"Repurposed" goods cost more due to the liability on the seller? :-p
If they're $1k, I suppose the DIY route is a lot more attractive. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hogg via Af" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 7:38:40 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber for tower (revisited) I've heard you had to go custom cable assemblies with it, super expensive before you hit that part. EbAY HAS THEM FOR $1,099. http://tinyurl.com/kozhqb6 Regards, Chuck On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Mike Hammett via Af < [email protected] > wrote: http://bit.ly/1o5mG0V Start there and go forward a couple pictures. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: "Jeremy via Af" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 10:11:38 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber for tower (revisited) I ended up ordering a 50/125 MTP cable pre-terminated on one side with 12 LC connections and MTP on the other side. Then I purchased mtp to 12 LC adapters. I just decided forget it and went unarmored in conduit to a 1U rack mount junction/splice housing on one side and a splice/junction box outside. Then I come out of that with patch cables in flex conduit to each BH. It worked out perfect but you do not want to know what I paid. Are these mtp to 12 LC the 'squids' that you are talking about? On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Mike Hammett via Af < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Has anyone figured out what the "squids" cost that the mobile guys use? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: "Jeremy via Af" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:44:26 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Fiber for tower (revisited) We are looking to run fiber for all of our licensed backhauls. I have seen Superior Essex armored fiber recommended before. I had a couple of questions. Do you usually just use two of the 12 fibers and run one cable to each backhaul? Do they make a version with just two pair? Is there a way for me to run the 12 into a box and then splice it out and run 6 backhauls over it? Would that be the recommended method? Then, on to termination....are most of you using the scoring tool and the field-installable ends that you squeeze to crimp? Are these recommended? Where is the best place to purchase these ends and tools? I have attached Mike's video of this process (which makes it look very simple btw) http://youtu.be/rKWLCVgkNtM </blockquote>
