Fiber & OSP Construction Glossary

As-Built Drawings (GIS As-Builts) → Backreaming in Directional Boring → Bore Log → Building Riser → Cable Plowing → Cable-in-Conduit (CIC) → Central Office (CO) → Conduit and Innerduct → Dark Fiber → Data Center Interconnect (DCI) → Dead-End in Aerial Construction → Demarcation Point (Demarc) → Directional Boring (HDD) → Drilling Fluid in HDD → FTTH and FTTx → Fiber Attenuation → Fiber Cleaver → Fiber Distribution Hub (FDH) → Fiber Distribution Terminal (FDT) → Fiber Drop → Fiber Jetting (Air-Blown Fiber) → Fiber Loss Budget → Fiber Network Design → Fiber Optic Connector → Fiber Pedestal → Fiber Splice Tray → Fiber to the Tower (FTTT) → Figure-8 Self-Supporting Cable → Fusion Splicer → Fusion Splicing → GPON → Handhole and Vault → Headend → Lashing Wire → Make-Ready Engineering → Meet-Me Room (MMR) → Microtrenching → Mule Tape (Pull Tape) → NESC (National Electrical Safety Code) → Network Interface Device (NID) → OTDR Testing → One-Touch Make-Ready (OTMR) → Optical Network Terminal (ONT) → Outside Plant (OSP) → Overlashing → Passive Optical Network (PON) → Pole Attachment and Joint Use → Pole Loading Analysis → Potholing (Daylighting) → Pull Box → Ribbon Fiber vs Loose Tube → Right-of-Way (ROW) in OSP Construction → Route Marker → Sag and Tension → Serving Terminal (NAP) → Single-Mode vs Multimode Fiber → Slack Loop (Slack Storage) → Splice Closure → Strand and Lashing → Surface Restoration → Underground Warning Tape → Utility Locate (811) → Vibratory Plow → Visual Fault Locator (VFL) →