Before they do this, they’ll mark and protect any other buried utility lines in your yard by working with 811 Call Before You Dig. When your installation is underground a crew chosen by your fiber provider will dig a small trench on your property to bury the line that comes from the street. So if some houses near you have aerial installations while some have buried installations, it’s all built into the plan. After that plan was approved by the local authorities, another more detailed engineering plan was created.Īnd that’s when these experts weighed the options to build the right implementation plan for your neighborhood. The provider took months to analyze your neighborhood or community and factor in your soil, your infrastructure, your roads, your geography and the location of other utility connections to determine a construction plan for bringing in fiber implementation. That decision was made many months before by your local community council, working closely with the fiber provider chosen to do the implementation. You, the homeowner, don’t have the choice about whether the fiber drop to your home is buried underground or strung by wire from a pole. Let’s look at how this happens and details on each deployment method. Depending on where you live and how the provider is bringing fiber directly to your home determines the type of installation you’ll have. There are two different ways that fiber service is wired to your home: underground and aerial. Not every fiber installation means digging in your yard.

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