Second what Nick said. Also, get quotes for double, quadruple, and more of the number of fibers you think you need today. If it makes economic sense to leave strands unterminated (coil neatly in the splice tray and have someone term later) by all means do it. Extra strands in the cable are almost free compared to the labor to pull it in. -r Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> writes:
On 02/10/2012 13:35, Hank Disuko wrote:
- 2 x 6-Strand 50/125u multimode, Tight Buffered, Armoured, Laser Ultra-Fox Fiber cables - Distance of run is approx 520 meters
For that length, go with single-mode. 10G-LR will happily run on 10km of SMF, but 10G-SR flakes out at ~300m even on OM3. Laying outdoor MMF plant like this is totally pointless. Using MMF for anything outside your cabinet / small cage is creating a legacy deployment on day 1 which will bite you in future years.
To answer the question you asked: if the ducts are already in place and you're just pulling fibre through, you should have a breakdown in terms of # of terminations + the manpower required to handle the pull + cable finishing. I.e. it shouldn't be very much. If you need ducting laid or if your existing ducting is in poor shape, that's a different issue.
Nick