[AusNOG] Water in Fibre cables

[XiTatiON]

Yup where required new cabinets will be installed...

I believe the plan is to also retro fit into existing spots where 
possible, unless this has changed.

On 9/03/2012 12:09 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
>
> On 09/03/2012, at 11:33 AM, XiTatiON wrote:
>
>> http://blogs.cisco.com/wp-content/uploads/NBN-fibre-serving-area-550x388.jpg  
>> (sorry not the best picture ever... couldn't find a better one though.)
>>
>> So basically what happens is a single fiber runs from the OLT to a 
>> passive splitter that you will find in some of the old Telstra poles 
>> and pits around the place.  A single fiber is used for TX and RX 
>> using different wavelengths.
>
> Splitters are in roadside cabinets.  See this photo for an example:
>
> http://1mmc.com/pub/nbn-roadside-cab.jpg
>
> Top of the cabinet are the splitters - fibre connectors on the back 
> panel are towards the customers.
>
> Moving customers around and connecting them is dead easy, just need a 
> fibre cleaner.   You can see how easy it is to reposition customers 
> between splitters if one runs out of bandwidth or you move to a new 
> technology.
>
> MMC
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