Chris, I would love to have you post a schematic diagram of your low count PON system. Do you use duct or direct burial?
From: Chris Fabien Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 9:00 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber - ROI We do fiber in 5-20 houses per mile areas. You have to get the cost down as much as possible. We plow most of our mainline direct buried, often use a 12-count tonable flat drop as mainline on side roads. With the right GPON splitting topology you can feed several hundred houses on a 12-count fiber. If the area is rural enough to not have a lot of paved driveways you can cover a lot of ground fast plowing. Cheap electronics like ZTE or UBNT. Everythign fusion spliced because splicing labor is cheaper for us than the fancy connectorized systems. Permitting cost will vary by area, our costs are $500 for the first mile and $50 per additional mile, one time fee. On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:54 AM Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> wrote: I’m looking at running fiber to some very rural areas. Even if I get grant funding to run it. How are those of you doing it making the ongoing ROI when you might have 5 houses each mile? Pole rentals are $15-$17/ea per year. Is trenching normally something you pay the state/county per mile? Per once permit? Does anyone know of a company I can consult with that will design and engineer FTTH networks? Chuck - are you still accepting folks to come down with you for a week to learn your ways of fiber? -- 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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