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[Roger Clarke]

At 7:09 +0800 21/8/07, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Moving on from FTTN and FTTH, we get Fibre via the Sewer ...

aka brown fibre?

(And this the day after 'Kenny' was on Denton).

>Garry Wardrope, network services manager at the University of 
>Aberdeen, said: "Making university life as rich as possible for our 
>students is the main aim of everything we do.
>"When embarking on our 'internet to room' project we wanted a 
>cost-effective method that would offer the kind of bandwidth 
>students demand when researching for course projects or writing 
>their dissertations."

This is clearly a pseudo-quote put into a media release by a 
marketing person.  IT services people in universities know what 
students *really* use bandwidth for, and that isn't it.


More seriously, I saw mention recently of someone being in 
negotiation with Vic Railways to use their long strips of land to 
carry fibre.

Again.

That idea was alive back when I ran LAN conferences in the mid-1980s. 
I didn't track its demise, but assume that telecomms de-regulation 
moved too little and too slowly, and/or that rail bureaucracy turned 
out to be an even bigger hurdle than people originally thought.

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