If I had to do fiber + DC, I would want each radio on its own pair of
fiber and power conductors coming all the way down. So far it's been
easier, cheaper and faster to run cat5. Just my opinion.
It would be nice to find 4 strand single or multi-mode + 4 #14 stranded
conductors in a single jacket. I would go for 2 + 2, but lots of stuff
is coming with separate management and data port SFP interfaces now.
Plus it never hurts to have an extra pair of wires at the radio for
maybe a 2+0/1+1 setup. And in that case, the 4 strands could be BiDi.
On 11/6/2014 7:00 PM, Mike Hammett via Af wrote:
I would want to do fiber up for each device, but I know many put a
switch up there. Eventually our vendors will listen to us and put
fiber on the APs.
I was excited about the squids until Chuck Hogg pointed me to some
high dollar eBay auctions for them. I guess I'll just put a PVC box up
there and a fiber patch panel.
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*From: *"Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af" <af@afmug.com>
*To: *"af" <af@afmug.com>
*Sent: *Thursday, November 6, 2014 6:56:49 PM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] Fiber up the tower questions.
For those of you who run fiber + DC up the tower....
Do you run a separate fiber pair up the tower for each radio? Or do
you mount an ethernet switch up top? How do you do injection, eth
switching, etc...
I'm continually being asked to do a product to help with these fiber
up the tower builds, and as we don't generally bump into the 100M
distance limit in installs I've been involved with I'm at a bit of a
loss understanding how people typically wire this - or I guess would
like to wire this.
Pictures would be great!
-forrest
