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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
@@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 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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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. 👍
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. 😊
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
This COO is no politically-correct stuffed-shirt dropping buzzwords with only a rudimentary grasp of the fundamentals, like you'd find at any of the entrenched ISPs. He knows his tech inside and out and communicates effectively.
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.
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 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.
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!
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)
@@wiziek Easier than a copper network, which has all of those components, plus tons more active equipment in the outside plant. This is almost all centered in the CO.
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 🤘
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. !!!!!
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 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!
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 👍
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.
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)
@3:56 - would be nice to go into that cable more as that looks like two copper lines. @6:43 - Ziply in WA uses that same ONT currently for their multi-gig service.
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
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.
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.
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
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!!!
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
Thanks for sharing this video and information. I retired in 2004 as a network systems engineer. I started in college in 1967 with a headend for video. I am currently an Extra Class Amateur Radio operator experimenting with mesh networking over radio frequencies. De AA4SH
FYI, I have Verizon FiOS and for my neighborhood they're using the same Nokia 7300 series equipment. I retired from Verizon where I supported the backbone core equipment my entire career and just recently learned about GPON gear. I was also recently upgraded to 1G up down on this exact same platform so your timing on this is perfect!
Passive Optical Network: PON is a shared network, in that the OLT sends a single stream of downstream traffic that is seen by all ONUs. Each ONU reads the content of only those packets that are addressed to it. Encryption is used to prevent eavesdropping on downstream traffic.
Love to see how ISP’s roll out their infrastructure. I’m pretty sure this is how windstream sets up their fiber. Frontier and Verizon have very different designs.
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.
Outstanding video! I just got fiber Internet into my home and while it's not with GoSpeed, I am almost certain that the same principles apply. Try doing a video like that with a mobile carrier!
Very interesting video. I wonder about the energy efficiency of fiber vs. coax. It seems that fiber would be more efficient, but I haven't ever seen a comparison. Might make for a nice follow-up video.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Very informative video!I was wondering how it all worked, In Athens Greece where i live in the past two years ftth(fiber to the home) has become avaliable to arround 40 to 50% of the population .The way they do it here is that a large provider is assigned to a specific area,they build the infastracture(not over the air they dig on the side of the streets) and then you can choose which provider you want as your final isp at home.Also if you apply for ftth they are obligaded to fix the infastracture for the entire bulding,so lets say that you live in an apartment building and one guy applies for ftth then the entire building gets floor boxes that are ready to connect everyone.The equipment you get at home is an ont(just like in the video) and a router.Some providers do give one device that has the ont and the router on the same device.Finally (sorry for the long post) the avaliable speeds start at 200mbps up to 1gb.
When fiber internet became available in my neighborhood, I switched right away. This new ISP provides internet that is 2x faster and slightly cheaper than my old copper ISP. It's definitely worth the switch, especially if your copper ISP keeps raising rates like mine was.
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.
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.
Rochester telecom used to have a group of rope climbing, repelling and European style absailing specialists to deal with specialized cable environments such as the side of cliffs or steep hills and tall building (20 -50 Storey) external cabling environments as well.
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!
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@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.
Great video, very interesting, thankyou. Here in Australia, capital cities & regional centres (relatively small population, huge area) are switching to fibre from 1950's copper via our government owned NBN ( National Broadband Network) all underground. 30 years ago we started the overhead cables etc for pay tv and internet, very ugly, that was stopped and all services, including power in new areas are underground. The NBN comes in stages depending on the age of your area. FTTN ( fiber to the node) copper to a cabinet that might be kilometers away. FTTC (fiber to the curb) copper to the house from the street and FTTP (to the premises) as described here. Only 1 gig offered (domestically) but I suspect that will improve over time.
Very enjoyabe. Very informative. I have Wave (Astound) in our city and watching this explains the boxes on the outside of my house, and the boxes on the utility poles. Good to know that if we get a power outage I can still get internet IF I plug their power brick into a USP. The sad thing, Astound uses fiber obviously but it converts to coax inside the house. Thus I've been told it the reason we get 1gig download but only 25 mbps uplooad which is stupid. They are unable to give symetrical speeds. You did great Lon. These types of videos are a lot better than a simple product review wich many others do. Like showing your brothers maple syrup operation last year or so... it was great. Thank you.
that depends if they got battery backup, they may not have it or only on their core network. also battery backup isn't pernament it may be lasting only up to hours of outage.
