Well, to start with where is the current video feed coming from? If it's
generated on site you'd need a 1550 catv laser transmitter to make the copper RF
signal into 1550 light, that feeds into the multi port EDFA MUX to put it on the
PONS. I think this would be the laser from WSEE, we already had 1550 video
available so we did not buy a laser from WSEE.
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.
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.
