In FTTH builds, equipment is typically under 10% of the total costs. Labor is usually 70-80% from quotes I've seen but people spend so much time figuring out equipment design when they should be finding ways to reduce their labor/install costs.
When a 2.5G PON becomes saturated, it'll be easy to upgrade but I have yet to find a single company with a saturated PON even with a 64 split. Homes simply can't use that much bandwidth. The average is still 3-4 Mbps per home and it does not double each year. It's probably a 25% increase year after year in our network. On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:24 PM Chris Fabien <ch...@lakenetmi.com> wrote: > Mark, I'm working on a grant application and they are wanting to see proof > (and a PE stamp) on the design that it will meet performance requirements > for X years. I'm very comfortable with GPON at a 32 split or less being > fine for probably at least 8+ years. Just was asking if there is an > industry standard way of calculating this or if everyone doesn't worry > about it. I suppose it would be much more relevant if we were proposing a > VDSL system instead of FTTH. > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:36 PM Mark - Myakka Technologies <m...@mailmt.com> > wrote: > >> Chris, >> >> Does it really matter? If you are AE you get 1GB per customer >> dedicated. Not too hard or expensive to to bump that to 10GB per customer >> dedicated. GPON does 2.5Gbps per pon usually shared by 32 customers. New >> 10 Gbps PON will do 10 per pon or I've even heard that they can do 40Gbps >> per pon using different wave lengths. >> >> Our system has been up and running for 6+ years. I've had to upgrade >> switches and routers. Even had to upgrade to sfp+ uplink cards on one of >> my fiber systems. Haven't had to touch GPON cards or customer ONT's. In >> my system I see the 2.5Gbps PON lasting for many many years unless >> something drastic happens. >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com <m...@mailmt.com> >> >> Myakka Technologies, Inc. >> www.Myakka.com >> >> ------ >> >> Thursday, August 8, 2019, 6:34:06 PM, you wrote: >> >> >> Is there any standard or common rule of thumb to design for future usage >> when designing a FTTH deployment? As in, we estimate average usage per sub >> to be 2Mbps now and increase by 40% per year. The intent being to certify >> that your design will meet demand for say 10 years. >> -- >> 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 > -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi www.mnwifi.com 507-634-WiFi <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi>
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