[AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices

[Sam Silvester]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:20 +1000, Andrew Jones wrote:
> >  From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_tapping :
> > Test equipment can simply put a bend in the fibre and extract
> > sufficient light to identify a fibre or determine if a signal is
> > present.
>
> I'm prepared to be wrong - I often am - but I'm pretty sure the sheath
> is off that bent fibre...
>
> When I say "sheath" I'm not talking about the cladding, I'm talking
> about the external plastic coating.
>
>
>
No, we have live fibre identifiers that work just fine through the plastic
coating on patchleads. They'll even tell you which direction the light is
travelling so you can work out which way is TX/RX.

Sam
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