Nate, If they want to keep the clearQAM video feed in place, that is pretty straightforward to do via RF overlay on top of a GPON or XGSPON Network. A couple pieces of equipment at the headend and a $10 optical receiver at each house. No STB required.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 5:43 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > The Boss and I are having an arug^H^H^H^H Discussion about installing > fiber in a campground (Mostly permanent Singlewide units). He thinks > that it would be too difficult to do. I contend that with > Microtrenching down the campground roads, this would be the perfect > deployment for Gpon Fiber. > > Campsites are concrete pad Road to road, no dirt runs between multiple > trailers without lots of concrete cutting. So at most there would be 2 > trailers fed off each duct drop from the asphalt road. > > When you do microtrenching, do you just do a bunch of microduct, then > break off a microduct whenever you need it? There would probably be ~20 > microducts that could run out of a central Handhole at the end of the > street, and feed both sides of the street for 40 trailers. 20 trailers > per side, 10 microduct drops per side 1 microduct feeding 2 trailers. > Is that too many for a microtrench? > > There is an existing coax cable plant, installed in the early 80's that > is bandaided together to provide Docsis at about 10mb/5mb, with many > many outages. All utilities are private, unmarked, and sometimes near > the surface. > > The microtrenching videos make it looks like you just advance down the > street at a few feet per minute, with a fixed road behind you. Is it > not that simple? I'm thinking the whole campground of 1500 spots could > be installed in a few weeks. > > Anyone done campground deployments? Tree coverage makes RF not as > feasible. Downside of fiber is that there are a handful of clearQAM TV > Channel on the existing coax plant. That's much harder to do with fiber > without some sort of STB agreement. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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