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    On 03/09/2012 10:48 AM, Michael Christie (micchris) wrote:
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              style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
              "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
              73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">whether moisture directly against
              a fibre changes the refractive index of the fibre to an
              extent that communications is affected.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">Unless the moisture somehow
            penetrates the glass, no. Fibres are constructed with a
            coaxial core and cladding both made of glass with different
            refractive indexes. The internal reflective boundary (that
            keeps the light inside the core) is between the grades of
            glass, not an external  glass/air boundary.</span></p>
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    The main issue I see would be at cable joins, that's where stuff
    always seems to go pear shaped.<br>
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cite="mid:D0D2F0DBA66F264F98BC1B4B7923C5D409EC9B4A@xmb-hkg-411.apac.cisco.com"
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            73, 125);" lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);" lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);" lang="EN-AU"><span style="">·<span style="font:
                7pt "Times New Roman";">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span
              style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
              "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
              73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">The construction profile of fibre
              cables being laid by the NBN from the exchange (redundant
              term in the NBN world??) to the home.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">I remember in a previous life specifying optical
            cables with an armoured housing designed to resist burrowing
            wombats…. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">Not sure NBNCo is going that far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">Mike.</span><br>
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    I hope they are in rural areas, they dug out the foundations of my
    grandmother in laws house ;-><br>
    You know one of the reasons the new power lines they are running are
    all twisted together is because Cockatoos don't like to sit on them
    and chew the wires (as they do for the current ones)<br>
    <br>
    Does anybody know where one could find what the physical in ground
    layout of the NBN is? <br>
    IE how does the cable/data get from one of the POP's to a customers
    premises?<br>
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