 I just got back from the neighbors and we got the green light! God. $100,000 a year. That's how much they wanted to charge us for a 100 gigabit link between the studio here and the lab. To which I said, excuse me, pardon? I'm gonna run my own cable courtesy of Infinite Cables. How much does this bad boy weigh? Like 100 pounds. And how many fiber optic pairs are inside it? I think it's four pairs, so that's eight fibers total. Conceivably then, we could do hundreds of gigabit per second, assuming we had the switching equipment. Ow! Sorry. That's metal. It's a little stiff because it's actually designed for either direct burial or outdoor applications, and the length of it is a whopping 700 meters. That's over 2,000 feet for my Yankee friends. 2,300. The good news is that this green belt goes all the way between the two buildings. The bad news is that a lot of the green is pretty spiky. So this is gonna be one heck of a ride. And it's brought to you by our sponsor, Smart Deploy. Smart Deploy is now powered by PDQ.com and offers zero touch, zero headache PC management for IT. You can deploy Windows apps and drivers from the cloud with no VPN required, and get your free subscription worth over $500 at smartdeploy.com slash Linus. Just so I understand the plan a little bit better, we've got this braided sleeving here that is covering our terminated fiber optic pairs. These are very fragile. What that means then is we can either pull it by this, which puts all the strain right here, or we can pull it by the armored sheath, but not this part in between. This we need to be careful with because one break and the whole endeavor is wasted. Pretty much. Which would be an extremely sad day because- We can get it re-terminated, but it would still suck. Yeah, unless we don't know where the break was. Yeah. Shout out Infinite Cables, by the way, for sending this thing over. I thought it was gonna be like thousands of dollars worth of cable. What was it, like 700 bucks? It is less than a thousand bucks. Yeah. What? Right? Look at this thing. It looks like it should cost like 10 grand in specialty. I mean, is this the point where we just start going? Checking the invoice here. Have we figured out a point of ingress into our building yet? Yeah. What? We're just gonna put it through the door. This is just for temporary. Through the door? Now, obviously, this kind of a fiber deployment wouldn't be, strictly speaking, official. So we're just trying it as a proof of concept to see what kinds of speeds we can get, and also to demonstrate the benefits of fiber optic cabling over copper. There's absolutely a snowball's chance in hell that you would get any kind of copper signal over this distance at any kind of speed, let alone this speed. Wait, where are you going? Well, I'm going, right? You gotta go in the bush somewhere. Well, yeah, but we're going through the door here, right? So I don't need to go through the bush and then we'd have to backtrack to the door. Sure. All right, here we go. So what, am I just doing this myself? Yes. Here's the thing. The weight of this cable is going to be so great once it's fully deployed that we're going to have to have a team of people, probably positioned every 50 to 100 meters, to help pull it once we reach the final stretch. Okay, this is the back door. I'm assuming we're going in the back door? No, we're going in the... Wait, what? We're the back door boys. Wait, what do you mean you're going in the back door? Like the door end will go in here, right? Yeah, but that's the other... Which means my end needs to start snaking. Yeah, oh yeah. Get on in there, little doggy. Didn't you say you guys cleared this stand? No, were we supposed to? Yes. Are you serious? Are you serious? Some cleared the other end, I believe, but this end should be pretty clear just behind the tree line. Should be pretty clear. Are you even listening to yourself? Yeah, it's behind the tree line. You're just going to crawl through there. It'll be fine. Yeah, don't worry about it. We changed our mind about going into the bushes any sooner than we absolutely have to. Unfortunately, this is the end of the easy path, and there are no shortcuts on the next leg of our journey. This could quite possibly be the dumbest thing we've ever done. Yeah, but it's a ridiculous idea, and I think that makes it amazing. It's one of the best projects I think we've done here. It's like when you're a kid, and you imagined what it would be like to have a tin can stretched all the way to your friend's