[LINK] Telecoms lessons learnt in the flood

[Birch, Jim]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> I'm short of time to dig up the original paper, but last year I
investigated this, and found a study by some US engineers. They tested -
down to the microscope level - a fibre removed from a network in Oregon.
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.

If you rediscover the source, could you please post it.   I've lost the
link too.  I thought everyone who should know would know and I was
catching up.

After reading it appeared to me that apart from the odd errant backhoe
attack the in-ground fibre network can be expected to run for very long
(ie, unpredictably long) time.  Over this time the terminal equipment
will likely go through multiple upgrades.   This puts one of the more
frivolous anti-NBN talking points to bed.

- Jim


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