Well that's with NO optics. I was figuring on the pair of BiDi's being
part of the customer installation cost.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 3/30/2017 6:45:55 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FTTH construction tiger team
36 users? Jesus.
That would be hard to beat..Even though that puts you at $900 plus s/h
just in optics, plus the switch cost.
I could do some napkin math when I'm no longer at a stop light to
figure out how many users per location the tipping point is for a low
cost OLT vs something with 48 SFP ports. A quick guess says around 100.
On Mar 30, 2017 3:19 PM, "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm on a similar quest for low cost deployment methods. If you find
your super contractor team, you can give me a quote.
I was planning a switch cabinet with rackmount 2U enclosures with
splice trays inside and a patch panel on the front.....now I'm looking
at a plain Hoffman box, fanout the cables and terminate with SOC's so
the cables go straight into a switch. Waaay fewer parts, waaay
cheaper box. You can also put splice trays on the back plane and
splice pigtails onto your fanouts rather than use SOC's. That's
probably cheaper still, but then the box is bigger. With the SOC's I
can keep the box down to 20" wide, and I can mount it right to the
bottom of one of our poles. I could also (as someone said) put a
splice enclosure above this box and splice a bundle of long pigtails
onto the OSP cable. I suspect that would come out slightly more
expensive.
This box for 36 AE users will come in under $1800 and goes right on
the pole. I've already got electric service where I'm putting
it.....if I didn't, then I'd figure on another $1000-1500.
I'm not ready for the PON rabbit hole yet, but I see a lot of room for
scrimping there. The problem I see is to be efficient with the cost
of the OLT you need to aggregate hundreds of customers to one spot.
There won't be a cheap 36 user PON box....unless UBNT is really cheap.
I don't know what there price is like.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 3/30/2017 1:50:18 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] FTTH construction tiger team
I am considering building a construction team that can drop into a
small town or large subdivision, install fiber and move on.
Something where I own the construction equipment and keep labor costs
low. Want to identify the minimum equipment necessary and the
methods of construction to provide the best value.
HDD with mud truck
Do we need a vacuum excavator?
Mini excavator
One of these drop plows. Whoever said their guy can do 5-8 homes per
day.... yeah that one (to lazy to search who it was).
What to use for hand holes?
Plastic hand holes?
What are the best values for splice cases?
Perhaps try UBNT GPON. Can always throw it in the ditch if it does
not work.
So a best practices/FTTH in a box schedule of equipment and methods
is needed. From that I will look at the ROI needed from the
equipment as well as the labor costs to estimate the costs to do a
subdivision.
From that we will look at the ROI on a competitive ARPU to see if an
area is worth doing.
I keep getting asked to do this, so I guess I better do this.
