[AusNOG] fibre path diversity

[Craig Askings]

On 15/12/2011 3:29 PM, Tony wrote:
>
> "We are cutting the 96 fibre cable so that we can create a new splice 
> joint to complete diversity to <street address>"
>
> Does this sound like a customer has requested diverse fibre paths to 
> the premises to they are just splicing the fibre somwhere upstream to 
> create the diversity ? This seems slightly strange to me as you would 
> still have a single redundant path upstream of this new splice, which 
> appears to be <200m from the end point.

It is most likely the other half of this diverse service is on a 
different fibre cable and it either goes up the street in the other 
direction or is on a different street front to the building.

Craig.
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