Wow, finally have some answers to how fiber internet is able to offer such high speed options. Mind blowing to see that one strand of fiber can feed up to 64 customers! Every town in America needs to start running fiber as required infrastructure. Thanks Lon for this.

@James_Knott

Жыл бұрын

Fibre uses between carriers and ISPs can now do 800 Gb, with 1.6 Tb around the corner. They'll have several wavelengths or "colours" of light in the infrared range, with each wavelength typically running 200, 400, or 800 Gb. A cable will have many fibre strands to carry a *LOT* of data.

@CantankerousDave

Жыл бұрын

Telecom lobbyists have been hard at work throwing around “campaign donations” for the past decade to get municipal broadband outlawed. They’ve succeeded in some cities.

@wiziek

Жыл бұрын

not reallly ,64 customer that depends if they are using gpon

@wiziek

Жыл бұрын

@@James_Knott this is core network or interconnect, while end user is using same fiber, electronics are different

@appleeimac

Жыл бұрын

64 is only a start. I believe there is such a thing as a 256 way split.

GoNetSpeed was smart to do this video. It's super informative and puts them in a pro-consumer light. Even if you don't have fiber in your area, you can understand why deploying it takes so long. It's an uphill battle against the big guys, but I really commend them for doing the right thing to add competition. No one should be comfortable knowing their cable/DSL speeds have not changed in many years when there IS a better solution out there.

@dvanomaly420

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately there is some misinformation in the video. XGSPON is time-division multiplexed, not wavelength. There is clearly a fundamental misunderstanding of how the technology works here. Each PON standard uses a unique set of wavelengths, which allows it's various versions to be multiplexed on the same strand. Each strand connected to an OLT port is limited by the maximum throughput of the standard in use. In this case XGSPON is ~ 10Gbps symmetrical. The more data those other 63 to 127 neighbors use, the slower your own connection becomes. Wavelengths multiplexing has been around for a long time, and could certainly be done here. I'm sure they considered WDM solutions. However, they decided to go with PON instead. Likely to reduce CPE deployment complexity, and overall infrastructure costs. This is what a budget-conscious fiber rollout looks like. One that prioritizes quantity over quality/throughput.

@chrisbullock6477

Жыл бұрын

The other providers top guys don't know enough to talk about what they offer and the tech behind it like their guys on the ground sadly and PR and Lawyers won't let them speak...

@BlueRice

5 ай бұрын

yes. need more smaller guys here jumping into the game. it will put big cable provider to force them to go fiber as well

@dennisp8520

3 ай бұрын

@@dvanomaly420 Budget concious fiber builds are done by even the larger companies. Verizon was doing exactly this originally when FIOs was first introduced with BPON then to GPON. However, they ran into capacity issues. So they started reducing the number of houses served by node from 128 to 64 to 32 and now in current day its 16 in most places. The exception being in XGPON upgraded areas seeing the higher speed tiers being provided

Hi Lon, glad Tom honored your request for telling us subs how these fiber ISP's plumb their networks to the customer base. Thirty miles without any boost is an amazing feat for an optical pulse. GoNetSpeed looks like a class act in my book.

@wiziek

Жыл бұрын

amazing? you have any idea how fiber works?

@Zinojn

Жыл бұрын

@@wiziek do you? Fiber can’t run forever without proper equipment. No your signal from your home isn’t going to other continents without huge infrastructure to make that happen…

@deepspacecow2644

Жыл бұрын

Thank Nokia

Now this is an ad I enjoyed to watch. The guy knows what he's talking about, no sugar coating or lies.

I'm moving into a new home in CT on 4/1 and I was very happy to see that GoNetSpeed was available at the new address. Well timed video, I'm planning on signing up for their service.

@bluetonight17

Жыл бұрын

Check if Frontiers 5 gig is available and price out the two.

@maxshadow...

24 күн бұрын

@@bluetonight17 Frontier is HORRIBLE!

