[LINK] Turnbull's NBN

[David Lochrin]

On 2013-04-11 Tom Worthington wrote:

> We have had FTTN in Canberra for just over a decade, with the Transact
> system. If you have power poles handy, and the citizens don't mind more
> overhead wires, it is reasonably easy to do. Also it works okay in new
> buildings. My apartment building has a fibre optic node in the basement
> and twisted pair copper to each unit:
> http://www.tomw.net.au/links/20020501.html

But as others have pointed out, battery backup will be required if a power outage is not to take out telecommunications with it, and the cabinets will need to be ventilated.  So what happens when floods occur?  Will the kerbside nodes be somehow made impervious to water immersion, or will they all have to be replaced in an area affected by flooding?

Flooding on the Queensland-Flood scale is likely to become more common with global warming.

David L.