Re: [Nolug] Fibre and telephone poles...

If it is line of sight, then why not set up 2 high speed wireless
ap's/bridges? What type of bandwidth do you require b/w buildings?

Brett

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 07:22:58 -0600 (CST), "-ray" <ray@ops.selu.edu> said:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jeremy (mailing list account) wrote:
>
> > 1. Who are some GOOD contractors in the area that can pull this sort of thing
> > off with respect to installation (including termination) and providing cable?
>
> You may check with a local ISP that has a fiber termination kit. I
> would think any GOOD fiber contractor may not want to mess with such a
> small job.
>
> > 2. Who do we need to contact about getting pole space? And, if known,
> > what's the current rate for leasing pole space?
>
> Good luck with that. We inquired about that a few years ago to run some
> fiber between the University and the city building in downtown Hammond
> for
> disaster recovery. It seems Entergy and Bellsouth lease/sell/buy the
> poles from each other every few years in some complicated tax writeoff
> scheme. They wouldn't even entertain leasing some pole space to the city
> of Hammond (and why should they when Bell could lease their own fiber to
> us). Somehow Cox and Charter are in on the deal. When we inquired about
> that, no one would tell us. So we kind of gave up the idea. Let me know
> if you have better luck than we did with the poles.
>
> We then thought about trenching it... well dont even think about getting
> anywhere near any railroad tracks with a boaring machine. That takes an
> act of congress.
>
> ray
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