[geeks] Cat6 between buildings and grime proofing?

[Andrew Jones]

A 100 meter "patch" cable is a few hundred bucks.

Terminating your own fiber really sucks and the tools are not cheap.  I 
have done it once, under supervision.  Once was enough.

For perspective, I've had datacenter providers who found it more cost 
effective to keep stacks of 10-20-50-100-150-200 meter cables than to 
train people to terminate fiber on demand.

On 06/13/2013 12:09 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Curious about the cost of a fiber run like that - what would it cost to run
> several hundred feet of fiber?
>
> Curious about cost of raw fiber, how to terminate fiber, cost of fiber to
> RJ45 conversion box?
>
> I go into minor shock looking at the cost of terminated fiber patch cables,
> and I can't imagine a 400 foot run costs 100x more than a 1 meter patch
> cable...
>
> Can anyone provide some insight into the actual cost of, say, a hundred
> meter fiber run?
>
> Lionel