What to Expect During a Fibre Installation Process
Making the decision to upgrade to high-speed fibre internet is exciting. The prospect of buffer-free streaming, seamless remote work, and lightning-fast downloads is enough to make anyone eager to get connected. However, many homeowners and business managers experience anxiety regarding the actual installation process. What does it entail? Will it ruin the landscaping? How long does it take?
At Lightstruck, we believe in complete transparency. Understanding the Fibre Journey helps alleviate concerns and ensures a smooth transition to world-class connectivity. Here is exactly what you can expect during a standard fibre installation.
Phase 1: Planning and Approvals
Before a single trench is dug, meticulous planning takes place. Our engineering teams survey the neighborhood to determine the most efficient and least disruptive routes for the main fibre lines. For estates and complexes, we work closely with Body Corporates and Homeowners Associations to secure the necessary wayleaves and approvals, ensuring our work aligns with local regulations and community standards.
Phase 2: Civil Works and Trenching
This is often the most visible and disruptive phase, but it is temporary. To lay the protective micro-ducts that house the delicate fibre glass cables, shallow trenches must be dug along the sidewalks or property boundaries. Our teams work efficiently to minimize noise and disruption. More importantly, Lightstruck is committed to strict reinstatement policies. Once the ducts are safely underground, we ensure the trenches are closed, and sidewalks, paving, and grass are restored to their original condition, or better.
Phase 3: Hauling and Splicing
Once the underground pathways are established, the actual fibre optic cables are “blown” or pulled through the micro-ducts using specialized equipment. Following this, our highly trained technicians perform “splicing.” Because fibre optics use light to transmit data through microscopic glass strands, joining these cables requires extreme precision and specialized fusion splicing machines to ensure there is no signal loss.
Phase 4: The Home/Business Drop
The final physical step is bringing the fibre from the street boundary wall into your home or office. A technician will visit your premises to discuss the best route for the cable. A small hole will be drilled to bring the cable indoors, where it is connected to an Optical Network Terminal (ONT). The ONT is a small device mounted to your wall that converts the optical light signals back into electrical signals that your router can understand.
Ready to start your Fibre Journey?
Our dedicated teams are ready to connect you safely, cleanly, and efficiently. If you have any specific questions about installations in your area, please reach out via our Contact Us page, or Register Your Interest to get the process started today!
WHY CHOOSE US
We plan on deploying fibre internet in all interested communities
It is our team’s vision to develop, own and operate open, high-end, last mile fibre by deploying an infrastructure investment methodology that will deliver long term fibre optic networks for the economic and social benefit of the communities in which fibre is deployed.
For the next part of the process, which is enabling home and business owners to utilise the fast-speed fibre that has been installed in their area, we have partnered with various leading ISPs to deliver a product in which we can trust.
They have been carefully chosen, offering our customers the combination of both excellent service, with a product offering that would suit most business and home owners’ modern internet requirements.
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