[173397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Jul 23 10:43:26 2014
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:41:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <53CF1D89.8050808@dougbarton.us>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Barton" <dougb@dougbarton.us>
> > I was planning AE, and to deploy 3 pair per drop, except on multiunit
> > building, where my overbuild ratio would be between 1.6 and 1.2 or
> > so.
>
> Heh, great minds think alike, as I was contemplating the same issue that
> Keenan raised. My number of pairs was 5 though ... 1 each for TV, Phone,
> and Internet providers, 1 as a spare in case something breaks, and 1 for
> the thing that hasn't been invented yet. The thinking being that strands
> of dark fiber are cheaper then retrenching, etc.
IIRC, going from 1pr to 3pr raised my build cost about 12ish %, going to
6pr would have been another 12%, cause you have term equipment costs to
think about in addition to the fiber cost, which is delta.
Conductors are cheap, people are pricey.
Cheers,
-- jra
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