This was fascinating to watch. In my home state of Missouri, the rural electric cooperatives have started laying fiber and providing fiber internet to their customers. My parents are two very satisfied customers of one such cooperative. Outages have been minimal and resolved quickly. Before this, they were limited to wireless internet which was only a few Mbps down and 1-2 Mbps up. Now they get 100 Mbps symmetrical. 1 Gpbs service is also available where they live. They also bundled their TV with their internet for around $80 per month. The picture quality is unbelievable and they have whole-home DVR. More companies laying fiber forces cable companies to improve their infrastructure to compete which means we all win as consumers. Thanks for the tour, Lon.

@jason00794

Жыл бұрын

I'm in Missouri also. it's crazy how many different fiber ISPs companies have popped up in the last few years. While I do have access to Charter Spectrum with good speeds in my mostly rural town, I dropped them immediately when the fiber rolled through. Faster symmetrical speeds for less.

@Bill_N_ATX

7 ай бұрын

You are lucky to be in Missouri. In Maryland, the phone and cable companies paid the state legislators to pass a law prohibiting the local governments and electric cooperatives from constructing fiber infrastructure. Couldn’t have any competition. I was working with the city utility and we were in the process of getting bids to do it when they passed the law.

What an awesome and informative video. The fact that one of GoNetSpeed's executives would take the time and and effort and agree to go on video with your channel speaks volumes of their mindset towards consumers. Very cool. Can't imagine one of the big legacy TeleComm companies ever doing that.

Just dumped Spectrum Cable for Gateway Fiber here in the St. Peters, Missouri area. They bored the new trunk down my street in mid December, performed my initial temporary install two weeks ago and another crew came back yesterday and buried the temporary drop. Couldn't have been easier and faster. And best of all, I dropped the "evil" Spectrum Cable at $85.00 a month internet, for $65.00 a month at 300 Mbps which is their slowest speed, but it's all I need. And they let me keep my existing ORBI mesh system since I have a lot of port forwarding going on with cameras, etc.. It's simply amazing technology. Thank you Lon for sharing this with us.

Lon, this is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. I've only toured an old school dialup ISP that used to exist here, eNet, and I look forward to the day we get fiber throughout our area. Frontier has been running a ton in the area, but everyone is elusive on when it's becoming available to the area. Hoping Spectrum does something, or does a DOCSIS 3.1 or 4 high split. Also, tell this gentleman to open up shop in Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, and I'll help him interface with the township. We need this, and I love how he anticipates capacity needs properly. 😊

It was very nice for Tom to give such a great tour of the operations and to discuss the complete distribution process. I wish we had GoNetSpeed available in my area. 👍

I work in a video distribution hub, and it's all fed via fiber. I've wondered how this all works. Lon, thanks so much for this educational video! The speed vs. size of cable is just incredible! Now I'm hoping somebody gets this available to my house! And thanks to Gonetspeed for showing us how the magic works!

30 Year veteran in the carrier space and the changes over that time have been massive. I started in the residential space eventually joining the development team for Optimum Online in the 1990's. Glad to see new companies coming in creating competition in that space where it would have been impossible less than a decade ago.

@trackvbwrx

Жыл бұрын

Wow you’re old, that’s sweet! I’ve been with Suddenlink since I graduated High School in 2021. I started as an installer in December, became Outside Plant Maintenance in September once we became Optimum, and now I’m about to start as a Lineman for a contractor that builds for Segra, Windstream, Optimum, and Comcast.

@boomsig9069

Жыл бұрын

@@trackvbwrx Congrats! Get those certifications and never stop learning! Another thing, never take shortcuts gaffing any poles or working around the lines. Please be safe. Do that, and before you know it, you'll be gray haired and online giving well wishes to the young folks.

Well good for GoNetSpeed. Good for you for finding a company to talk to. Best wishes to this company

You have been knocking it out of the park with your recent videos about costs of different content providers, ISPs and this tour of a fiber ISP. Your presentations really are, as you say, clear and concise with so much information packed into short videos. And with your excellent communication skills and your voice, the videos are so engaging.

