We have seen an extremely wide range of prices for dark fiber leases, it's one of these things where every situation and provider is different. I have been quoted prices over $100/mo per strand-mile and as low as $15/mo/strand-mile. A lot of the value seems to be what they suspect you're going to try to do with the strands. 50 Miles to a datacenter, you're gonna be running NxDWDM 100gig waves, big money. Shorter local/metro distance that maybe gets you between your NOC and a small/WISP style tower, or maybe grabbing a piece of an "island" run that can't even connect to anything else, much more reasonable prices.
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 5:50 PM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote: > > For those of you who have dark fiber access, what kind of costs do you have? > > I'm thinking more of the cost to access these strands? IRU costs, lease, > swaps with other providers, etc? > > I want some sort of ballpark costs to know what's reasonable when we start > looking at this over wavelengths for shorter paths. > > On Thu, May 2, 2024, 2:50 PM Chris Fabien <ch...@lakenetmi.com> wrote: >> >> Mark, we do exactly this on a segment where we have leased 2 strands >> of dark fiber on a 30mile path. The ends of the run have 8-ch DWDM >> Muxes and we have two spots along the run where we have an OADM in a >> splice case to drop out a wavelength. At those points, we set a >> handhole next to the carrier's handhole, and they looped the 2 strands >> onto a 12F jumper into our case, so our OADM is in our case, in our >> handhole. Just be sure your optical margins are planned for any >> potential add/drop points because each does have some loss. >> >> On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 12:41 PM Mark - Myakka Technologies via AF >> <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: >> > >> > We may have the opportunity to grab 2 strands of dark fiber. These will >> > allow us to build a loop between two points on our network. We have been >> > told we can also break into this fiber within our loop. I'm guessing when >> > we break into this fiber they will just extend the dark fiber into our >> > handhole and we will be responsible to figure out what we do once we cut >> > into that fiber. >> > >> > I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to do this passively so we >> > don't have to depend on having our loop run though a customers location. >> > I was thinking of CWDM. I can setup a CWDM/DWDM at our site and send >> > multiple wave lengths down the fiber. Is there a way for me to break out >> > just one wavelength at a hand hole passively? >> > >> > Let's say I have a North/South run of 2 strands going though a hand hole >> > and I what to break out 1270nm for a customer. Is there away for me in >> > the hand hole, passively, to peel off just 1270nm. Put something like a >> > 1x2 splitter in on N1, N2, S1, S2 and send those 4 fibers into the >> > customer site. Then install a couple of 1270nm optics in a switch to >> > preserve the loop for that one customer. >> > >> > Do the optics do all the magic or are there some type of filters in the >> > DWDM/CWDM modules? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com >> > >> > Myakka Communications >> > www.Myakka.com >> > >> > >> > -- >> > 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 > > -- > 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