house so you could talk to. Exactly. This is the high-tech version of that. All right, in we go. Oh, blackberries. This one looks delicious. This is the first hurdle that we found when we walked this. Yeah, it's a fence. It's not really a hurdle. It's a fence. Okay, fine. He's being pedantic. It's a high hurdle. There's going to be a couple more along the way, but this is our first one. Wait, we have to scale this? Can't we just go around? I believe there's more fence. Oh my god, there's a different fence. I'm stuck. Wait a second. Wait, oh, oh. That's going to be a negatory, chief. Okay, so what are we going to do? David is I'm going to leave you here and then you're going to watch me. Bush black my way to you. All right, I'm coming at you. You ready? We're going charging bull style. Going to clear a path. How to get seriously injured. One, oh, no, these jeans have holes. I'm adding holes to my other holes. I got to get low. Oh, God, I'm not wearing a face shield. Yeah. Hi, are we just going to pass it through the fence? What's up? Well, that was exciting. All right, so now the plan is we want to cut these boys as low as possible and get them out of here. That's the secret to Bushwhacking. You don't want to scatter everything around. I actually spent a lot of time doing this stuff for the excellent pay of about two bucks an hour for my parents when I was a teenager. OK, here's the plan. Then you're going to clip it to my butt. So we're going to go right here. Is that is that kosher? Yeah, I think that's going to work. It'll protect it a little more, I guess. OK, yeah, let's do it. And then my goal as I go is going to be to clear you guys about three feet so you can micro trench it. Excuse me, Dan, did you just call me fat? Yes. What? Why? You're very quick, Booty. Oh, quick. I thought you called me fat. I also called you fat. Oh, my God. Look, big booties in fashion, all right? OK, well, that's not so bad. Good job. Are you filming vertically? I am filming vertically. It's a lot easier for the spacer. Alex from logistics is helping us because David can't get back here. OK, you got to go horizontally. You want me to go horizontally? All right. So can I just start walking? Oh, heck yeah. Don't mind me. I'm just laying fiber here. Just laying a big fat fiber right behind myself. I figured we'd give you an update on what actual cable this is while we're pulling here. Now, unlike what we said before, I don't remember. I think I might have said eight pairs. It's actually six total fibers, which means you have three pairs. Each pair is going to have a transmit and receive fiber, and those are going to plug into transceivers on either end. Currently, we're going to be using 100 gig transceivers, and we're going to use two on either end, which are aggregated together to make a 200 gigabit link along this cable. But on this fiber, we could even run three 400 gig transceivers for 1200 gigabit, one 1.2 terabit, which is mind boggling. This is future proofing at its finest. I don't think our video production is ever going to use anywhere near 100 gig, let alone 1200 gig, but we could do it if we want it. Now, inside the sheathing of this cable, it's like a hard plastic, really strong. You're going to find like a corrugated metal layer that's going to be kind of cut resistant. Even if you were to get through this plastic, there's actual metal in there, and it's kind of got a ripple, corrugation like this. And then inside that, there'll be like a pull cord and some like kind of insulation fibery stuff. And then inside all of that, you'll actually see the really small single mode fibers. It kind of feels like a hose. It's got a little bit of like memory because of the steel, but it's really, really strong. We've been reefing on it. David, you want to look down there? Just this run alone is 150 feet. And so wherever Linus is in the bushes, he's been in there for like an hour now. He's probably gotten, you know, maybe another 200 feet. We've got a long way to go. Hello? Hello. Can I help you? No, I'm good. Clearing some of the blackberries back here. You're in the city? No, no, no, but we're running a cable. We have a unit in this building here. Oh, perfect. That a way, my friend. We tried to shock them, but these things grow like weeds. Oh, I know, right? I could see someone was back here not that long ago because some of the big ones are dead. Yeah, we tried to stop it because it encroaches over here like crazy. Well, I'm going to kill some of them. Beauty, man. Awesome. Thanks