What about these guys? I have used a couple for smaller sites. It's quite nice. https://ioiobox.co/
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM Chris Fabien <ch...@lakenetmi.com> wrote: > Ken, yes this is a key benefit of PON over Coax/DSL based service. However > you do use up some of your optical budget with distance, which may impact > how many subscribers you can serve on that PON. So, you have to decide, is > it worth it to feed this PON from a hut 20 miles away, if it means I can > only fit 8 or 16 customers per PON? Or should I place an OLT closer and be > able to serve 64 per PON. PON ports are expensive, take power to operate, > needing to place larger cable and handholes is expensive, and burning up > hundreds of strand-miles carrying PONs that can only feed 8 customers is > expensive. In our network, we plan to serve about 10 mile radius from a > cabinet/hut. > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > >> 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> 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 >> >> Myakka Communications >> www.Myakka.com >> >> Serving Manatee and Sarasota Counties with High-Speed Internet for over >> 20 years >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- -- *Sam Lambie* Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com <http://www.newmex.com>
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