20 years ago, in a previous life, I did all of that. Not much has actually changed, faster and smaller for sure and fiber is now reaching the home. Loved that time, it felt like been a pioneer :)

Terrific video Lon. I really enjoyed the behind the scenes of the ISP. Very interesting how it all comes together and does come across similar to home networks only scaled up tremedously with redundancy and higher grade equipment

I really enjoyed this video. Loved how he explained everything. I also love how you asked the questions. I saw similar videos before but never had it this informative. I felt like I learned so much from watching your interview. Wish if they had service here in Winchester Virginia.

Lon, Thank you so much for the behind the scene tour of a fiber ISP. I enjoy your channel - and the variety of content and depth into technical areas. Also wanted to mention I enjoy your coverage of Ham Radio as well. It's great you are taking risks into topics that others don't cover. Great Job!! Denny

Fascinating tour of the GoNetSpeed plant. Thanks to the GoNetSpeed rep Tom for taking the time to explain all the details.

Very nicely done. I always wondered how the bits come together -now I know. Thanks to Gonetspeed for allowing a closeup look at sensitive infrastructure. I like the candid explanation of how some providers overselling the system and how their solution is committed to avoiding this pitfall. If I lived in Connecticut I'd give them a shot at providing my service. Thanks for sharing the video.

There are currently two companies in my area that are deploying fiber, and after watching this I didn't know it was getting that "easy" (so to speak) to roll out. Also it is good to know that fiber can still work like POTS lines back in the day which eases some of my concerns of reliability during power outages. And you can basically run an entire town out of a small closet?!?!!?? Very fascinating stuff. Thank you for the video, really enjoyed it!

@wiziek

Жыл бұрын

easy? you have no idea how that works right? this is just part of network, this doesn't show core isp network, their interconnect to upstream or other operators, companies or their internal infrastructure (like their servers or office network)

Pasive network are great especially in disaster scenario as restorig power to the ONT will usually restore network service, in Australia we've run into issues with copper node and mobile infrastructure loosing power resualting in not being able to contact emergency services in major storm events

@wiziek

Жыл бұрын

uhm mobile network are supposed to have backup too and they are backed up by fiber connections in most of cases.

@bjoern.photography

Жыл бұрын

@@wiziek yes that would be great but unfortunately the site ran out of diesel. it runs exclusively of generators with a microwave relay. with all the tree down they won't able to get refunded it for about 5days.

This is awesome. I've been out of IT for 10 years and fiber is coming to my area. Nice to see an actual physical demonstration of the entire network. This *WAS* the grey area in my brain, now it's cleared up. Thanks!

I sure wish we had this in our area.

This is actually fascinating stuff. Thanks Lon for such a great video. It's actually good to see an ISP being so open like that. I wish they were in my area.

Video was both excellent and informative. Kudos to Gonetspeed, for recognizing an opportunity in promotion.

Lon, I enjoy your content, and I think this is my favorite video you’ve ever done. I started my IT career many years ago working for a dialup ISP, and it was really interesting to see how much the technology has changed. I remember it being a big deal when the ISP I worked for had a DS3 installed and was the only DS3 located within a 100 mile radius. I believe the bandwidth provided by a DS3 is 45 Mb/s, which is laughable now.

What an awesome job explaining everything, this was truly a thorough class on the operations of fiber to the home. Keep up the great work.

Amazing that they can serve so many customers from one rack. Thanks for the behind the scenes tour.

Man this guy is a wealth of knowledge, and lon is a great interviewer for this.

This was a very informative video. It was nice to see what it actually takes to get a fiber service up in running. I hope fiber grows to such a point that it finds its way to more rural areas. The lack of competition in the rural areas just makes online pricing so expensive. I recently moved from a rural area where we had broadband of speeds up to 30mps. What I paid for that was the same price I pay AT+T for quadruple the speed with their fiber.

