“This modem has no ONT port. How do I connect it with the internet provider's fiber optic?”
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Your provider should be providing their own Optical Network Terminal (ONT) to mate to their network specific Optical Line Terminal (OLT). Verizon FiOS and and previous Verizon areas purchased by Frontier will provide an ONT. Google Fiber calls its ONT a Jack. (Model GFLT100, GFLT110, GFLT300). ATT Fiber will also provide its own ONT. That is their demarcation point and everything after it is your equipment (Ethernet Cables / Firewall / Router / etc). The Netgear CM1200 is a DOCIS 3.1 Cable Modem but designed for an entirely different type of network. Like the ONT is "customer side" transceiver of a passive fiber network (BPON / GPON / EPON / NGPON2) and the OLT is the "provider side" equipment. A cable modem is the transceiver on the "customer side" of a coaxial network segment and RF element at the node is the "provider side" of the network. (Most of the time it is fiber after the RF connection between the node and provider's internal network) You should have a piece of equipment at your location to convert fiber to Ethernet. If not, contact the provider and have them install it. If you have it at your location, it should have an Ethernet port on it that you connect your equipment to. If not, contact your provider. They should have people to help you do a self install or send someone to do it for you.
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