Yep strand count is cheap. No reason to scrimp. Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 22, 2018, at 9:06 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > I could do it for myself for perhaps $100k but I have all the equipment. I > would charge $5/ft for plowing plus $1/ft for materials. So Colin is right in > the mark. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 22, 2018, at 8:00 AM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. >>> -- >>> 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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