Texas Meats Project

Role
Telecommunication Technician

Duty
To provide leased internet link through optic fibre at Texas meats along Speke Ave

What was done?

Survey
Survey was done to identify route to be taken by fibre from the already existing fibre
nearby. The fiber link was for Texas Meats (corner Speke Avenue and Cameroon
Street) but had to pass through Petrol Trade Building where the closest TelOne fiber
is. The route was determined to reach the client’s office without disturbing traffic.
The knowledge of the labour required and the necessary equipment or tools required
were discussed and noted down. A proposal for the start and finish dates for the
project were also discussed and noted down.

Running fibre
About 200m of optic fiber cable was run overhead since there was no underground
access to the client’s premises. The distance from the nearest TelOne fibre link was
short since there were free cores at the Petro trade PBX room that terminated at the
JNW exchange, hence we ran the fibre from the client server room to the Petro Trade
PBX room where we terminated the first two cores.

Splicing fibre
Spliced 2 cores of the new fiber to the old existing fiber in a doom box for protection
at the Petrol Trade PBX room. The first 2 cores (Blue and Orange) of the new fiber
were spliced at client side in a patch panel. The first core was for internet and the
second one was a redundant link just in of faults in the first core. The first core was
connected to the ‘B’ type media convertor using a ST to SC fiber patch code.

Communication with Main Exchange

Light was injected into the first core at the client’s side so that it could be seen at the
data center. After the light was seen at the data center in a patch panel. An ‘A’ type
media converter was connected to the fibre with the light coming from the client’s
server room. Communicated with the main exchange since the link was supposed to
be configured as an internet link. A port was provided on the switch at the main
exchange that could be managed by the main exchange remotely. Connected the
media converter facing the client and the configured switch using an ethernet cat 6
cable. The bandwidth was tested at the client’s side using ookla website
(https://www.speedtest.net/ ). Checked IP address and gateway address at client end.

Map Drawing
Went to the drawings office to get the existing fibre map for areas close to Texas
Meats. The new link to Texas Meats was drawn clearly showing all joins and bends
the fibre took to reach Texas meats via Petrol Trade. The map was submitted to the
drawings office so that the new link could be added to the system for future reference.

Job Completion Forms

A job completion form was written and taken to the client so that they could
comments and evaluate the job done by the TelOne team. After being satisfied the
client signed and approved the work done as a success.

Experience