[AusNOG] Why not Symmetric ingress and egress?

[Phil Pierotti]

So yes there's the downside of pretty much *any* service repairs being non-trivial, but there's also the upside of no longer getting "trivial service repairs" like we do in the current copper network.

I'm talking about eradicating practices like twisting a couple of wires together, putting a ziploc bag over it, and assuming "she'll be right, mate" in your currently flooding comms pit.

Personally I'm looking forwards to things actually getting *fixed* rather than just bodged together to the point where it's not actually 100% broken 100% of the time and then walking away as if the issue has actually been resolved.

Phil P


From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Tim McCullagh
Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2010 11:22 AM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Why not Symmetric ingress and egress?

I really do pity the 55% of homes that are going to get aerial FTTH, talk about recipe for disaster.  It isn't the same as copper, you can't just scotch lock a bit into it when it gets brought down by wind, fires trucks etc.   For those that want to remind me about backhoe fade, yes that happens in one spot.   In the case of fire and wind it will happen in many spots, over large geographic areas.  Trying to reconstruct quickly will take time.  You cant run fibre acress a driveway to effect quick repairs like copper.  I could go on but I am already off topic.
regards Tim



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