[LINK] How far the fibre?

[Richard Chirgwin]

Hmm ... okay, you got me there. Will have to give this some thought ...

RC

David Boxall wrote:
> Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> <snip>I don't know whether what passes you is fibre serving 
>> exchanges, or fibre serving long-haul trunk routes. If it's the 
>> long-haul between Sydney and Brisbane, then it stops at exchanges in 
>> major centres for add-drop, not at every possible place along the 
>> way. All the long-hauls pass through towns, but not all the towns get 
>> drop-off points (and this is not just a Telstra quirk, take a look at 
>> any national-scale fibre map).
> <snip>
>
> Neither.
>
> The fibre runs to a nearby pit and stops.  Fibre was laid alongside 
> copper, but only the copper is in use - the fibre's dark and not 
> connected to anything, as far as I can tell.  My place is on the way 
> to nowhere.
>
> Those who were in a position to see told me that the machines ploughed 
> in both cables at once.  In some places the cables were laid 
> side-by-side in open trenches.  I was working and in no position to 
> observe much of what went on.  All I saw was machines with twin reels 
> of cable - one of black and one of blue.  I saw reels of spare cable - 
> both black and blue - by the roadside.  The blue, I'm told, was most 
> likely fibre: the other, copper.  Yet the best service Telstra offers 
> me is ISDN.
>