Great tour. I’m in Upstate NY with a similar new small fiber provider and it’s got a lot in common with GoNetSpeed. Great service, low price, huge speeds. I can get 2 or even 5Gbps at my house now, this explains why it’s so easy. :-)
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.
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.
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.
not reallly ,64 customer that depends if they are using gpon
@@James_Knott this is core network or interconnect, while end user is using same fiber, electronics are different
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.
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.
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...
yes. need more smaller guys here jumping into the game. it will put big cable provider to force them to go fiber as well
@@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
@@dvanomaly420 XGS-PON is wavelength multiplexed though, the upstream and downstream are at different wavelengths, multiplexed on one fiber.
Now this is an ad I enjoyed to watch. The guy knows what he's talking about, no sugar coating or lies.
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.
amazing? you have any idea how fiber works?
@@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…
Thank Nokia
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Check if Frontiers 5 gig is available and price out the two.
@@bluetonight17 Frontier is HORRIBLE!
i thought 4/1 was the current internet speed at that house and not the date that you are moving to it on
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.
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!
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 :)
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. 👍
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. 😊
Well good for GoNetSpeed. Good for you for finding a company to talk to. Best wishes to this company
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.
Video was both excellent and informative. Kudos to Gonetspeed, for recognizing an opportunity in promotion.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
Seems like a very serious company that cares about customer experience. I wish them all the best
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!
Came to post the same thing. +1 for the COO being across everything. The company sounds like it has good bones.
This COO is no politically-correct stuffed-shirt dropping buzzwords with only a rudimentary grasp of the fundamentals, like you'd find at any of the entrenched ISPs. He knows his tech inside and out and communicates effectively.
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.
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
uhm mobile network are supposed to have backup too and they are backed up by fiber connections in most of cases.
@@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.
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!
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)
@@wiziek Easier than a copper network, which has all of those components, plus tons more active equipment in the outside plant. This is almost all centered in the CO.
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 🤘
We are an ISP based in Kenya and this has been educational. Thanks
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. !!!!!
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!
It’s good to see an executive so in touch with the process
I sure wish we had this in our area.
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!
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?
@@wiziek It is XGSPON, not GPON, so each PON splitter has 10 Gbps Upstream and 10 Gpbs Upstream capability/capacity
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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.
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.
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.
Fascinating tour of the GoNetSpeed plant. Thanks to the GoNetSpeed rep Tom for taking the time to explain all the details.
I live 10 miles from Corning, NY. I wonder when it fiber internet will make it to my house?
What an absolutely amazing knowledgeable guy. Every question answered with incredible interest. A real business leader
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.
Incredible video and awesome guest speaker, he does a great job of explaining his product and no feel of being sold/advert! Thanks Lon!
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. 👍
WELL DONE C.O.O , EXCELLENTLY PRESENTED AND VERY PROFESSIONALLY MADE. FROM PAKISTAN.
Man this guy is a wealth of knowledge, and lon is a great interviewer for this.
Very interesting and props to him for giving you the full tour! Great video!
What a fantastic and fascinating tour. Thank you so much for making this happen!
This is such a cool video Lon. Thank you so much for doing this! Loved it.
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.
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!
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)
It’s not much to see I assure you, I can try to grab a picture of one of ours for you.
I found this so interesting I just watched it twice!
@3:56 - would be nice to go into that cable more as that looks like two copper lines.
@6:43 - Ziply in WA uses that same ONT currently for their multi-gig service.
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
This is a great video. Tom reflects the values of his company and I wish their service was available in florida.
Tom was very knowledgeable from product to implementation. Thanks for sharing
Amazing video Lon! Great to see the impressive infrastructure that goes into the high speed internet we often take for granted.
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.
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.
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
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!!!
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.
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.
@Times Past Television I think more likely vibratory plows.
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!
Man, this guy is super knowledgable.
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.
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!
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.
Thanks to GoNetSpeed and to you for producing this interesting and useful video.
Lon - excellent interview and great insight into some of the inner workings of an ISP!
wow its good to see someone in his position to actually know how everything work.
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.
Thanks for sharing this video and information. I retired in 2004 as a network systems engineer. I started in college in 1967 with a headend for video. I am currently an Extra Class Amateur Radio operator experimenting with mesh networking over radio frequencies. De AA4SH
FYI, I have Verizon FiOS and for my neighborhood they're using the same Nokia 7300 series equipment. I retired from Verizon where I supported the backbone core equipment my entire career and just recently learned about GPON gear. I was also recently upgraded to 1G up down on this exact same platform so your timing on this is perfect!
