i wish i had a link or image, but we has some 12 strand run, the contractor sources some FTTH boxes pretty cheap that had the guts and splice tray for 24 strands. i think it was for exterior MDU terminations, but wall mounted or pole mounted, i think it was under 100 bucks
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:44 PM Brough Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking for advice (&/or war stories). I need to terminate 12- or > 24-strand fiber cables at the base of non-penetrating roof mounts and then > run outdoor jumpers to 2 or more radios on the same or nearby poles. Can > you suggest a suitable termination box, ideally pole-mounted? appropriate > outdoor dual-fiber armored or rugged jumper cables? > > Background: > We're an urban WISP with two or more radios on each of several hundred > buildings. These are mostly point-to-point links from Ignitenet, Siklu and > Bridgewave but, until recently, none faster than 3 Gbps with 2 & 3 Gbps > connections handed via LAg of Cat5e cables from a Netonix switch > located indoors on an upper floor. Now we are beginning to deploy 10 Gbps > radios and need to add fiber to the rooftops. We've deployed SM fiber > indoors on ~10 occasions when building complexes had paths exceeding 100 > meters, so we plan to stay with SM fiber and dual LC-LC connectors. To > date, we have purchased pre-terminated fiber cables and some bulk cable > which we've terminated using a Corning UNICAM kit. > > The current plan is to run 12-fiber cable from an indoor termination box > on the wall in our switch & router site to an outdoor pole-mounted > termination box attached near the base of one of the 5' or 10' > non-penetrating roof mounts used on most rooftops. From the pole-mounted > termination box we'll run outdoor armored dual fiber jumper cables to > individual radios. At the indoor switch/router site we'll add a MT CRS309 > switch and run indoor fiber jumpers between the router and the switch and > the switch and the fiber termination box. The existing Cat5e cable and > existing Netonix switch will provide PoE and 1 Gbps mgmt connections. > > Alternative suggestions welcome! > > Thanks, > Brough > > Brough Turner > netBlazr Inc. – Free your Broadband! > Mobile: 617-285-0433 Skype: brough > netBlazr Inc. <http://www.netblazr.com/> | Twitter > <https://twitter.com/#%21/brough> | LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/broughturner> | Facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/brough.turner> > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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