very much. All right, cool, man. Sup, Dan? Welcome to my party. It's pretty cozy back here. How do you like my path? Horrible. Well, what do you mean? What do you mean horrible? I actually had one of the buddies who lives over here come out and tell me, hey, thanks for clearing some of these blackberries. Oh, what a nice thing for you to- Ow, damn it, for you to do. So how far along am I? I actually have no context for distance here. We're technically in the final stretch now. Shut up. Yeah, so that was the last corner, and now it's straight all the way to HQ2. HQ2 is the lab. That's what logistics calls it because they cannot be our stick to convention. Well, it's changed like six times, Linus. All right, so I just keep going? You just keep going. Okay. Alex at that corner, Jamie and them at the other corner. All right. I'm gonna film you now. Okay. Am I sliced up? You're not too sliced up. Oh, okay, I thought you said that was wrong. No, I made it a selfie. It's all about the technique. If you guys want some bushwhacking tech tips here, even with big, thick gloves like this, if you just grab onto these things, you are gonna get your hands sliced up. Something nasty, but you can see mine are fine. And the reason for that is that it's all about the grabbing technique. You've been watching me on my chest cam just grabbing these things, but you gotta grab with like a brushing motion because it breaks off the tips of all the ones where your hands are. And then you just move these buddies around. A little something like that. No damage to the meat paws. How's the radius on the back of the fiber? It looks fine right now. Yeah, okay. It's like playing a VR game except the tether costs $700. If you break it, you can't really turn around. All right, I'm coming through. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. I'm much taller than you. Ow. How far you reckon we are? Well, we got a bit of a... There's a bit of a gap in the buildings now. Uh-huh. So I think that means that we've only got maybe three more to go. Only? And the last one's ours. Only three more buildings? Yeah. Well, they're all connected together. Come on. Linus, I was wrong. What? I was wrong. What? You wrong? Never. I think we're only at lab one. We're all at... What? Yeah, we've made it... How much farther is it? We've only made it like two buildings. So we have another four, five, six, seven buildings to go, I think. Seven? Roughly. And these are the small ones. They turn into warehouses soon like ours. All right, cool. This is neat. Let's check this out. I haven't done anything here. Oh, it's beautiful. Not bad, right? No. So all we gotta do is give it a little... Oh, my neck. Not gonna lie, we're running out of steam a little bit here, boys. Do you want a tag team? Serge is gonna be back with the lead backer. I got this. All right. I'm not gonna give up now. Linus is taking this all on himself. In the wilds of Langley, BC, Canada, we have a Linus Sebastian in its native habitat. We're gonna need some backup here. Look at the density of this. Hey, Serge! What are they? Hey! All right, Serge is here. We got... The cavalry is here. Is that working? Give it a... No, no, just chuck it up and over. Up and over. Oh, God! Another one. I'm ready, sir. Stop! Halfway along the final stretch, you say. It might be a little bit more than that, actually. Doesn't feel like much of a halfway point. Honestly, I wish we were back to the blambles at this point because these dead bits of tree are so dense and some of the branches are so thick. I don't even think I could cut them with this. It's gonna be extremely slow going from here. I'm stepping out into the light. Sup, David? 100 meters? Oh, you're close, Linus. It's only a freaking Olympic sprint race away. They're coming. They're coming, Linus. What the hell? Oh, ****. How'd you find the easy way? I crawled through all that. What? Oh, it's like this for like two kilometers. Shut up. It's not for two kilometers. They didn't even go two kilometers. Oh, OK. Sup, YouTube? Oh, my... Oh. Oh, I got myself pretty good there. Whoops. Yeah, your neck's... Don't look at your neck. Oh, yeah. Battle scars. All good. You should have brought a helmet. It's actually made a big difference. I should have brought a helmet. I'm in a lot of pain right now. Oh, hi, David. What's up? I don't know if they want me pulling the cable or not, but I'm... I'm pulling it. I found a path. Do you know what I'm supposed to be doing right now? Wait, nobody's pulling cable anymore? How