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. >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> ------------------------------ >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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