Where are you sourcing your splitters? On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:50 AM Chris Fabien <ch...@lakenetmi.com> wrote:
> Chuck > Here is a quick sketch of the optical tap split we use. Each handhole uses > a custom ratio FBT splitter to peel off a small bit of light from the > mainline fiber, and then a normal PLC to break that up further to the > required number of customers. If you are at all familiar with CATV this is > essentially the same thing that coax taps do, just with light. The > appropriate FBT ratio has to be picked at each handhole, and it steps up in > % as you go down the line. > > You can chain as many as 15-20 of these taps in a line using just one > mainline strand, depending on split ratio, distance, and GPON optical > budget. We run ZTE using class C++ OLT optics and run this system out to > about 30km and still can split to cover about 20 houses over a mile of > road. > > We normally run rural mainline direct buried. When your mainlin cable is > 18 cents a foot 35 cents for duct just blows the budget plus it adds > another work step blowing or pulling the cable into the duct. > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:11 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > >> Chris, >> I would love to have you post a schematic diagram of your low count PON >> system. >> Do you use duct or direct burial? >> >> *From:* Chris Fabien >> *Sent:* Friday, March 1, 2019 9:00 AM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Fiber - ROI >> >> We do fiber in 5-20 houses per mile areas. You have to get the cost down >> as much as possible. We plow most of our mainline direct buried, often use >> a 12-count tonable flat drop as mainline on side roads. With the right >> GPON splitting topology you can feed several hundred houses on a 12-count >> fiber. If the area is rural enough to not have a lot of paved driveways you >> can cover a lot of ground fast plowing. Cheap electronics like ZTE or >> UBNT. Everythign fusion spliced because splicing labor is cheaper for us >> than the fancy connectorized systems. >> >> Permitting cost will vary by area, our costs are $500 for the first mile >> and $50 per additional mile, one time fee. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:54 AM Matt Hoppes < >> mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: >> >>> I’m looking at running fiber to some very rural areas. >>> >>> Even if I get grant funding to run it. How are those of you doing it >>> making the ongoing ROI when you might have 5 houses each mile? >>> >>> Pole rentals are $15-$17/ea per year. >>> >>> Is trenching normally something you pay the state/county per mile? Per >>> once permit? >>> >>> Does anyone know of a company I can consult with that will design and >>> engineer FTTH networks? >>> >>> Chuck - are you still accepting folks to come down with you for a week >>> to learn your ways of fiber? >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> ------------------------------ >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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