long... When did everybody go back to the office? David, they're done. They're out. They're gone for the day. Are you kidding me? Yeah, we're just... Nobody told me. Why? So we're just standing here like idiots. No, no, it didn't come from me. All right. See you later. Oh, my goodness. This shirt is not dark green, David. Oh. I am freaking drenched. Yeah, that's the color. That's the dry spot. Okay, so it's not super breathable, but look at this. Hey. You guys saw what I was doing in those bushes. This is what the unprotected parts of me look like. Oh, my gosh. Holy cow. Wow. Workshop jacket, lttstore.com. And we're here. Okay, I staged the whole being in the bush thing. I showed you guys. It was like a clear shot over here from where we left off, but that's okay. I didn't really want to go in and start bushwhacking again anyway. This is it. We're through the door. Lab two. Where are we testing this? Keep going. Keep going. Okay. Keep going. The switch is over here. Well, I don't. Yeah, that's why I asked you where I'm going. I asked you where I'm going. You say keep going. I go, and you tell me I went too far. This is exactly what I'm talking about. I didn't hear you. Bulls**t, you didn't hear me. Why would you say keep going if you didn't hear me? One thing I got to say is this experience has given me a whole new level of respect for the crews that run these fiber lines all over our cities. Like, shout out. You guys are doing the Lord's work because it is not easy. It's heavy and cumbersome. That was only part of the journey. We still don't know if the cable even works. But first, we're going to show you guys the switching equipment that we're going to be using to get our 200 gigabits. So we're going to start with the 200 gigabit link between the two buildings. You know we could do 300, right? What, really? We could do three. I mean, there's three pairs. I'm super down. I only bought optics for two. Okay, 200 gigabit link. This right here is the Microtik CRS504-4XQ-IN. And pretty much that's all it does. Four 100 gigabit ports, and then you got your management port, and that's it. Oh, oh, hold on, hold on. Dual redundant power supplies. That's a ghost power. It can also be PoE powered. It can also be powered by DC power if you want. Shut up. You see PoE power? Yeah. This switch only draws 25 watts max without optics. 25 watts. And it has four 100 gigabit links? Yeah. Purpose-built hardware, baby. How much is this bad boy? Guess. Two grand. 800 bucks. Shut up. Yeah. I've seen them on sale for seven, too. Do you know what I would have given for this when we started this company? Yeah. Like, parts of my soul. All right. Actually, we haven't even talked about our optics. Shout out FS.com, by the way. These guys have basically made fiber optic networking affordable and accessible to normal people. Like, it's intercompatible with all this different gear. You don't have to pretty much worry about proprietary, oh, it doesn't work with this one. You can go on their website and pick any manufacturer you want. And there's actually a box you can get to plug these transceivers in and reprogram them on the fly. That is so cool. Yeah. These ones are going to be two kilometer range. Our run is about 700 meters currently. We add a little bit on the ends and maybe we're at like 800 meters. These might be too powerful. So we're going to have to use a fiber optic power meter to see what kind of output these are doing. Because if you have too much power, you can burn out either end. More is not necessarily better. You got to remember, guys, these are lasers and these are high-tech. These are highly sensitive receivers on either side. You don't want to go using like a 40 kilometer transceiver on a two kilometer run. Now, you won't do that because they're expensive. But this is the minimum we could get while still hitting our range requirements. Now, can we get something that will tone her down a little bit? Yeah, it's called an attenuator. Beautiful. So it just goes in line. But we'll worry about that for later. It'll be fine to run just to test. OK. Where did we leave the cable on this side? Oh, it's just sitting outside. I've been back here for a while. I'm just just chilling out there. I was busy going through the way. Wait, it's just outside? Yeah. Jake. What? We just left it outside. It's been two days. What else are we going to do? I don't know. Worst comes to worst, somebody broke it. Oh, look, it's still there. Wow. What the hell, dude? It's just literally just tossed in the