We are an ISP based in Kenya and this has been educational. Thanks

Lon - excellent interview and great insight into some of the inner workings of an ISP!

Thanks Lon. Great content as always. Its always awesome to see behind the curtain and Tom did a great job of explaining!

Incredible video and awesome guest speaker, he does a great job of explaining his product and no feel of being sold/advert! Thanks Lon!

@mikehedrick6544

Жыл бұрын

Michael, I agree that Tom did an excellent job of explaining everything in a short amount of time. Very complete in demonstrating the process with the equipment. 👍

Very interesting and props to him for giving you the full tour! Great video!

Amazing video Lon! Great to see the impressive infrastructure that goes into the high speed internet we often take for granted.

This is such a cool video. I love how he’s really getting into the nitty gritty super technical details, and really love how knowledgeable the COO is of all this tech! What a great experience that must’ve been to see firsthand!

@technicalthug

4 ай бұрын

Came to post the same thing. +1 for the COO being across everything. The company sounds like it has good bones.

This is such a cool video Lon. Thank you so much for doing this! Loved it.

Thanks for showing the updated connection process. I use to work on the Fiber Transport systems, like SONET Fujitsu equipment and DACS to process fiber signals. That would be interesting to see updated transport systems.

Seems like a very serious company that cares about customer experience. I wish them all the best

Absolutely great video! Thank you for doing this and thank you to the company for having you out!!

I checked out the pricing. I like it and the upload and download is a winner. A strong reason I would move to CT now. Thanks for bringing some awareness about these guys.

What an absolutely amazing knowledgeable guy. Every question answered with incredible interest. A real business leader

Tom was very knowledgeable from product to implementation. Thanks for sharing

Absolutely loved this! would love to see more ISP tours! I've always wondered what it looks like from an ISP side, would like to see one of those MegaPoP's that feed back to the greater internet (if they even are allowed to show that)

@trackvbwrx

Жыл бұрын

It’s not much to see I assure you, I can try to grab a picture of one of ours for you.

This was great! I'm a datacom guy, I do commercial cabling, including fiber, but have been watching the buildout of Fidium in my city and I've been fascinated with it. I switched from mechanical to fusion a few years ago, was a great choice!

Thanks Lon for making such an interesting and informative video! And he is right about phone companies being around 100 years and dealing with antiquated tech, That's why I Feel that Gonetspeed is so competitive, they don't have to maintain legacy equipment, same also goes for cable co. !!!!!

I'm amazed by the manager doing the presentation. His job is to manage the operations of the business but he have deep knowledge and he's good at explaining complexe things in a way that is easy to understand.

Thank you thank you thank you! I live in iowa but my parents are in CT. Actually in New Britain!!! This helps them understand their GoNetSpeed service so much. Excellent excellent excellent video!!!

I live 10 miles from Corning, NY. I wonder when it fiber internet will make it to my house?

Very impressive video. It's great to see the enterprise level hardware and ISP uses.

wow its good to see someone in his position to actually know how everything work.

It would be cool if you could talk about plastic fiber in the house.

Just signed up for service the other day. Think that the fact that the CEO took the time out to talk and educate speaks volumes. 👏 Looking forward to doing business with GoNetSpeed 🤘

I love the commitment to not overly oversubscribe their network. That's hugely important, cause what good is a gig for if you only get it in the early morning hours. The operation looks really clean. Fantastic tour, thank you GoNetSpeed!

@wiziek

Жыл бұрын

wtf? you think getting 64 or 128 people each up to 1gb on 2,5g download/1,2 gb upload poart isn't overly oversubscribing?

@joewashu

Жыл бұрын

@@wiziek It is XGSPON, not GPON, so each PON splitter has 10 Gbps Upstream and 10 Gpbs Upstream capability/capacity

@hariranormal5584

Жыл бұрын

@@joewashu I think they are looking at it in a different way. Oversubscribing as in "data to the internet", not from your home to ISP core. Probably, I dunno.

