.30/ft for conduit or fiber...both?

Jon Langeler
Michwave Technologies, Inc.


> On Aug 29, 2018, at 8:50 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> 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 <ch...@wbmfg.com> 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 <ch...@wbmfg.com> 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 <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jason McKemie
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:17 PM
>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <Af@af.afmug.com>
>>> 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
>>> AF@af.afmug.com
>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>>> -- 
>>> AF mailing list
>>> AF@af.afmug.com
>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>> 
>> -- 
>> AF mailing list
>> AF@af.afmug.com
>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>> -- 
>> AF mailing list
>> AF@af.afmug.com
>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
> 
> -- 
> AF mailing list
> AF@af.afmug.com
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
> -- 
> AF mailing list
> AF@af.afmug.com
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
-- 
AF mailing list
AF@af.afmug.com
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Reply via email to