bushes. Yeah. So? Whatever. I guess it's a temporary install. Now, the question is, do we want to run this inside or do we just patch it here? I think we can run it inside. Just roll the spool. Yeah, we'll roll this monster. I got a tattoo. Let's do it. Let's do it. Oh, boy. This is what we call a Canadian wheel. You just carry it. Where are we going? To the server room, you know? Server room? Yeah. Well, because we want to hook it up to the rest of the stuff, right? I guess so. It's water, Mark. It's a series of... No, don't take off that side. Don't take off that side. Why not? Because we still need to pull it through stuff, maybe. No, we don't. We're going to go right there. Not, I mean, later. Oh, oh. Take off the other side. Yeah, here. Just let go. Oh, my God. There you go. Oh, my God. Oh, you just whacked it. Oh, it's fine. This stuff is like indestructible glass. It's like corning glass. You remember what we did to those? Is this corning glass? Yeah. But is it like the very good kind? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you're making this up. It is corning glass. Well, yeah, I know, but corning makes like durable ones and they make like high performance ones. I suspect this is high performance. It's... Whatever you're about to say, you're pulling out of your ass. So there's no point in even saying it. I don't want to hear it. Okay, let's go. We should definitely pay attention to which ones we're using. And then we got our... Make sure we plug in the same ones on the other side. Well, one though, real quick. So we got LC1A, LC1B, and LC2A and 2B, all right? It's plugged into our 100 gig Dell switch. So we've got connectivity. To the rest of the machines on our network and all that. I'd like to just take a brief moment and clarify that we would never recommend doing something like this for any kind of long-term deployment. This is just a meme. Like it's just for the jokes. We wanted to see if we could do it. And the cable was shockingly affordable. So we were like, oh my God, could this be done? We needed to film in one of our neighbors' fenced off yards. BC Plant Healthcare. They do like arborist work and a variety of other things. They will throw their website up here. So I had to knock on their door and say, hey, here's a weird thing we're doing. Hilarious. I walked through the door and one of their workers is like, sup Linus. I guess you're here asking about that fiber run you guys were planning. I watched WAN show. And I'm like, don't worry. I already primed my boss on it. You know what they asked for? Screwdrivers and backpacks for all their techs. And I was like, you know what? No problem. We got you. All right. All right. We ready? Yeah. It looks like it's blinky blinking. So it's at least connected on this side. Oh, that's not good. Something I'm finding a little bit confusing, Jake, is... Oh, no, this is not a fourth fiber pair. No, it's the pull cord. Oh. It's just wrapped around here and taped and stuff. Okay. And then this guy right here is just what? Like a stiffening rod down the middle? Might just be stuck in here. Yeah. Does it actually go down the middle? Yeah, it goes down the middle. I want to plug it in. I'm plugging it in. All right. Plug it in. It's taking too long. Oh, my God. Holy s***. Did it work? Look at that. Oh, man. I'm just worried it would be broken. You see a hundred gig right there? Just like that, hey? It just works. Activity and everything. Okay. Let's try pair two. Okay. No way. Not only if we were able to leave something like this deployed, not only could we spend zero dollars per month to maintain it, but we could actually have double the link speed of what we were quoted. You know, with this fiber, we could do three times 400 gig. We could do 1.2 terabit. We stole this computer from the keyboard testing robot. Look at this monitor go. Okay. We're good. We're good. This Ubiquiti switch has, oh, here we go. 25 gigabit up links right here. To connect these switches then, we're going to take our QSFP28 port, and we're going to use a breakout cable that goes to four SFP28 ports. The Q is for quad. So this will do a hundred gig. And these SFP28 will do 25 gigabit. The problem is we don't have that cable, but thankfully, oh, perfect timing. Thanks, Dan. And thanks, fs.com. Yeah. This is the thing I was talking about. One of these to four of those. Neat, right? Plugging into our 10 gig card. I know 10 gig isn't a hundred gig, but realistically with Windows File Explorer, we're not going to be getting more than