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How does the fiber optic cable get into the house through the basement wall? How do you then seal the hole in the wall against vermin and water? How are the cables and fibers in the house transfer point (HÜP) then divided up between several apartments (FTTH=Home)? Fiber optic on Amazon (advertising): https://amzn.to/3WrlUQm How does the laser beam from the HÜP then get into the ONT aka Optical Network Termination aka fiber optic box aka fiber optic modem aka fiber optic house termination point? Why are the light signals from the fiber optic converted back into electrical signals in the ONT? Why does the last section from the ONT to the FRITZ!Box then run over a trivial LAN Ethernet copper cable instead of the super-modern glass? Why do most fiber optic internet providers (despite router freedom) not like it at all if you want to plug the fiber optic directly (!) into a FRITZ!Box 5530 or 5590 Fiber instead of just connecting it to the ONT via a LAN cable? Martin Herkommer explained all of these questions to me very clearly. He is Head of Strategic Business Development at Deutsche GigaNetz GmbH. I met him on December 6, 2023 at the ConnectedGermany event in the International Congress Center Messe München (ICM). He had a yellow demo case with HÜP and ONT and Fritzbox with him. This enabled him to explain the complex subject matter very clearly. 00:00 Fiber optic case for town hall meetings 01:07 In the sidewalk: 24 tubes, each 7mm 01:51 Basement wall drill hole: 20 to 25mm 02:36 Gas-water-vermin-tight wall feedthrough 03:37 The small HÜP aka house handover point 06:24 The large HÜP for 40 residential units 07:00 FTTR vs LAN vs WLAN 08:20 Four-fiber cable to every apartment 09:10 Beauty flaw: ONT eats up electricity 11:31 Flexible in-house fiber optic without kink protection 13:00 Fritzbox 5530 & 5590 Fiber does not need ONT 14:00 Fiber optic in Fritzbox allowed, but not desired 15:33 Can the provider look into the Fritzbox? 16:39 Providers love the ONT more than the Fritzbox 17:41 Who lays the cable from the ONT to the Fritzbox? 18:31 Fire protection in the stairwell 19:18 A hammer drill through a concrete ceiling costs €200 19:45 When the fiber optic connector doesn't fit through the empty pipe 20:20 Clipping the fiber optic connector onto the fiber optic cable 22:11 Deutsche GigaNetz builds fiber optic cables up to 2.5 gigabits 23:41 Fiber optic versus cable internet 24:54 Fiber optic for the next 100 years 26:08 DSL and cable internet consume a lot of electricity 29:12 Fiber optic 20 km without an intermediate amplifier 29:49 The splice point has to be good 30:40 Where is Deutsche GigaNetz building fiber optic networks? 32:31 Fiber optic in Spain - from window to window 33:08 Fiber optic in Germany - complicated and expensive 33:21 Double expansion 35:23 The announcement power of a superstructure 37:33 Is fiber optic more stable than TV cable?