[c-nsp] Fiber

[Mark Tinka]

On Friday 13 November 2009 12:12:47 am madunix wrote:

> am just trying to take advantage of using light
> technologies in LAN for our new building, due to long
> distance between the offices over 90m, i know fiber is
> fast expensive and copper gigabit still far cheaper, and
> fiber to desktop isn't required for a majority of
> applications.

If the cost of deploying a fibre-based LAN (in terms of 
fibre spools, optics, CPE/converters, NIC's, maintenance, 
e.t.c.) outweighs the cost of doing a FTTB (Basement) and 
feeding trunk fibre pairs up to strategically-positioned 
copper-based Ethernet switches where you're not having to 
worry about cable distance to users, then you have your 
answer.

Else, you'd need to make the hard choices :-).

And don't just look at capex. Consider opex too (both 
financial and otherwise).

Cheers,

Mark.
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