[LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

[Tom Worthington]

On 12/07/14 19:40, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> It's finally dawned on someone and they have yet to solve it. Nine
> months. ZERO connections to FTTN. ...

Perhaps the NBN Nodes could be solar powered, or by light sent down the 
fibre? ;-)

More seriously, power was not an issue for the Transact FTTN system in 
Canberra. The data cables were mostly run along power poles, by the 
local power company and so power was readily available.

The Transact node in the basement of my apartment block is located in a 
telecommunications closet designed into the building, with power 
supplied by the building (I assume the body corporate is paying for the 
power): http://www.tomw.net.au/links/20020501.html

On 12/07/14 21:05, Frank O'Connor wrote:

> ... issues that haven't even been looked at with respect to those
> pesky nodes ... maintenance ... traffic/disaster  ...

The Transact Nodes appear to have worked reliably for ten years. Part of 
the network was destroyed in the 2003 Canberra fire storm. Some nodes 
lost mains power and their battery backup ran out after 12 hours, but 
the main problem was that the overhead cable was vulnerable to fire. The 
rest of the network continued to operate (the Internet connection to my 
apartment kept working): 
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2003-January/047598.html


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