[84510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Wed Sep 14 08:34:08 2005
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
Cc: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:33:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0509132259130.2852@jvc> (Todd Vierling's message
of "Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:04:02 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> writes:
> Seriously, though, that's exactly what you're describing, and about what I'd
> suggest in a no-other-option scenario -- but if it's possible to pull fiber
> through the conduits, it would probably be far less expensive long term, or
> even medium term if the physical fiber spools can be bought cheaply enough.
For those who haven't priced the stuff lately, in spools of 1000' the
per-foot prices of 2-strand MM tight buffered fiber suitable for
pulling in conduits like he (hopefully) has tends to be
price-competitive with cat5 on a per-foot basis. Extra strands are
cheap; the pricey part of fiber is the jacket and strength members;
even super-pure glass is not that expensive overall.
The expensive parts in the equation turn out to be the termination
trays and connectors.
---Rob
