What is being used as the multi-port SFP switch at the cabinet/head-end? Brand/Model/etc
This would be for a cul-de-sac of about 30 homes. Matt From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Pond Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber Buildout Forum SEE INLINE RED 1. Would you be able to make those power points available to the list? I LEAVE THIS TO STERLING AND CHUCK TO POST 2. What all equipment do you actually have at the house? Are you running the fiber up to the house and then making it the customers responsibility from there? Or are you running some interior Ethernet cable for people? So this depends a little on setup but for the most part you need to have an outside NID box, and maybe outside ONT for a GPON setup, In Sterling's case he was putting a RB250GS in an outdoor enclosure and ethernet inside to a WiFi router I think of customer choosing. We are taking a different approach and putting a RB2011 inside with Fiber going all the way to the inside of the house and managing the customer router for them. 3. Could I get a rough list of what is actually going in the neighborhood peds? There are pedestals/vault and cabinets. Inside a peds/vault there is just fiber maybe a splice case or MST box depending on the design. Cabinets on the other hand need equipment to do the following: Access to you network and to feed your network out to the customer. I.E. EDGE/CORE Router hooked to fiber or wireless devices to receive the internet / network feed and if you are doing an Active Ethernet setup like Sterling and Chuck Hogg you need multi-port SFP switches. Each SFP port goes to a customer. Single fiber to each household / business. 4. Are you still able to use Powercode (or whatever you are using for your wireless customers) for your billing/monitoring/rates? Or did you have to get a secondary system to handle the fiber customers? Powercode is just a customer management system w/ billing so yes you can use it and you can keep track of all of your details in it also. I.E. Tube # / Color / Fiber strand to which customer and what port they are plugged into the switch 5. How are you keeping track of where your underground facilities are for years down the road? Are you using GPS coordinates at endpoints and service connections, measurements off of cross streets, or just planning to be able to use a locator to find it? Some are using google maps, others surveying, we will be using a GPS tracking software kept in a database tracked through iDevices with GPS bluetooth "pucks" this will be exported into google maps and KML format when done for future needs. I will have this system available for use later in the year with a lot more details after our build gets underway. Just like in wireless you can skin the cat a million ways everyone has a different take and we hope to help anywhere we can as our project gets underway this summer. Sincerely, Jason Pond Grizzly Internet, Inc On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Trevor Bough <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hey guys, I really enjoyed the fiber build out forum and have come up with a few questions since lunch yesterday: 1. Would you be able to make those power points available to the list? 2. What all equipment do you actually have at the house? Are you running the fiber up to the house and then making it the customers responsibility from there? Or are you running some interior Ethernet cable for people? 3. Could I get a rough list of what is actually going in the neighborhood peds? 4. Are you still able to use Powercode (or whatever you are using for your wireless customers) for your billing/monitoring/rates? Or did you have to get a secondary system to handle the fiber customers? 5. How are you keeping track of where your underground facilities are for years down the road? Are you using GPS coordinates at endpoints and service connections, measurements off of cross streets, or just planning to be able to use a locator to find it?
