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

This is how far we have all come in 3 years. If you start back on some of our first fiber videos you can almost follow the story from the first 10 customers in 1 building, or the first horizontal drill, to now with pushing 1000 customers in 4 counties in MD.
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Thanks all of you for watching!

[@stellated]

Your nonchalant attitude and openness make it seem so easy. Only 3 years!? Keep up the good work, man.

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@bcm50]

Congratulations on your networks growth. Supper thrilled you and your company are behind it. Wish I lived there lol

[@briceperdue7587]

Thanks for sticking around from the beginning!

[@Fogga70]

This was a nice summary for the journey you've been showing us the last year, and some. But if you didn't know, you've also been a good teacher on how fibre works, and how to splice. You've given me the guts to replace all cat5 to edge switces in my house with fibre. I got me the same splicer you got, a roll of fibre (4 strand for indoor use), and went to work. Now 4 months later my house is 10G wirespeed, all over fibre. Thank you very much.

[@briceperdue7587]

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!

[@NutkeyDoesMinecraft]

Networking is so cool

[@Nevexo287]

This is excellent, and incredible amount of work done in just 3 years! Thanks for bringing us on the journey!

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@mrrosslwilliams]

This was so interesting, to take a high-level look at all the bits we have seen you working on. Thanks for sharing!

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@Venix91]

Love this stuff

[@GotWire]

love the video man! I wish i could do something like this in my area! Congrats and the growth to!

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@ZippyDooDa435]

This was super cool, nice to get the idea of where and how the network is growing!

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@nicksolinsky2311]

Love the vids brother. You inspired me to get my own splicer and start laying my own fiber at work instead of subbing it out

[@briceperdue7587]

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.

[@timramich]

I would imagine most of the mattress stores are fronts.

[@briceperdue7587]

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%

[@BradMottram]

What software package are you using for the Mapping with all your Boxes and Fibre Routes?

[@vaprotan]

I’m also curious about the mapping software.

[@RealTkco]

I thought you were only in 1 city in maryland, your huge! congrats man!

[@RealTkco]

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

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@Dekay916]

Thanks so much for sharing this with us Brice. It’s super interesting to see how the network grows over time! What software are you using to document this info?

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@mp45code]

Damn big thing, nige done! Can you give a little bit more insight on your WDM system? Sa all seem to be Bidi by FS, maybe you can explain that a little bit more in detail?

[@briceperdue7587]

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.

[@hariranormal5584]

Also that local traffic, ya sure about it? I thought most of your clients are just eyeballs, so they really wouldn't need to reach each other but just the "internet"

[@ZippyDooDa435]

I was thinking that too

[@briceperdue7587]

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"

[@hariranormal5584]

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

[@shephusted2714]

wireless looks like it could be a good way to cover much more territory - fiber is so damn limited and wireless will keep getting better - it has more potential in my view if you want to grow customer base but of course everything is regulated, massive amount of overhead and paperwork involved, thankfully there are weekends, you should try some pilot projects, have customers who have repeaters or finagle some ways to extend coverage and speed - kimpossible

[@stellated]

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.

[@nicksolinsky2311]

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

[@shephusted2714]

@@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

[@briceperdue7587]

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

[@briceperdue7587]

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