Why not buy a pre-terminated cable? Helps in several ways. It is could be cheaper as they won’t use field-installable crimp connectors. They will test it and make sure all strands are within acceptable loss limits. And if you buy it from someone who has all sorts of different cable types on the shelf you get around your availability problem. They will just cut off what you ask for and charge you by the foot.
PC Blaze Broadband From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy via Af Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 6:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WTB: 200' Armored fiber - 12 strand (for towers) Also, the Corning rack splice trays and tower boxes will accept six LC connectors (I know they make a 12 as well, but the tray in my rack will already accept another adapter later). This is me planning for future upgrades, as I am only installing one link on the fiber now. Plus, I am using field-installable crimp connectors and they are freaking expensive. I don't really want to terminate much more than that just for future expansion. I am running a fiber from our server room to the roof at the NOC and one at our main mountaintop site, which regularly takes strikes. We are installing a new 6GHz link between these sites and I don't really want to run them on Ethernet. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: For six backhauls. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Chuck Hogg via Af <[email protected]> wrote: Curious why you want 12 strand? Regards, Chuck On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Jason McKemie via Af <[email protected]> wrote: It usually isn't a problem finding shorter lengths. The shortages I've noticed are mainly several thousand foot spools. On Friday, October 17, 2014, Adam Moffett via Af <[email protected]> wrote: I was told there's a shortage right now. I'm still looking for somebody to sell us 200' of fiber for a project that we are working on. It seems like nobody was using multimode last time we asked so we didn't get any takers. We have decided to just use singlemode instead since that seems to be what most are using. I really don't want to buy 3300 feet on a 14 week lead time to complete this backhaul project. So does anyone out there want to sell us 200' of good quality fiber for a tower project that we are working on?
