Big fiber optic shortage

[spidey07]

What's going on? Anixter rep just told me the lead time for fiber is 12-16 weeks. Anything happen to Corning or the other guys?

 

[Albatross]

Wasn't Google building some huge high speed network in the USA?

 

[xanis]

Wasn't Google building some huge high speed network in the USA?

That was the plan. Don't think it got any traction though... I haven't heard about anything happening with it in a long time.

Link

 

[SphinxnihpS]

What's going on? Anixter rep just told me the lead time for fiber is 12-16 weeks. Anything happen to Corning or the other guys?

Try calling the manufacturer instead of the... I don't know what Anixter does, honestly nothing IMO (facilitator?).

I think of them as Brian Doyle Murray in Office Space. "I'm a people person! What is wrong with you people!?!?!"

 

[Kadarin]

Artificial shortage?

 

[spidey07]

Artificial shortage?

Left Corning rep a message. Google is bring up hints of raw material shortages from japan earthquake that are just now starting to have an impact.

 

[wirednuts]

no doubt the japan quakes did hurt glass production, and i think they produced the most... but i thought corning could ramp up production enough to meet demand, it was the fact that they would do so with a heavy price premium that made it a bad outlook.

anixter is a distribution company. a very large one. we use them

 

[Texashiker]

Wasn't Google building some huge high speed network in the USA?

Yes, but that was with dark fiber (fiber buried that was not being used).

When the fiber craze hit over a decade ago, phone companies buried more fiber then they needed. As technology improved, companies needed even less fiber.

This left thousands of miles of buried fiber that were not being used - so google bought it.

 

[spidey07]

no doubt the japan quakes did hurt glass production, and i think they produced the most... but i thought corning could ramp up production enough to meet demand, it was the fact that they would do so with a heavy price premium that made it a bad outlook.

anixter is a distribution company. a very large one. we use them

Yeah, more googling says the "preforms" mainly come from japan and that has been causing the trouble.

 

[Exterous]

Left Corning rep a message. Google is bring up hints of raw material shortages from japan earthquake that are just now starting to have an impact.

Thats what I have heard as well

no doubt the japan quakes did hurt glass production, and i think they produced the most... but i thought corning could ramp up production enough to meet demand, it was the fact that they would do so with a heavy price premium that made it a bad outlook.

I think there were concerns about quality and time - mainly that by the time they could make a product that was comparable in terms of quality the shortage was expected to be over

 

[BillGates]

I have some quality custom fiber manufacturing contacts that I use for my job - great prices and fast turnaround - PM me if you need anything.

 

[zinfamous]

Next is milk.


then the oil.


Dave was right!!??

 

[Phokus]

Whelp, Guess that gives Comcast an excuse to charge everyone $100 a month for 15 meg cable (40 gig cap), right Spidey?

 

[zinfamous]

Try calling the manufacturer instead of the... I don't know what Anixter does, honestly nothing IMO (facilitator?).

I think of them as Brian Doyle Murray in Office Space. "I'm a people person! What is wrong with you people!?!?!"

that's not Brian Doyle Murray.

:hmm:

 

[AMDMaddness]

Its at&t doing fiber back haul to all of their cell sites. Basically AT&T is adding Ethernet to all of the 3g cell sites in the US in a mad dash rush. I work for AT&T.. just saying...if you saw all the crews you would know why.

 

[spidey07]

Its at&t doing fiber back haul to all of their cell sites. Basically AT&T is adding Ethernet to all of the 3g cell sites in the US in a mad dash rush. I work for AT&T.. just saying...if you saw all the crews you would know why.

True ethernet framing and not sonet/TDM based stuff? Makes sense, cheaper.

 

[AMDMaddness]

True Ethernet starting with 100mbps circuits with the instant capability to hit 1gbps. We are using Cisco SIADs ... pretty nice set up but now instead of having around 10 t-1's on a 3g site we will have just one circuit. I know fiber is dependable but a UMTS site will run on only one t-1 so there is redundancy but soon there wont be.

 

[Specop 007]

What's going on? Anixter rep just told me the lead time for fiber is 12-16 weeks. Anything happen to Corning or the other guys?

Quake in Japan. One area along the coast that was hit provided something like 60 or 70% of the worlds fiber.

We have our rolls already in the warehouse and forecasting was in so we should be good.

 

[MiniDoom]

try occ fiber.

 

[SagaLore]

Meh, fiber optic is so old school. You should switch to the new room temperature semiconducting ballistic ceramic composite hydrogenated carbon nano fibers.

 

[spidey07]

Meh, fiber optic is so old school. You should switch to the new room temperature semiconducting ballistic ceramic composite hydrogenated carbon nano fibers.

Not good for long distance. I'll stick with fiber.

 

[God Mode]

Can you use a bunch of parallel fishing lines wrapped in electric tape? Find some striking verizon workers to 'procure' some for you at a nominal fee.