[LINK] fibre distance issues?

[Jan Whitaker]

At 07:32 PM 24/10/2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>"The technical limitations are of course that the fibre doesn't go beyond
>1.5 kilometres of a telephone exchange or a node."
>
>Uhm, any ideas?

Now this should be interesting. The semantics of the sentence is odd. 
'the fibre doesn't go beyond 1.5 km of a telephone exchange or node' 
-- sounds very strange to me. Does that mean the Labor proposed 
network would not install fibre 1.5 km beyond a node? Or does she 
really mean that one must be within 1.5 km of an exchange to get high 
speed performance over copper connected to a node based fibre network?

Frankly, the sentence is just odd.

The preceding bit:

>"Industry has pretty much established that it would be both physically and
>technically impossible to reach 98% of the population with a fibre build,"
>she said.

is also odd. Isn't it true that 98% of the population live in/near 
major or regional cities? If yes, the FTTN would reach that amount of 
the population, physically and technically, if there was enough money 
to do so.  But then if there is more than 2% living 1.5 km from the 
node, she and the industry guy would be right.

Anyway, that's my analysis of the situation. Semantics and 
confabulation of different things.

Jan


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