And if he had such a system, he would likely know what his precise requirements are, or the people doing the installations would know. They seem to be leaving it up to him, which indicates to me that the fiber needs are likely minimal.
If 12 fibers is only a little more expensive than 6--and you could get away with only terminating half of them--then you might as well run 12. But I'm trying to spend as little money as possible.
You would be surprised. I'm a control engineer, my networking knowledge is limited to what I have learnt while installing control systems, yet I've been asked to design large scale fibre networks, the logic being that since the network would connect my control architecture together, obviously I would know what is required. It is similar in IT, managers just assume that computer people know all this stuff. It is amazing on large scale projects how much money can be wasted because for some reason nobody thinks to actually engage a specialist in different required disciplines.
