Sunday fiber time! Low cost fiber fta link.

[wallyhts]

Ok, so got some extra 48ct Single Mode (SM) going to run from back garage to house about 80 feet away. Going to hook 5 different birds from different lnb's up to just one fiber then break them back out to RG-6 behind my TV. Going to use 6-ct SM from basement to family room. Both enclosures mounted inside will splice in SC APC ends from pigtails.

Breaking it up into parts.

Part 1
Put the conduit underground 4 more feet in flower bed. Pull the cable 48ct cable into both areas.

That's my goal for today.

 

[KE4EST]

I want to see this working before bed time.

 

[wallyhts]

I want to see this working before bed time.

Lol I just got back from lowes no way this will get finished today.

 

[armadillo_115]

I'm curious...what advantages will this give you,Wallyhts?
Just looking to learn,thanks.

 

[wallyhts]

I'm curious...what advantages will this give you,Wallyhts?
Just looking to learn,thanks.

Being able to not have to run (5) RG-6 cables Just having fun really

The real advantage which I'm not having to use is the distance that fiber will allow that RG6/11 coax can't.

 

[wallyhts]

Part #1 halfway done fiber is pulled one hole drilled one more hole and bam.

 

[armadillo_115]

Being able to not have to run (5) RG-6 cables Just having fun really

The real advantage which I'm not having to use is the distance that fiber will allow that RG6/11 coax can't.

Ah,ok.Cool.The short distance was making me wonder if I was missing something.Have fun.

 

[wallyhts]

Box is mounted had to leave an angle on pipe so the bend into garage would work.

 

[wallyhts]

Enclosure mounted 48ct mounted and got blue buffer tube ready to strip and splice. well I got 75% finished today. Just need to do basement now

 

[PopcornNMore]

I just looked up the cost of those Foxcom fiber optic transmitters and AL5R receiver. WOW! Great project, but I think I would install 5 RG/6 coax runs to save money. No update since last Sunday, what's taking so long?

 

[KE4EST]

No update since last Sunday, what's taking so long?

Yeah good point, wallyhts the weekend is here again lets see more progress!

 

[wallyhts]

I'm hoping to have time this weekend to do more work on this.

I got some BiDi SFP's also so I can run Gig between basement and back garage over just one fiber

 

[fred555]

Do you know where I can get some reliable 10 Gig SFPs? Equivalent to Cisco SFP-10G-LR?
Two of the Cisco's are about $12,000. I'm connecting two data centers across a city and want to
save some budget money if possible without sacrificing reliability if possible.

 

[wallyhts]

Do you know where I can get some reliable 10 Gig SFPs? Equivalent to Cisco SFP-10G-LR?
Two of the Cisco's are about $12,000. I'm connecting two data centers across a city and want to
save some budget money if possible without sacrificing reliability if possible.

Wow that's crazy high.

Yes sir check out prolabs.com 10G about $1,200 each. (They don't sell direct) I have some deployed in our network right now.

That's cool to hear your doing some 10G links. You running some Cisco switches on each end? 6500 7000 etc... ?

 

[fred555]

Cisco Nexus 5548's on either end is the plan.
Redundant pair in the main data center now and need to purchase a single switch for the secondary data center.

 

[r10fret]

I have been following this thread from the start since I work in Telecom. Seems like a lot of potential points of failure for going 80 feet away. It reminds me of the old Rube Goldberg machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

 

[Cham]

I like this one better:
hxxps://vimeo.com/10977948

I just use cat6 stp for the main gigabyte runs in the house here... Of course I don't have anything I can use the bandwidth for other than within the LAN, interweb speeds here are less than a MB.