Found the cell site and the fiber pedestal.

Now what?

Once the plastic wrapper is off we can discard the orange wire, it was used to pull the fiber through the condit to the HUT.

The first fiber is marked with a one. According to my paperwork, it's assigned in this port.

The other end is in the HUT. I'll just look for the fiber marked with a one.

The QDFR is already mounted and grounded, with the fiber plugged in.

From the QDFR we add a multi port demarc. Once that's done and everything has been grounded we extend the wiring over to the customers equipment.

Forget the health club, I've found a new way to get back in shape.

Ever wonder what these metal boxes we see from the road?

Let's take a look.

There's a ladder mounted on the inside. Let's climb down.

It's bigger then a walk in closet, but smaller then an averaged sized bedroom.

If wired properly each card will have a green light.

The central office sends the signal to the field. This is the first place field technicians have access.

This is where the circuit leaves the CEV

When I see a QDFR I know this must be a cell site. There are three QDFR's here, two are stacked on top of each other.

Before getting to the QDFR the wire is pulled from here.

And this is the view from the cell site.

DMX Mux, or DISC's

A new mux. We're pre wiring for some existing circuits to be cut to this new mux.

The circuit arrives from the co to the field here. We wire from the co location to the relay rack location.

And the relay rack is located on the other side of the cabinet. Two circuits have already been cut.

Another new type of RT. This one is next to Hardin Valley School. One bit of wisdom I picked up today is the CO, or any remote tester, cannot see a short on an HDSL circuit. So much to learn!!

Feb. 2010

On this Moday, Feb. 1st, we repair a circuit in a telco room.

One thing I notice is a quad mount that's protected on the customer side, as well as the telco company side. My trainer explains that for a short while this was a company practice. Now the only circuits that are protected both sides are cell sites.

We repaired this circuit by cutting a change on the F1.