Any numbers on what it costs to serve an average urban or suburban neighborhood per home ? Trying to get some ideas if we can afford the investment in fiber.
Like what would it cost to serve say 100 or 200 homes? And idea on roi if you were paying for the fiber to be laid like I will be? On Oct 11, 2014 9:46 PM, "Sterling Jacobson via Af" <af@afmug.com> wrote: > Hybrid model, I bring bandwidth in via wireless to the neighborhood and > set up a cabinet that serves all the houses in active Ethernet fiber. > > GPON is ok, but in this model so much of the expense was burial of conduit > that it really didn’t make sense to just pull for GPON. > > Plus GPON restricts you to a specific vendor market. > > > > My model might not scale to thousands of installs a month, but it works > for hundreds a POP. > > > > A POP is about $15k for 200+ connections completely contained and > redundant. > > The end points and fiber construction are on top of that of course. > > > > That is the major expense, the labor to bore and trench and splice hella > ton of conduit, boxes and fiber strands. > > My entire GigE NID/ONT setup is less than $100 installed though. > > > > Buried conduit all the way to the side of the house, and fiber to the NID. > > It’s built to last, the conduit and fiber being our biggest expense and > asset. > > > > Mikrotik “ONT” and off the shelf lasers from china for next to nothing. > > > > I haven’t seen any cheaper ONT setup than what we do, and it’s full GigE. > > The only piece of the puzzle I’m missing to do 10GigE to the home is a > cheaper transceiver. > > I’m sure that will come next year. Sky’s the limit once the fiber is in > the ground on a one to one basis with the switch and the ONT. > > We leave enough fiber to do a pair at the house, though everything is BIDI > right now. > > > > I don’t believe in VoIP or TV, so it’s all Ethernet. The customer can get > their traditional phone and TV elsewhere. > > Which is nice for regulations because we dodge every single headache I > used to have with a WISP. > > > > This fiber stuff is soooooooooooooooo much better and easier. > > > > Costs more though. > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Jason Pond via Af > *Sent:* Saturday, October 11, 2014 8:03 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Weekend Wispalooza > > > > So enlighten us to what you are doing Sterling. So far so good. > > Tomorrow will answer some more. > > Sincerely, > > Jason Pond > Owner > Grizzly Internet, Inc > p...@grizzlyinternet.com > > On Oct 11, 2014 6:36 PM, "Sterling Jacobson via Af" <af@afmug.com> wrote: > > Anyone there that would like to update? > > I couldn't make it. > > Not sure that I would have gotten anything out of it anyways. > > I don't use any equipment from any of the sponsors/vendors of fiber > weekend. > > I'm just curious if they are all talking/preaching the same ONT/deployment > strategies as usual? > > I wonder how close they are to what I am doing. > >
