Running fiber and copper wire separately gets you the same function with lower cost. Having both in one cable is nice but are you will to pay extra to combine them?
If so, companies are waiting for your order. Commscope and RFS are the players in this cable type for the Cellular carrier tower market. At the recent OSP show I talked with Dan Tomica at Cablecon and looked at a sample cable they had on display. He implied he is cheaper. I told him WISPs would like something like this. I think he said they could do a custom cable in as little a 5k ft but obviously the price would be lower per foot with a bigger order. So you need to decide what you want. SM? MM? How many strands? How many conductors? What gauge? Gel? Water block thread? Strength members? Jacket material? Armor? Let us know what price you get. Maybe you can put together a buying consortium. http://www.cablcon.com/pdf/088_Cablcon%20Bro_FibertoAntennaFTTAFTTx.pdf PC Blaze Broadband From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of timothy steele via Af Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:05 PM To: af@afmug.com Cc: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Custom fiber cable? Everything is pricy to begin with but after the demand is there price will go down just think of all the ways it would change the wisp industry No longer having to deal with cable interference on towers You can now link 450 radios 1000ft from farm house where you have line of sight It will allow manufactors to use fiber on AP's instead of Ethernet and get its power from the power wires It fixes soo many issues I really think this is a cable that needs to be made — Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Jason McKemie via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: It's certainly possible, you just might not like the price. On Saturday, October 18, 2014, timothy steele via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: I'm sure you have all seen the coax cable exeed uses with the extra copper on outside of jacked for power.. Dose anyone one know is it's possible to order fiber with 2 copper wires on out side of jacket in its own jacket? — Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox>
