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Since you have experience with WISP, I’m personally curious, for communities that are poor, but have low labor costs at certain points of the year, would a fibe
by ryacko 8y ago
Since you have experience with WISP, I’m personally curious, for communities that are poor, but have low labor costs at certain points of the year, would a fiber backbone be viable?
I mean if labor for wiring was free, and you only have to pay for equipment and to configure the equipment, would it be worth it?
Although I think the communities would be grateful for just 200 kilobyte/s reliable internet on sunny days.
- walrus01 8y agoDefine "poor"? The lowest cost per km for FTTH (whether GPON based or active-ethernet) is 100% aerial on wood utility poles. Or in a developing nation environment, on the low rise height steel lattice tower utility poles that are used for the last mile electrical grid in cities like Lahore or Dhaka. If I had a literally unlimited supply of labor to dig trenches and install cable, sure i could do underground FTTH at low cost. But manual labor to do cut and cover trenching, even with direct burial fiber, is going to be REALLY slow. What scale/size of project are you imagining?
- ryacko 8y agoIdeally all the unemployed males during the dry season would volunteer for the sake of their community. So maybe a few dozen men running fiber in a region where power is provided by local generators, solar panels, and fuel oil trucks. So, the infrastructure isn’t even there, and the central government doesn’t care about any road side construction.