[LINK] Turnbull's NBN

Paul Brooks pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au
Thu Apr 11 09:27:53 AEST 2013


On 11/04/2013 9:18 AM, David Lochrin wrote:
> 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.

What happens now when floods occur and RIM cabinets are inundated?
We already have experience with FTTN networks - Telstra's collection of RIM cabinets
can all be considered FTTN nodes. FTTN is nothing new in Australia.

P.



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