Hats off to lontv and GoNetspeed for being so transparent 👍
This is the type of stuff that makes you one of my favorite tech people!
That was very informative, Lon. Cheers, Dave.
Terrific! Good for them, for providing this tour. Regards from Baltimore.
Passive Optical Network: PON is a shared network, in that the OLT sends a single stream of downstream traffic that is seen by all ONUs. Each ONU reads the content of only those packets that are addressed to it. Encryption is used to prevent eavesdropping on downstream traffic.
GoNetSpeed seems like a solid provider. I would definitely purchase service from them if I was in their coverage area.
Love to see how ISP’s roll out their infrastructure. I’m pretty sure this is how windstream sets up their fiber. Frontier and Verizon have very different designs.
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.
Outstanding video! I just got fiber Internet into my home and while it's not with GoSpeed, I am almost certain that the same principles apply.
Try doing a video like that with a mobile carrier!
Cool to get a look like this into ISP hardware
Very interesting video. I wonder about the energy efficiency of fiber vs. coax. It seems that fiber would be more efficient, but I haven't ever seen a comparison. Might make for a nice follow-up video.
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.
Absolutely great video! Thank you for doing this and thank you to the company for having you out!!
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.
Very impressive video. It's great to see the enterprise level hardware and ISP uses.
You have the ability of bringing unique content. Thank you. 👍
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!
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.
This is what I call AMERICA FIRST company! We need one of these in every local community instead of some mega-corp. Kudos guys 👏
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.
Why not just say at&t?
@@okcthunder8993 OK, at&t (hanging head in shame)
@@poormanselectronicsbench2021 lol
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.
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.
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!
Very informative video!I was wondering how it all worked, In Athens Greece where i live in the past two years ftth(fiber to the home) has become avaliable to arround 40 to 50% of the population .The way they do it here is that a large provider is assigned to a specific area,they build the infastracture(not over the air they dig on the side of the streets) and then you can choose which provider you want as your final isp at home.Also if you apply for ftth they are obligaded to fix the infastracture for the entire bulding,so lets say that you live in an apartment building and one guy applies for ftth then the entire building gets floor boxes that are ready to connect everyone.The equipment you get at home is an ont(just like in the video) and a router.Some providers do give one device that has the ont and the router on the same device.Finally (sorry for the long post) the avaliable speeds start at 200mbps up to 1gb.
When fiber internet became available in my neighborhood, I switched right away. This new ISP provides internet that is 2x faster and slightly cheaper than my old copper ISP. It's definitely worth the switch, especially if your copper ISP keeps raising rates like mine was.
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.
I've been waiting for a video of such nature. Thank you so much :)
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.
Rochester telecom used to have a group of rope climbing, repelling and European style absailing specialists to deal with specialized cable environments such as the side of cliffs or steep hills and tall building (20 -50 Storey) external cabling environments as well.
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!
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@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.
Maybe you mean symmetrical? Synchronous relates to data clocking.
Thanks Lon. Great content as always. Its always awesome to see behind the curtain and Tom did a great job of explaining!
Great video, very interesting, thankyou. Here in Australia, capital cities & regional centres (relatively small population, huge area) are switching to fibre from 1950's copper via our government owned NBN ( National Broadband Network) all underground. 30 years ago we started the overhead cables etc for pay tv and internet, very ugly, that was stopped and all services, including power in new areas are underground. The NBN comes in stages depending on the age of your area. FTTN ( fiber to the node) copper to a cabinet that might be kilometers away. FTTC (fiber to the curb) copper to the house from the street and FTTP (to the premises) as described here. Only 1 gig offered (domestically) but I suspect that will improve over time.
Very enjoyabe. Very informative. I have Wave (Astound) in our city and watching this explains the boxes on the outside of my house, and the boxes on the utility poles. Good to know that if we get a power outage I can still get internet IF I plug their power brick into a USP. The sad thing, Astound uses fiber obviously but it converts to coax inside the house. Thus I've been told it the reason we get 1gig download but only 25 mbps uplooad which is stupid. They are unable to give symetrical speeds. You did great Lon. These types of videos are a lot better than a simple product review wich many others do. Like showing your brothers maple syrup operation last year or so... it was great. Thank you.
that depends if they got battery backup, they may not have it or only on their core network. also battery backup isn't pernament it may be lasting only up to hours of outage.
Great tour. I’m in Upstate NY with a similar new small fiber provider and it’s got a lot in common with GoNetSpeed. Great service, low price, huge speeds. I can get 2 or even 5Gbps at my house now, this explains why it’s so easy. :-)