[TriLUG] Neighborhood Fiber

[John Ostrander via TriLUG]

This is great, I'd love to see a presentation on the A-Z of everything
involved in doing this yourselves.   wink, wink, nudge, nudge


On 06/07/2018 04:05 PM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
> (new thread so I don't continue to hijack the other one) Don't be such
> a spoilsport :) 1) Permitting and Easements, we're in the county
> (Chatham) so we don't need permits, and we're getting easements from
> each neighbor whose yard we cross, approx. $3500 legal fees 2)
> Existing Utilities: we're trenching through back yards, so there
> aren't any except for well pumps, which we'll be going behind. 3)
> Fiber is lit by AT&T at my house and ready to go. We are "re-lighting"
> it using UBNT gear. (see below) 5) Paying for it: 12 Neighbors are in,
> splitting the ~$15,000 installation cost (including legal costs) and
> ~$1,000/month data cost for 150/150Mbps dedicated Ethernet from AT&T
> Trenching it ourselves is saving at least $25,000. I will have to pay
> for the fiber splicing, since I don't have the equipment or experience
> to do this myself, but that cost will be under $2,000. Ubiquiti
> equipment means we only need 1 fiber strand per household, so we save
> cost there. Here is the equipment: Head End: EdgeSwitch ES-12F
> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AY9V8IO/> with 12 Gigabit SFP
> ports and 4 Gigabit Ethernet, ~$200 Each House: EdgePoint EP-R6
> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CNKF26G/> outdoor PoE router
> with Gigabit SFP, ~$115 SFP Pairs: U-Fiber Single-Mode
> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4KWOI1/> Gigabit SFP, ~$30/pair
> 3200 ft. Corning 36-strand single-mode fiber, ~$0.35/ft. 5000 ft.
> Corning 6-strand single-mode fiber, ~$0.20/ft. I'll let you know how
> it goes. -Wes _________________________________ Wesley S. Garrison
> Network Engineer Xitech Communications, Inc. phone: (919) 260-0803
> fax: (919) 932-5051 __________________________________ "Lead us not
> into temptation, but deliver us from email." On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at
> 12:57 PM, Brian via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> On 06/07/2018 12:24 PM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
>>> Which is why I am trenching fiber through our neighborhood MYSELF.
>>> Seriously. I'm renting a walk-behind trencher from Home Depot and
>>> trenching 7000 ft. of fiber.
>> This seems ill-advised. What about... - Permitting, easements, etc. -
>> Existing buried utilities - Lighting the fiber - Paying for it all