Chuck, we direct bury in rural areas. My cost for plowing is more like <50
cents per foot with our in house crew, figuring 2000ft per day.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 8:51 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you use direct burial?
>
> I do conduit.
> 30 cents per foot minimum.  Add at least $2/foot for plowing.  All in,
> maybe $3/foot and that is if I am doing my own plowing and splicing.
>
> *From:* Chris Fabien
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 6:42 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti Ufiber
>
> We have done 3 cabinets with cheapo AE (planet switches) and two sites
> with cheapo GPON(ZTE). We will be continuing to deploy GPON going forward.
>
> For us, the biggest advantage are ability to use small strand count cable
> which saves cost on material and also lets you serve a larger radius from a
> cabinet with the same size feeder cables (same # of strands in cabinet).
> And larger radius served means less power feeds to pay for and worry about
> backup power for.
>
> We push the strand savings to the extreme using the optical tap split
> method, and often serve many miles of homes using 18 cents per foot 12F
> drop cable.
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 3:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If you have one strand going out there, you hang a switch and give all 30
>> homes active E.
>>
>> Each home needs a drop.
>> So you have to connect the drop to either a splitter or an SFP.
>>
>> With AE you will have to power the switch but then  you have no shared
>> bandwidth, it has market cache vs shared bandwidth old fashioned GPON etc...
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Colin Stanners
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:57 PM
>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti Ufiber
>>
>> That's the main reason, and it branches into upgradeability. If a new
>> 30-house subdivision appears in a field a few miles from your headend, and
>> you have a spare 10 strands going out there, you only need to use 2-3
>> strands instead of running new 48-strand cable the whole way.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:53 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> So, other than the obvious strand count advantages, why would you use
>>> this vs active ethernet?
>>>
>>> *From:* Jim Bouse [Brazos WiFi]
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:04 PM
>>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti Ufiber
>>>
>>>
>>> It works fine.  We have it in 2 subdivisions.
>>> It is brain dead simple to configure.
>>>
>>> Since it “Just Works” there isn’t a lot to configure.  The ONU (cpe) can
>>> run in bridge or router mode.  I’m not sure what the routing/NAT speeds are
>>> capable of but it will do 1G in bridge mode without breaking a sweat.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Bouse
>>> Owner - Brazos WiFi
>>> 979-985-5912
>>> http://www.brazoswifi.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Jason McKemie
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:17 PM
>>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
>>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Ubiquiti Ufiber
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone actually have this equipment in a production environment?  I
>>> have a test setup, just haven't heard much discussion about it so I thought
>>> I'd check with the group.
>>>
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