[LINK] Telecoms lessons learnt in the flood

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:51 AM 21/01/2011, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>After ten years of annual snow, flooding, mudslides, and summers over 30
>degrees, they found the fibre's performance was indistinguishable from
>when it was new.

Glass is glass. Think windows, only more pure. The potential damage 
is to the electronics, not the transmission medium, I would think. 
Although, if the sheathing were damaged, there could possibly(?) be 
some light leakage between the strands? Dunno.

Jan



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