Subject: [LINK] Considering Fibre to the Home

[Tom Worthington]

At 09:13 PM 11/05/2007, George Bray wrote:
>... Can VDSL be used on the existing copper network lengths?... 
>can't really think
>of anyone better to ask :)

Ask Robin Eckermann, the ex-Transact architect, now a professor at 
University of Canberra 
<http://www.infoage.idg.com.au/index.php/id;213397261;fp;4;fpid;71937704>.

By the way, it seems odd that the debate is only between old copper 
telephone wire and new fibre optic cable. Why not new copper cable? 
This would remove the need for modems at each end. As I recall 
Transact had outdoor cable rated to Cat5e made for it to string from 
electricity poles down Canberra backyards.

In Samoa, they used ordinary indoor Cat5 cable on poles in the main 
street <http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/emuseums/>. But it only lasts a 
few years in the tropical environment.



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