order process:Ordering is easy to do online, they have a few options to chose from all speeds are symmetrical.
150Mbs: £33.00 / Month
450Mbs: £44.00 / Month
900Mbs: £66.00 / Month
2000Mbs: £99.00 / Month.
Installation On the day of the installation they come and do a survey first, they walk you around and agree a route for the fiberoptic cable to be routed to a room of your choice and explain how the service will reach your property. They then produce a report with photos which is sent to you with the agreed installation.
After the above, they spend some time using a machine to pull the fiberoptic cable through the underground OR duct through to the property. They then installed a fiberoptic distribution box on the outside of the property
Hardware This then has a separate fiber cable that come out which snakes around the house and goes through the wall to the ONT, the ONT is either an Adtran or Iskratel model they seem to use a 50:50 split.
The ONT plugs in to a Icotera I4882 router which connects via 2.5Gb lan connection.
Results look good so far, I have the 2Gb package but am only getting 1Gb due to the lan connection on my computer, hoping to upgrade to a multigigabit gigabit lan connection to take advantage of the 2Gb connection.
