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

[Christopher Mclean]

Actually the way the fibre system is done may make it a bit harder to attack. Can't ringbark and alligator clip fibre.

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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<mailto: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!
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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?

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On 22/07/2013, at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Thorpe <jthorpe at conexim.com.au<mailto: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

David
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