Raven1275
join:2001-03-10
Island Pond, VT
| Dark fiber - recurring charges
Hi All,
I am attempting to research pricing for the lease of dark fiber circuits. We are considering both rental of existing fiber and also building some of our own which could potentially be sub leased. It has been difficult so far trying to get access to pricing information, so if any of you folks happen to use or lease these types of connections, I would truly appreciate some input on what to expect and what to charge.
Thanks... |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
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| You are asking a really broad question to which you will get a really broad answer.
Long Haul fiber?
Metro Fiber?
How many Miles?
What market?
What speed?
Ring or no Ring?
There are many variables involved unless you like apples to oranges comparisons. |
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joshg409
join:2005-05-03
Ottumwa, IA
| reply to Raven1275
We have a provider in a neighboring town that provides dark fiber. We have one or our clients using the dark fiber which is basically a cross town link with two endpoints. Single Mode Single Fiber, we provide the transceivers. The client pays $200/mo we have two transition networks transceivers running gigabit. |
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EMC_guy
join:2007-10-13
Sharbot Lake, ON
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| reply to Raven1275
said by Raven1275  :building some of our own which could potentially be sub leased. A forum member has some experience in building dark fiber networks overseas - I will ask him to elaborate on the technical aspects. Anyway we briefly explored feasibility of a private fiber run to the nearest town (Perth, ON) which has existing fiber PoP. Essentially you have to string "hybrid aerial" fiber that comes from China on existing and new poles.
The material and labour costs are reasonable BUT ... you have to negotiate per-pole rental fees with a whole bunch of farmers and rural municipalities. That will determine your recurring cost for the dark fiber run - the rest will be the bandwidth cost at the source where you connect - if they allow you to connect!
I am not familiar with your Island Pond, VT location but there is a massive capacity fiber run going through Burlington to Montreal. |
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Raven1275
join:2001-03-10
Island Pond, VT
| reply to battleop
Thanks for the input guys. This is very helpful.
What we are looking at is getting two strands of fiber dropped to our pop. We will provide the electronics at the endpoints. Total distance is about 40 miles passing 3 rural villages. As for speed, I am assuming that will be dependant on what we choose for electronics. This is strictly a point to point fiber connection, no ring, no electronics and no bandwidth.
The broad questions are simply from lack of experience in the use of fiber connections. We are hoping the fiber is a better alternative to high capacity licensed backhaul radios and will be affordable. |
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keefe007
Premium
join:2004-02-24
Germantown, WI | reply to Raven1275
Dark fiber isn't cheap at all. I'd estimate you'd be looking at anywhere from $5000 a month to $XX,XXX a month for that. |
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Rhaas
join:2005-12-19
Bernie, MO
| reply to Raven1275
40Mi is a pretty good stretch on a single shot (very doable though). One catch though without know their network is if you happen to be mid-span and they by chance are doing any multiplexing/regeneration/amplification they may not have an unlit end-to-end fiber. We ran into this situation, we have redundant OC-12 connections (4-fibers)into each end of our network (50mi's apart) from the a company and we wanted to shoot our own light across a pair of the fibers we were utilizing. We found out that they were multiplexing the run and therefore there wasn't a true/unbroken fiber end to end. We ended up just purchasing a ptp ds3 to interconnect the 2 ends.. |
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Raven1275
join:2001-03-10
Island Pond, VT | This is a new install with 144 strands. None have been lit yet, so we will have full use of the fibers. What are your recurring charges on the 50 mile run? |
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switchman
join:1999-11-06
Grand Prairie, TX
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Raven1275
said by Raven1275 :This is a new install with 144 strands. Make sure you ask them for a copy of the fiber "characterization" for both 1310nm and 1550. Make sure you get both loss per kilometer and dispersion. With that said, a 80km GigE (ZX) for your data box should make it with no problem with plenty of margin, assuming that the 40 mile is actual fiber distances. |
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