that speed to a single client anyway. The reason that we would need a link speed this fat would be because there's going to be anywhere from 20 to 30 people working out of this building right from day one. I don't know what the password is though. I guessed it. I hacked the mainframe. Hello again, Manjaro. It's been a while. That's fast internet. Look at that. It's snappy. It's a hundred. Do a speed test. Definitely won't be a hundred meg. Yeah. Okay. So that's, that's a hundred megabit per second. Hell yeah, brother. Okay. So wait, why are we using the management port? Because it's not making a link to that switch. A lot of the times when you're breaking up a hundred gig, you have to go in and explicitly tell it. You can break up into 425 gig lane. So we got to check the switch and see. All right. It's detecting the cable and it's gone. Yeah. I was trying a transceiver. That's not necessarily micro tick compatible earlier. And it was exhibiting the same behavior. Okay. So we'll try the other transceiver and then see how it goes. Well, this isn't a transceiver. This is a cable. It's like a direct to touch cable. Oh shoot. So this, this splitter. Oh, it doesn't, it doesn't like the splitter. Man, I love these like beefy freaking cables here. You just need a couple of conductors to do a hundred gig. These are copper. That's why they're so thick. The other, the fiber one, the reason that's so thick is just from all the armor and protection on it. Yeah. The actual fiber in there is like so small. You can barely see it. Do we have a fan anywhere? Oh, isn't there a bunch of Noctua fans? Cause this will get hot. Oh, freaking A. All right. Uh, yeah. One moment please. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any cooling fans here and it's a long walk back to the office, but we did find this leaf blower. You're not going to actually don't blow it at me, please. Oh yeah. Do you mind Dan? I mean, do you deny that it will keep that network card cool? As long as you don't blow it at me or in my ear. I wouldn't blow it at you. Oh, that is pretty hot. Okay. One sec. Let's give her a little, uh, it's cool. Look, Jake, it's barely warm to the touch now. It's almost like fans, cool things. Oh yeah. Here we go. Some things changed. Uh, we're on windows now. We've got a connect X six card instead of a connect X four. And are we connect Xing right now? Let's see. Let's see. We're connect Xed. This should be a hundred gig. Show me the hundred gig. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Woo! All right. Oh, that's freaking amazing. Speed test. Okay. I mean, yeah, yeah. First things first. We just got to do like, like, like internet speed tests. Woo! Obviously this isn't our full 10 gig internet speed, but there just aren't speed test servers that are fast enough for us to get that full speed. Anyway, this is all urban fiber had. They did their best. Now let's go ahead and why don't we just do like a file transfer, I guess, right? We're using a SATA SSD. I was like, oh, why is this speed so unimpressive? I'm only getting 600 megabytes a second. Megabytes a second. Because my local storage operates at like less than a tenth the speed of my network connection. Yeah. So it went from 700 all the way down to three. This poor SSD. Crap. This system is like at 100% utilization. It's wrapping the bed. Task manager won't even open. It's like when your SSD is at 100% utilization though. Yeah. Are you ready? I'm ready. This is RAM disk to server. So we're about to see the limit of Windows file transfer. You should bring up. Whoa, let's go. 1.6. Hit 1.7 for a second. Oh, gigabytes a second. Okay, here, let's do something more exciting. How about this? Well, an excessive 10 gigabit. Even if we had a 10 gigabit internet connection. That's well. Holy crap. We're at 44, 45 gigabits per second. This is incredible. Incredible. Like this segue to our sponsor. FreshBooks. FreshBooks is an easy to use accounting software that helps you do your business. Impress clients with professional looking invoices that detail the work you've done. Use automated payment reminders if invoices get passed due and easily track expenses and use their time tracker to log every minute of billable hours. So you don't have to think about it later. Keep everyone on the same page with their projects feature which makes it easy for clients, team, and contractors to collaborate, share files, and leave useful comments. FreshBooks has your back at tax time too. 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