Passive DWDM and XGS\GPON. How large is our fiber network today? 

Oh I take out all my frustration on Kirk behind the scenes!

Thanks for sticking around from the beginning!

Dang man that is really awesome. I think the hardest thing for me in the beginning was finding all the tools. Everyone wants to sell you all this nonsense when you can actually pull it off really nicely on the cheap!

Thanks for hanging out yeah it's just so much and before you realize it's so big you can't stop

Thanks for following the story almost makes it more fun to share

I am pretty confident you can. Once you have a base of operations and 3 customers the next 3 just become so much easier.

Thanks for watching buddy and the help from time to time too!

Your not the first person that I've heard that from. If our population is 50,000 and you only buy a mattress every 3-5 years that math makes no sense unless the markup is like 90%

I’m also curious about the mapping software.

Ah that is so cool to hear. Especially if you can open up what the sub did you can so easily replicate it and most likely find more efficient ways to do it vs per splice charges. Thanks for hanging out.

also make sure to keep asking for ipv4 address from arin, seems like you are growing alot! :)

@@RealTkco Yup i'm on the waiting list for a /22 now so in 2027 i'll revisit this comment LOL

You are looking at the most important tool right here google maps ties into a lot of other spreadsheets etc.

BIDI is what you typically see in a single fiber point to point SFPs for like $30 at FS. They typically run like 1310\1490 opposite 1490\1310 or a few other varieties. This is very similar but uses a single fiber passive and highly tuned to a specific nm of light. So you will not see 1550 instead you see 1550.36 and 1549.17 etc. This just makes the optics pretty expensive $30 is now $700 for a tuned optic or $1500 for a reprogrammable one.

I was thinking that too

Running into it more and more with remote workers, and we are picking up school systems, and multi site businesses more and more. Even if it's 0.5% of traffic just gearing up for expansion by adding our network reach to 12,000 customers "on net"

@@briceperdue7587 Ah, fair then. Yeah, guess it doesn't hurt and is not very expensive in hardware to get the peering up.

There simply isn't enough wireless spectrum to go around especially somewhere as densely populated as the eastern seaboard. Even if there were, raising symbol rates, expanding modulations, and raising frequencies just gets exponentially harder the further you go and the links become more delicate. It's hard enough getting 10 gig down a sealed glass tube, the air is full of water that falls through it, trees that grow up into it, and wind that grants no mercy to antennas.

I’ll stick with fiber. Fixed wireless serves a purpose in some situations.

@@nicksolinsky2311 90% of the population even in his area can't get fiber - everybody would prefer fiber but it would help the business to get more people online - volume - there is plenty of spectrum - everybody has a phone for god's sake, wireless is basically tried and tested, no need to reinvent the wheel plus there is unregulated white space which offers low mhz and long range #wran #802.22

We are super not dense here there is a time and place for wireless but it typically leads to unhappy customers.

100% it has some situations where it's perfect.