<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>Ok, so I could have picked a less drastic example :-) However the current copper network isn't exactly impervious to mis-use or deliberate attack.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div>...<br><div><div><br><div><div>On 22/07/2013, at 2:02 PM, Paul Brooks <<a href="mailto:pbrooks@layer10.com.au">pbrooks@layer10.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Plus few people will want to deliberately destroy their own broadband access port, it would make the call to customer service "my broadband doesn't work any more" somewhat embarrassing!<br><br><div style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
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<b>From:</b> Jonathan Thorpe <<a href="mailto:jthorpe@Conexim.com.au">jthorpe@Conexim.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Mon Jul 22 13:41:39 AEST 2013<br>
<b>To:</b> David Hughes <<a href="mailto:david@hughes.com.au">david@hughes.com.au</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices<br>
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<pre class="k9mail">Chances are, it will hit an opto-isolator and damage the voice or DSLAM port, but not the entire DSLAM. It's pretty easy to figure out who did what.<br><br>We don't hear of lightning strikes taking out DSLAMs do we?<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: David Hughes [mailto:david@<a href="http://hughes.com.au">hughes.com.au</a>] <br>Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 1:39 PM<br>To: Jonathan Thorpe<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices<br><br><br><br>On 22/07/2013, at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Thorpe <<a href="mailto:jthorpe@conexim.com.au">jthorpe@conexim.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">What happens if someone directs a laser pointer (at approximately the correct wavelength) down a GPON fibre interface?</blockquote><br>What's to stop someone lighting up a POTS line with 240v AC at the moment? Mal
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mis-use is always going to be hard to stop or isolate completely. <br><br><br>Thanks<br><br>David<br>...<br><hr><br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br></pre><br>
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