Shawn, We would prefer to run CAT5 or CAT6 instead of fiber due to cost. The cost of the cable and install is about the same, but the cost of splicing and electronics is widely different. With fiber, you are talking about a cost of at least $40 per unit for the most basic fiber ONT or media convert with 1 optical in and 1 electrical Gig-e out. So with a building of 8 units you are looking at $320. Not to mention you either have to have a OLT in the case of GPON/EPON, or a multi port fiber switch if using media converts. If you go with a media converter option like the IgniteNet Fiber Switch and their media convert, you then have to buy an SFP for each side as well. Plus you have to have a SFP for both the swith and media convert. All for the same 1G electrical handoff. I would think fiber to the unit would cost at least 4x the cost.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Shawn C. Peppers < [email protected]> wrote: > If you going to run a new cat5 why wouldn't you just do a FTTH > application? Anyways You can pick up decent cisco switches on ebay. I use > all cisco on my mdu applications. > > Shawn C. Peppers > Video Direct Satellite & Entertainment > 866-680-8433 Toll Free > 480-287-9960 Fax > http://www.video-direct.tv > > On Nov 2, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Colton Conor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am in need of a recommendation for a small Ethernet switch for an MDU > applications. This is a garden style community where each building has > between 4 to 8 units inside of the building. There are 15 buildings on the > property. We would run a new CAT6 drop from a central point in the building > to each unit. This central point would either be in the attic, or on the > side of the exterior wall in some type of enclosure. > > Then we would run fiber uplink from each building's switch to a headend > room. The headend room would have the aggergation fiber switch, a router, > and an uplink to the internet. > > We would hand a copper Ethernet hand off to the client in a unit, and then > the could use whatever router they wanted, or plug their computer in > directly to the wall. > > I think all I need is a switch per building (not a router), and ideally > this switch needs to have: > > - At Least 1 SFP fiber uplink port. 2 would be nice for daisy chaining, > but not required. > - 4 to 8 Copper Gigabit Ports. I don't need POE output power on these > ports. > - SNMP For remote monitoring > - CLI or some sort of web based remote management > - Temperature Hardened or able to be in a hot attic > - Some sort of L2 port isolation or private vlans where other subscribers > can see each other. All traffic goes in and out of uplink > - Rate limiting for each individual port > - Full duplex speed and wireline switching is preferred. > - We be nice to be remotely powered using PoE in, but not required. Might > be hard however to get power to the attic or side of building. > > > So far, options that come to mind are: > > https://routerboard.com/RB260GS for $36. Looks like a good option, but > not sure about SwitchOS. Worried Mikrotik won't continue to improve > switchOS. Feature set seems limited. Not sure about port isolation options? > Says it support Poe-In for power. Temp range looks good. No CLI. > > https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x-sfp/ $72. Double the price of > the Mikrotik. OS seems more robust. Seem more like a router than switch so > might be overkill for application. NO Poe-IN power option, but could I used > a passive poe injector to still power it remotely? > > https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgepoint/ The EP-R6 is about $105. Looks > like its basically the edgerouter-x-sfp but in an outdoor case, and this > model supports PoE Input. This smaller unit doesn't seem to have any fiber > slack management like the other units in the edgepoint lineup. Includes POE > injector to power unit. > > I was thinking maybe a GPON ONT per building that has 4 to 8 Ethernet > ports on it. However, there are no small GPON OLTs out there. Plus, most > outdoor ONT's are like $250+ each. > > > What else is out there? I would say price range would be sub $200 per > building max. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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