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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 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274