Unity Fiber Installs Fiber Optics Unit on the King Street Ext. in West Augustine

A new fiber optics hut has been installed on the south side of the King Street Ext between Sanatorium Avenue and Hurst Street in West Augustine.

This 10 x 20 building is owned by Unity Fiber, which owns more than 123,000 fiber route miles and 7.1 million fiber strand miles according to their corporate profile, and it offers Internet service across 15 states with most of the coverage in Florida, Alabama and Louisiana. 

The new Unity Fiber fiber optics hut was brought in by truck, and with the help of a large crane and half a dozen workers it was lifted onto a foundation. 

It will help provide fiber optics to businesses and schools, and it will increase the Internet speed for those connected.

This particular fiber optics hut is where the main fiber glass strands comes in and where the electrical will be, and there is a generator on the outside of the facility. 

The installment today of the Unity Fiber fiber optics hut has been two years in the making, as the company prepared the site, got studies done and waited for approval. The fiber optics unit only takes up a small amount of space in the front of the property, and the rest of the property going back to Sanitorium Avenue will remain a wooded natural area. 

In the next two weeks, the company will plant 27 trees including elms and boxwoods to replace the trees they have removed, and a 8 ft tall chain link fence will be installed with barb wire at the top to protect the facility and residents. 

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