Depending on many variables, especially if you can plow some non-crossing
lengths to save money, this will cost 1/4 to 1/3 million - the customer has
the budget?

>From those questions it sounds like your fist fiber build, so my
recommendation would be to have an experienced contractor do the design and
management, so that you don't miss something major (e.g. that a certain
road is state RoW instead of town RoW for whatever reason, and it turns out
that you not only need to get different authorizarion to install there, but
they need your line below 5ft, so if you plowed your conduit in at 3ft
before the govt figured out how to tell you that, you need to rip it all
out and re-do it, with much more expensive drilling).

Also often experienced project managers have good hints like "if you can
push your path one road over, most utilities aren't in there so you can
save lots of money on not hydrovacing their lines and additional drill
shots", or they know the unwritten processes to get maps of other utilities
so you know where is easiest/cheapest to go. Also you would want to know
how to register in your state CBYD membership and pay fees etc...

Drilling under creeks/major ditches, at least in our province, required
permission from government waterways department, which is a long process
that doesn't always say "yes" at the end. Also they may require certain
depth or pipe wall thickness that would require you to rent a bigger, more
expensive drill than what you expected/budgeted to use for the rest of the
project.

A big increase in cable size will cost more to install due to time/effort
manipulating the spools (possibly large costs if you change from "carry by
hand" flat-drop 2ct size reels to "need to rent a toolcat for the whole
project and clear a large area of brush so you can drive it in" 96ct reels)
and additional difficulty/time jetting fiber into the conduit. Also for a
big change you will need to switch the conduit and vaults (for slack
storage) one size up, which adds costs up fast. Also a big change will take
much longer to splice, so if you are splicing it every mile and at every
creek crossing, that may double/triple your splicing costs.

There's more detail, that I don't want spend forever writing, our company
has been doing an extensive variety of fiber deployment (in Manitoba, which
has its share of ground and weather challenges) so if you want you can
phone me at some point and we can talk.


On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 12:46 AM Steve Jones <[email protected] wrote:

> If a guy wanted to get fiber in the ground, non aerial between two
> buildings to replace an existing licensed 1.3 gb link. Crosses 3
> creek/ditches, 10 rural intersections, 10 rural town blocks. What would be
> needed?
> I would guess that duct is the best thing to put it in, innerduct being
> better.
> I'd guess 96+ count isn't going to cost any more per strand to put in the
> duct than 2 (not the cost of the fiber itself)
> Lots of dark strands and duct space is probably lucrative to have just in
> case.
> Slack, handholes, vaults, etc, what would you put in there? 10 or so
> customers on the path so not a ftth type thing.
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