What would you call this $10 device? On 11/6/2024 11:17 AM, Chris Fabien wrote:
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 listAF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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