I've been using outdoor ONTs, powered via PoE. I splice at the side of the house, and put up a splice tent if necessary.
Another option would be using pre-terminated drop cable with storage on the side of the house for leftover slack. I have not seen anyone keep enough slack on the side of the house to get all the way out to a truck/trailer. On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you guys typically use an outdoor ONT or indoor? I see pros and cons. > > If it's outdoor I assume it's POE powered and you just run CAT5 into the > house, correct? > And inside your NID enclosure I imagine you splice your drop cable into a > pigtail with a factory end. That seems like the simplest, cleanest way to > me. > > On the other hand, I'm finding at least some vendors (Alphion) who only > sell indoor ONT's. So in that case, I'm thinking the splice enclosure goes > INSIDE the house because you're splicing to an indoor tight buffered patch > cable which I run to the ONT. > > On the third hand, if the NID enclosure is outdoors, then I need slack > loops big enough to bring the enclosure (or splice tray) inside a truck to > work on it, whereas I could splice in the customer's basement without an > issue, so maybe I only need 10' of slack down there. > > I guess I'm dumping my thoughts so those of you with more experience can > criticize my wrong headed thinking and tell me what the right choices are > before I f*** this up. > > >
