Can’t you feed a PON over fiber from 10, 20, 30 miles away if you have the strands? I used to assume it was like phone pedestals and crossboxes, cable TV nodes, or UVerse cabinets that had to be within a block or two of the customer. But it seems like you could find a location for an active electronics hut miles away along your fiber route.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chris Fabien Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 2:33 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Small Outdoor Cabinet We have a few cabinet sites like this, using DDB Cabinets. For fiber slack we just place a handhole next to them. What works best is buying a pre-loaded fiber panel with a few hundred ft pigtail and then splicing to your OSP cable in the handhole. Lessons learned after having cabinets in the field for close to 10 years: 1. They overheat very quickly if the A/C fails. Like 20 minutes. 2. Hard to store enough batteries/UPS for reasonable length of backup to roll a generator. The cabinet pictured, when fully loaded only had 90 minutes of battery power, and that doesnt include A/C. We tried burying batteries in a handhole but they eventually flooded and failed. 3. They are likely to end up being too small, fiber networks tend to grow. 4. You may want to buy property nearby to place a hut later, and nobody will want to sell 5. It's a lot of work and overnight splicing to re-reoute a few hundred strands of fiber out of a cabinet and into a hut without causing major outages. I am only building fiber huts for new sites. More cost but so much easier to live with. On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM Mark - Myakka Technologies via AF <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > wrote: I'm looking for a small outdoor cabinet may 19" rack about 10U. Would like something that could work as a Handhole/Cabinet where I can store fiber loop under it. Never had to shop for anything like this. -- Thanks, Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com <mailto:m...@mailmt.com> Myakka Communications www.Myakka.com <http://www.Myakka.com> Serving Manatee and Sarasota Counties with High-Speed Internet for over 20 years -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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