On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > The fact remains that provisioning fiber to the home costs about 1000 per > $endpoint for something durable (source: the guy that > installed fiber to my house). And that is here in suburbia, where they > string the fiber between poles, and don't run it in underground vaulting, > which costs about $300/foot (source: a guy from Electric Lightwave, whose > company some of us helped get permission to compete with Verizon here in > Beaverton).
Last autumn Tetra Tech Construction Services, under contract to Verizon, dug holes under the streets all over this area, installed both large and small vault boxes, and placed flexible pipe through the system for installation of fiber cables. I'd be surprised if it cost $300/ft ... then again, perhaps not. The darn paint is still on all the sidewalks, lawns, and streets from all the multicolor utility markings. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
