FTTh design and deployment guidelines for civil work, fiber distribution and numbering

This article highlights a new FTTh design and deployment guidelines suitable for industrial and residential deployment in green field areas. We introduce civil work guidelines: manhole and hand-hole sizes their location, duct and sub-duct structure and section and route selection, cable vault entrance. Cable distribution and numbering guidelines: fiber feeder (primary) design, fiber distribution (secondary) design, fiber drops, fiber distribution terminals (FDT) cabinet sizing and numbering, fiber access terminal (FAT) DP sizing, splitters output, distribution types design (centralized, cascaded, and hybrid). Also we propose a new numbering procedure and stencil information, and type of fiber optic to be used for FTTh deployment. We describe our experience where these guidelines were applied to build an FTTh access network for residential industrial areas.