I think an important point for pre-wire and residential real estate developers to consider is also the conflicting needs of keeping things "neat and tidy" and last mile CPE location vs wifi coverage.

Your typical new build residential construction will have something like this in it for telecom purposes:

https://imgur.com/RDMn6px

Or like this:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F65wgbfel14m91.jpg

And then people install their ISP CPE in it and an 802.11ac (or ax) 2x2 or 3x3 router, often this is the same device, and wonder why their performance is bad because the wifi AP happens to be **inside a box with a metal door on it**.

Or the ISP tech knows better and tells people that their wifi coverage will be terrible with the CPE inside of the box, so some sort of hack-job is necessary to get power and ethernet to the location where the dual-band AP can be located for optimal whole-home coverage.

Some of these now are all plastic and don't block as much 5 GHz signal, so it's not quite as bad...





On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:46 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:

You've misunderstood the goal.

The intent is not to protect the fiber, but to make it easier for the
field tech installing new service in a neat way through finished
construction and concealled raceways, without cutting sheetrock or
stapling exposed cabling across walls.

Trying to prevent the next "bad fiber install" set of pictures.

U.S. NEC does not require any mechanical protection for fiber cables.  You
can run "bare" fiber cables through most residential spaces (with a few
exceptions for jacket material, i.e. direct burial cable not allowed
inside habital spaces).  Building codes may vary in other countries.

On the other hand, do some searches for "bad fiber install" for many
examples of fiber installers stapling fiber around the outside of houses
or zip-tied to gas pipes.



On Tue, 5 Dec 2023, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> Looks like over priced residential inner duct to me. Sheet rock accomplishes
> pretty much the same thing. I want reliable home Internet too, but it’s not
> a CO. I’d install a PVC sleeve on the OSP to ISP transition. The risk of
> outage isn’t going to materially move one way or the other as far as I can
> tell.