Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) Beacon side Staffordshire.

TNS was approached by a local service provider Internet central, to design and build a new Gigabit Passive Optical Network in Staffordshire the task in hand was to provide a new network within Beacon side business park enabling all clients to have faster broadband connections, as this area was remote with poor broadband speeds.

Install new duct system throughout the park areas to be served and provide each client with a fibre optic connection. Then build a new GPON network throughout the park and deliver a new backhaul connection from the park to the Openreach exchange in the centre of Stafford.
Using our GIS platform and fibre planning tools we designed a network from the Openreach exchange through to the business park, the task was to prove the Openreach network by rodding and roping the network as TNS had the correct accreditations SA001, SA002, S5, S6, S7 S8 to use to have access to the Openreach network.

Build a GPON network to last and allow easy access for new clients to be connected to the Internet Central network as each area of the parks was different as some were still under construction and the old was an ex old MOD site and the ducts didn’t align up with what was planned, and this was now owned by the landlord. But we had to work outside normal hours to get the network built within the time frame allocated.

After test rodding and roping, clearing blockages and desilting the Openreach network a total of 5.5km of 14/10 sub duct was installed allowing us to blow the fibre cable from the exchange to different jointing locations along the route. Installing access nodes which required splicing of the fibre optic cable and installing splitters at strategic locations allowing for future expansion, and connections for the clients that had signed up to the project.

The network was commissioned and testing using specialist test equipment called optical time domain reflectometers (OTDR’s) that are cable of testing Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON) and all test results handed over to the client as part of the handover pack we issued which entailed detailed network drawings based on GIS platform, splicing diagrams, and joint locations, evidence of locations of every Openreach chamber used showing sub-duct labelled and correctly secured as detailed by Openreach specifications.

TNS provide these services for many alternative network providers (altnets) across the United Kingdom which has seen us demonstrate our skills, knowledge, and expertise with deploying fibre optic networks, as well as being able to maintain the network on behalf of the clients should a fault situation arise.

Having worked on the Openreach network direct for Openreach for 6 years we knew what to expect in the underground and overhead network and what the potential issues were, and the correct procedures for desilting, blockages and confined spaces for manhole entry requirements. This was a huge success for Internet Central.

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