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FTTH Planning Checklist
A checklist to plan an FTTH build-out end-to-end — from feasibility to first live subscriber.
FTTH looks like a fiber-and-OLT project. In practice, it's a physical plant project with a strong operational software tail. Both halves need to be planned together.
Physical
- Coverage area & density
- Backbone fiber route
- ODF placement
- FDH placement (per neighbourhood)
- FAT placement (per building / cluster)
- Splitter ratios
- Drop cable inventory
Optical
- OLT vendor & model
- PON port budget
- Signal budget per longest run
- SFP inventory
- Documentation of every splice
Operational
- Subscriber onboarding flow
- ONT provisioning strategy
- Billing / RADIUS integration
- NMS / monitoring baseline
- Documentation & runbook
