On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:17 AM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm guessing that optical fiber for distance runs, generally comes in > very large spools. But I'm not seeing any suppliers or OEMs. > Does anyone have some links I could try because they really want to do > this and I think it would be awesome to hook a small town in Ecuador > up with gigabit internet :) > That would be pretty awesome. So the question then becomes how exactly does one obtain 1 or 2 Km of > optical fiber? > All google is giving me on the subject is links to places that sell > short runs and patch cables, although I did find a good deal on a > 1000BaseT to Fiber connector that says it's good for up to 100Km. Something to keep in mind is that 1-2 km of fiber is actually a relatively short run of fiber. Unjacketed fiber is commonly sold in spools between 10km and 50km. That would require you to jacket them and connectorize them yourself. I also ran across jacketed, pre-terminated spools here: http://www.lanshack.com/Outdoor-Pre-Terminated-Assembly-C51.aspx /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
