Especially true if you're colo'd with high powered transmitters.
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From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 9/19/2016 10:12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DC tower cable bundle
That doesn't do much for me. I don't want any copper data plugged into
my infrastructure. It's another weak point. Yes, I want OOB management,
but I don't want copper data.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
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From: "George Skorup" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 9:46:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DC tower cable bundle
Power + fiber is cool and all, but the 1246 brings a cat6 with it.
Which is nice because most licensed radios for example have a dedicated
10/100 copper management port.
On 9/18/2016 9:31 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f__mi9wJTI ;-)
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
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From: "George Skorup" mailto:[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 9:29:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DC tower cable bundle
This stuff looks pretty freakin cool...
https://www.shireeninc.com/osc/dfp-1246-data-fiber-power-composite-cable-500ft-spool
On 9/18/2016 9:00 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
Superior Essex sells a 16/2 and a 16/4 with outdoor jacket for use on
towers.
You could also run a higher gauge wire that will carry the necessary
total amperage and split it at the top with terminal blocks. You
might need something burly for that, like for four Telrad 1000 BTS's
at 100watts each you'd want at least 6ga THHN going up in a 1/2"
conduit, and you'd have around 5% heat loss at 100m. But that's a
smaller footprint on the tower than 16/4 x 4, or 16ga THHN x 16.
My quick figuring with home depot prices says it's cheaper to run the
pair of 6ga than to run a bundle of 16ga. If you bump up to 4ga it's
still cheaper than running all 16's, but by less margin. The
downside of course is that you can't power cycle an individual unit,
and maintenance (like replacing DC SS) would affect everything
instead of just the one unit.
If you did run one big cable up, you'd still need individual outdoor
jacketed cables to branch out to the base stations.
I'm not sure of the cost difference vs Superior Essex, but I've also
seen outdoor speaker wire at 16ga.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Craig Schmaderer" <[email protected]>
To: mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: 9/16/2016 5:24:43 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] DC tower cable bundle
Looking for advice on what my options are for running 16 DC
conductors around 16 awg to power LTE and/or medusa radios on a
tower. Hybrid fiber option would be ok too. I know I have seen
Verizon on some of our towers use the hybrid cables. Thanks, Craig.
Craig R. Schmaderer
CEO | Skywave Wireless, Inc.
Ph: 402-372-1975 | Fax: 402-372-1058
Direct: 402-372-1052
