Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms

[Shawn L via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

This one is always a bit tricky. 
 
For example, if you have an apartment building with say 8 apartments, the provider can install a larger MDU in a 
centralized location and potentially utilized existing internal cabling in the building to get to each apartment that 
would like service.  It's a fairly quick and easy install.  Though someone (building owner usually) has to provide the 
power for the MDU.
 
In the same building, if you cannot install a large MDU somewhere, the provider needs to figure out how to get a fiber 
to each apartment that wants service.  In most cases it's a pain.  In others, it's not possible or prohibitively 
expensive.  The customer doesn't want to pay that much for installation, because they only rent an apartment and could 
move out at any time.  The building owner doesn't want to pay it either.
 
In most cases, the owner is willing to provide a little power to be able to say "apartments in my building all have 
fiber Internet".  And potentially charge a little more in the rent.
 
Shawn


-----Original Message-----
From: "Grant Taylor via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 1:01pm
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms



On 9/22/21 10:45 AM, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE wrote:
> Half-penny pinching “mah powah” landlords are especially annoying in a 
> cosmic sense

I know someone who had a bit of a different experience.

Someone, purportedly the telco but I'm not sure who, had telco equipment 
in a building and the batteries hadn't been serviced in the better part 
of a decade and there was a strong smell of battery acid in the room.

I heard that building management put a hard line of something like 36 
hours for the equipment owner to address the problem, or at least 
respond with an acceptable time line, lest the building electrician 
would remove the batteries as a health and safety concern.

The equipment owner materialized and removed the batteries within 72 
hours. The bulk of the equipment was removed the following month.



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