On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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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.
Isn't splicing cost a driving factor here? The above percentage points, do they include the cost of labor for fusion splicing of the fiber? -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se