Fibre Optic backbone cabling

My start up company is about to embark on our first structured cabling installation for a small college campus. I have designed the CAT 6 structured cabling system for the main admin block as I have a lot of experience in that. I need help on fibre optic backbone design as I lack experience in this area. This is for the men and women's residence which are 500 and 200 meters away respectively. The application used will be voice, data and video (CCTV). Can someone help me design this fibre optic backbone by providing all the necessary components such as type of fibre, connectors, patch panel, etc. Each location will have a 6RU cabinet, and an 8-port PoE switch to connect the IP phones, network computer, and CCTV. Please help.

leme,

to be honest i'm not sure what you are asking? are you looking for fiber equipment? cable? etc.

If you would like to send cctv i suppose you mean a modulated feed that is sent around the campus? if that is the case you will need some specialized fiber converters for that, nothing difficult but not at all what blackmagic makes. if not modulated then composite, component, sdi? how many lines of video are you sending, hd or sd, how about audio?

if you are planning on sending "cctv" over the network with phones and computer traffic you will also need other specialized equipment which again blackmagic doesn't necessarily make ... you mention this is your first install for a new company ... i don't want to sound condescending but you need some knowledgeable people involved on your team you don't want your first job out to be botched ...

give us some more info to go off of and maybe someone here can help more.

As you are getting paid for it, are you going to pay for the assistance (Not that I'm in a position to know the info) just wondering

I concur with Daniel. As I am fully capable of, and experienced in designing exactly what you need to do, I also get paid for doing exactly that type of work. Even consulting and advising on infrastructure design and implementation typically has a $/rate attached for my services. I spent many years in college and regularly attend certification courses and workshops in my field to advance my expertise of newer technology when it's released. This is expensive to do.

It sounds like you and your start-up company misrepresented your ability to the college of which I suppose you have an installation contract with. That has a way of coming back to bite you, as I'm sure there is another company in your service area/state which is capable of this type of job - That doesn't have the job. If you jump in, not knowing what you're doing, you'll just wind up costing the college way more money than needed to do to job properly.

Fiber isn't copper. Just terminating the ends requires special training. You don't just pull up a diy site, ask some forum questions, slap some gear in a rack and sell it to a college. Depending on the type of fiber alone, the equipment needed to terminate and certify the quality of the ends cost between $3000 and $20,000 (FYI - A typical fiber installers/certification kit costs around $75,000 - to get started. My fusion splicer alone cost me over $18,000). Hence my disdain, but I digress.

Now, my butt-ripping editorial aside... You're starting out in a business venture and are inexperienced. I was also there once. It sounds like you want to learn... But, you don't go to a football game, walk out on the field, and ask the quarterback to tell you how to play the game so you can get paid what he gets paid. That's just bad form.

My advice to you is to hire a fiber installation company to join you in your job. Shadow them. Learn what and how they do it. There are also plenty of white papers out there on different manufacturers websites that offers plenty of insight. If you/your company intends to offer fiber installation services in conjunction with Cat5/6 data, then YOU NEED TRAINING. Educate yourself. Learn from others. Do not ask them to do your job for you.

My start up company is about to embark on our first structured cabling installation for a small college campus. I have designed the CAT 6 structured cabling system for the main admin block as I have a lot of experience in that. I need help on fibre optic backbone design as I lack experience in this area. This is for the men and women's residence which are 500 and 200 meters away respectively. The application used will be voice, data and video (CCTV). Can someone help me design this fibre optic backbone by providing all the necessary components such as type of fibre, connectors, patch panel, etc. Each location will have a 6RU cabinet, and an 8-port PoE switch to connect the IP phones, network computer, and CCTV. Please help.

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