[160382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Tue Feb 5 01:08:51 2013
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:08:38 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAMrdfRyyNGNDArNpRRBMh4bagQOKVN0+MkaJi=fx5RtSwuOG1g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 13-02-04 19:48, Scott Helms wrote:
> same trench IF you have buried cable and there is room. If you have aerial
> plant (common in rural telco deployments, less common in muni networks) you
> can also string your fiber on the same poles that you either own or have
> attachment rights to but the thickness of the cable doesn't change your
> costs any.
In Québec, some poles are owned by the telco and some by the electric
utility. They have a deal with each other to gain access to each other's
poles. However, that deal still involves engineering studies to ensure
the weight of wiring/equipment on poles is acceptable.
And this is where stringning heavier 867 strand cable could possibly
make a difference compared to stringing lighter 4 strands (or however
how many are used for GPON systems between OLT and splitter).
After the ice storm of 1998 here, they are a bit more careful about how
much weight they put on poles.
