Bringing fiber to the home can be a costly endeavor when you consider the scope of the work and the skill and labor required—it involves a lot of manpower, with multiple crews often working simultaneously in your neighborhood. The construction stage is one of the most visual steps of the process. First we build the backbone network in your neighborhood. Our local construction teams dig the trenches in the main and side streets. Then they pull the conduit through. We employ some pretty hefty equipment that allows us to pull the conduit over a distance of several thousand feet very quickly. Then the installers take the conduit from the ground and run it through the cabinets and pedestals. You can find these placed around your neighborhood. This is when the fiber splicers sometimes work simultaneously with the previous teams—they organize, splice and route the individual fiber cables within each pedestal. The final step happens when you call for an installation. We’ll come out to your location and measure how far we need to pull fiber from your street. This helps us determine if we can use existing conduit or not. If you have a really long driveway or it’s a new service address for us, we will get you an estimate for residential service construction at this time.