@bluetonight17

Жыл бұрын

They are way way over subscribing thier network right at the PON. The new Nokia he is using I have in my office. Those PONs have a max limit of 25/25 Gbps. Split that between 64 to 124 customers. Then the backplane of the Nokia 7360 has a limit of 200 Gbps per slot divided by 1024 minimum of only 64 per PON. Up to 2,048 customers at any given time. That is why they are sticking to 1 gig. Where as their largest competition in CT can give you 5 Gig because they are not allowing more then 32 per port and we watch for high usage customers and can move them. They are copying exactly what another small startup did here in my state, we take their customers daily now because they have so many issues trying to get 128 people on a single PON. And the number of splits causing weak signals to their customers. I love it when we take their customers. Then they can enjoy true high speed and pay less.

Absolutely fascinating… Thanks so much for the behind-the-scenes look at fiber

This is a great video. Tom reflects the values of his company and I wish their service was available in florida.

I've installed Nokia / Alcatel 7342 bays for one "Large" telecom, that looks like the 7360 offering, newer, more port outputs per card slot and higher capacity on the backplane. The sad part is, I am retired now, and that same provider hasn't covered my neighborhood with fiber, and I am stuck on an old U-Verse system until it fails or another competitor steps up and installs a fiber network. Good "behind the scenes" video, thanks for the content.

Love love the effort on this video from both the fiber company and you my man 🙏✌🏻

Hats off to lontv and GoNetspeed for being so transparent 👍

You have the ability of bringing unique content. Thank you. 👍

This feels like something I would watch on TV back when TV was a thing. They didn't really have a different name for the service that you were paying for versus the actual device that you're watching it on which is kind of confusing nowadays.

Awesome! See what other places you can tour! I used to work for SPECTRUM as a field service technician. I am very familiar with these terms! Love it! Great content!

Thank you lawn for creating this video I live in the city of New Britain and I cannot wait for go net speed to go online I know for a fact it's gonna be a hell of a lot better than frontier or Comcast and I can't wait I've been looking all over the Internet for videos like this, but nobody has done one until you did it. Thank you.

I've always been curious about this. Awesome video, Lon!

Very informative and interesting. The ethics of this fibre provider sound exemplary as does their approach to customer service. The COO, Tom, sounds very knowledgeable. With the values this fibre broadband provider has they deserve to do extremely well.

I've been waiting for a video of such nature. Thank you so much :)

very informative, thanks Lov TV and GoNetSpeed

wow this is incredible. thank you for making this.

I found this so interesting I just watched it twice!

Great video, very informative. Awesome to see how passionate you both were about this technology

I love these kind of documentaries! There are so many cool things all around us, and I think we should all know more about them. I especially like that this doesn't really seem like an ad for that ISP. It's mostly just a dude explaining what they do, which leaves a great impression of that company - if he would've made an obnoxious ad of this video, I would've left with a bad impression. If I would live in Connecticut, I would certainly want to sign up with these guys.

Moving next week and found that I'm in GoNetSpeed's service area!! I'm already excited to have full 1G synchronous and it's amazing timing that I'm seeing this while I'm counting down the days to my install!

@bobbydazzler6990

Жыл бұрын

You just watched the video and you still think you are going to get 1Gb up/1Gb down at your house for less than $100 a month? You should probably re-watch the video. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@xaq7745

Жыл бұрын

@@bobbydazzler6990 Ever heard of the Affordable Connectivity Program? Dobson Fiber just put lines in throughout my small Oklahoma town, and with ACP, they'd give me their 1GB plan for $5 a month. I'm Native and live on Tribal land, where ACP gives you $75 off your internet access bill.

@SuperSpecies

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you mean symmetrical? Synchronous relates to data clocking.

30 miles terrestrial is a good range with the power output of lasers used today over single mode. When you go subsea we start talking about EFDAs…that’s really cool tech there that not many people know about and the fiber goes hundreds of miles without a “repeater” in the true sense. That is really mind-blowing at a sub-atomic level.

