Most of our 100 Mb tower customers are asking about dark fiber and other options.
From: Mark Radabaugh Sent: Friday, March 02, 2018 10:50 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Typical Cell Tower bandwidth requirement Most of the contracts I have seen were for 100Mbps at the time and 1Gb in a few years. It’s been a few years since I have seen a contract though. So the guy was probably right that he installed 100Mb service, but it’s likely been upgraded since. Mark On Mar 2, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: The information he has is probably four years old. They're moving to dark fiber or tubes of dark fiber. A Sprint tower can move 1.3 gigs, with some doing more. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 9:03:07 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Typical Cell Tower bandwidth requirement I was talking to a Spectrum employee yesterday as he was installing a 1gig fiber circuit for me and he started talking about how un-common it was to be seeing a 1 gig DIA circuit installed so i said well what about the cell phone towers, don't those all have a couple gigs to them and he said. "Oh no those usually only have 100meg fiber feeds to them." I was like whoa, thats all? And he said "yeah all the Sprint, T-mobile, and At&T towers that he's been to are all like 100meg and he's like usually the Verizon ones are about 300meg circuits." Does that really sound possible that a cell tower is only using that much bandwidth? We are pretty rural here county population is only 45,000 and the city populations are only about 12,000. Can this really be true? And if so why can't a WISP sell a backup circuit to a cell tower with some Air Fiber equipment?
