“These splices have to be really good, otherwise you have light loss,” Britten said. Britten could show about four people at a time how fiber optic splicing works. The demonstration took place at ToledoTel’s headquarters, inside a trailer. Britten said it usually takes about 40 or 50 feet of this cable to connect a home, but just that day he used about 90 feet of cable on a more difficult home to connect. To connect a home to the fiber, there is a long cable that looks like it is made out of rubber. The company’s fiber runs underground along roads. ToledoTel traces its roots back to the area’s first phone lines in 1906 and began installing fiber optic lines 100 years later. “Fiber needs to be plugged in in order for it to work.”
#Inside a fiber optic splice trailer install#
“When we go to a house and install fiber, we have to do a fiber splice in order to be able to plug into our bulkheads,” Britten said. The point of the splicing is to join cables coming from a home to the company’s existing fiber infrastructure. Technician John Britten conducted the fiber optic splicing demonstrations. “I never thought ToledoTel would be a green company, but most of these people are telecommuters,” Merten said of the incoming residents. Merten mentioned the 41 new homes that are currently under construction in Toledo, and the company’s endeavors to provide internet service to them. Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Alicia Bull and Merten briefly addressed the crowd. The event included dinner catered by Bonanza BBQ and raffle prizes. It hosts such an event every year, but this year the internet service provider also offered fiber optic splicing demonstrations. On Thursday, ToledoTel hosted a Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours.
“Big companies are only interested in big cities,” he said. By Katie Hayes / ToledoTel works to hook up 41 new homes in the rural town of Toledo to its high-tech fiber optic network, Chief Operating Officer Dale Merten explained Thursday why he believes it’s important for a smaller telecommunication company to exist in Lewis County.
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