Great information on how this is setup. Thanks for sharing this Lon.

This is the type of stuff that makes you one of my favorite tech people!

Thank you for this informative video. This answers a lot of questions for me because I have both Cox (Meriden) and Xfinity (Bristol) for cable internet. I’ve cut the cord on cable tv and looking for other fast speed internet options because I’m tired of the data and speed limit restraints of cable internet.

Nice, gonetspeed expanded quite a bit in Maine. It’s to bad all ISPs weren’t at this level of quality in care and customer service. Please don’t ever change! Keep growing!

This was an awesome video! While I don't have Gonetspeed, I am subscribed to a newcomer fiber ISP in my area (Metronet), so I bet it's all pretty similar.

Cool to get a look like this into ISP hardware

It’s good to see an executive so in touch with the process

Amazing video. The time investment to organize this Lon. Thanks so much, i learn so much from these types of videos. Wanted to show my appreciation

While I don't live in the area GoNetSpeed is, this was really cool. I wish them the best of luck building out their system!

Super informative, I always wondered how this worked at the physical level! Thanks!

Loved the Video. I see a Ciena Gear in the background. I used to work for them

So interesting to see this. Great video and what a great company. To see this happening in the US is especially inspiring.

That was pretty interesting! Where I live, we’re in the process of getting fiber optic internet through a company called Ting. We don’t have any old utility poles; everything is buried underground. So they’re laying cable in the streets first.

@JJFlores197

Жыл бұрын

My neighborhood is the same. We have underground utilities. We're supposed to be getting a fiber internet provider: Race Communications sometime this year. Going to be interesting how they install the fiber in our area. Can't wait to get rid of Comcast.

@deepspacecow2644

Жыл бұрын

@Times Past Television I think more likely vibratory plows.

That was very informative, Lon. Cheers, Dave.

That was an excellent video!! I was always curious on how the basic backend works. I have google fiber and they do not guarantee my max speed all the time if I lived in CT. I would definitely give GoNetSpeed a try.

A similar thing happened in Australia when ADSL2+ came in. for years ADSL1 was available from the national provider, where ISP's could lease equipment in the exchange, but the speed and price was set by the telco, (ie, slow and expensive, the cynic in me thinks so they could keep collecting phone charges from dialup). Internode ran their own fibre to the exchanges for the backhaul, and were able to install their own hardware in the exchange. they still had to lease the copper from the premises to the exchange, but the dramatic leap in capacity, pricing, speed and customer service really shook up the industry. Im still with them, many years later, even tho the competition has caught up in pricing, and most of it is on the NBN now, they always have spare capacity and their customer service is absolutely excellent, worth it.

Really nice video. Explains everything so that anyone can see and understand what happens to light them up. Also gives them a sense of the investment this is for Gonetspeed. This is not just a lets try this area, it is a true investment that needs to payback. Every customer is important. Gonetspeed is leading in this space. VERY NICE!

Man, this guy is super knowledgable.

Great presentation and very knowledgeable. Appreciate your work.

This is one of the more interesting videos you've done. Not that the others aren't good, but this was just intriguing because it's not something you really think about.

Great video. I always wondered how this fiber thing works.

this is the neatest fibe rinfrastructure setup i have ever seen, mahn even the conenction from FAT to the home drop has a unique connector, we only splice all sections.

GoNetSpeed seems like a solid provider. I would definitely purchase service from them if I was in their coverage area.

Great video. I recently got rid of Xfinity and data caps and signed up with a smaller provider in central Illinois called CTI. Looks like they run the same gear as the company in the video. CTI has provided great customer service. On time and in/out with install in an hour. Service has been rock solid for the 2 months I have had it. I have a Nokia ONT and router configured in bridge mode. My mesh network does the rest. This is the way to go. Comcast had a monopoly in my area. Service was reliable, but the data caps and overage charges were BS. Glad to see some competition in more small communities and rural areas.

Great video. With there were more providers like this in NH. Hope they come up here.