[AusNOG] Brisbane gets "NBN" early??

Andrew Fort afort at choqolat.org
Thu Oct 14 22:04:25 EST 2010


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:01 PM, phil colbourn <philcolbourn at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, they ran a point-to-point optical fibre 1.4km long in a sewer pipe and
> it worked! Amazing.
> "microtrenching cuts a slot around 600mm deep and 20mm wide in which the
> cable is laid"

Oh dear.  Someone might suggest they run a testbed microtrench next to
a road, and leave a test fibre "in the groove" for a year or more.
They may be surprised with where the fibre ends up.

-a



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