I try hard to steer clear of direct-burying cable, which is much easier to damage and extremely time-consuming to repair, unless it's a non-crucial line (e.g. standard residential customer, although those we currently put in conduit as well, to keep future risk and repair costs low).
If this customer is paying 1/4 million to get a line installed, it's probably crucial. One day when that line gets hit, if it's in conduit it's likely possible to get it repaired within hours to a day. I've even heard of cases of the fiber surviving a conduit-line hit since it's "loose" inside the conduit and has slack at the ends. If a direct-buried line gets hit, especially next to a road etc, it may be needed to get locates, arrange a drill, electrical/gas line safety watch, etc, possibly even arrange more permitting for a new vault, which will often move time to repair to days or a week+. On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 9:28 AM Chris Fabien <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve in our area we could do that "on the cheap" with 12 or 24 count > cable direct buried for around 100k. There are so many variables though. > You really need someone who has done work in that area and is familiar with > permitting costs and requirements. I'd it's so rural that you can plow the > bulk of it and you are OK with direct bury you can save a ton of money vs > putting it all in duct. > > Personally I run at least 24 strands on any run that's going "somewhere". > Dead end runs can be 12F. > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 1:46 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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