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

[David Hughes]

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.


David
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On 22/07/2013, at 2:02 PM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks at layer10.com.au> wrote:

> 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!
> 
> From: Jonathan Thorpe <jthorpe at Conexim.com.au>
> Sent: Mon Jul 22 13:41:39 AEST 2013
> To: David Hughes <david at hughes.com.au>
> Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices
> 
> 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.
> 
> We don't hear of lightning strikes taking out DSLAMs do we?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hughes [mailto:david at hughes.com.au] 
> Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 1:39 PM
> To: Jonathan Thorpe
> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices
> 
> 
> 
> On 22/07/2013, at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Thorpe <jthorpe at conexim.com.au> wrote:
> 
> What happens if someone directs a laser pointer (at approximately the correct wavelength) down a GPON fibre interface?
> 
> What's to stop someone lighting up a POTS line with 240v AC at the moment?  Mal
>  icious
> mis-use is always going to be hard to stop or isolate completely. 
> 
> 
> Thanks
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> David
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