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

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

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> From: Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
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> Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 7:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday
 - NBN fibre on copper prices
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> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 17:07 +0930, Sam Silvester wrote:
>>  No, we have live fibre identifiers that work just fine through the plastic
>>  coating on patchleads. They'll even tell you which direction the light 
> is
>>  travelling so you can work out which way is TX/RX.
> 
> Excellent! Live and learn :-)
> 
> So all thats needed to make tamper-evident fibre is to sheath it in an
> opaque material. Seems simple - in fact, I wonder why fibre is even
> manufactured with translucent coverings.
> 

Probably so fibre identifiers work ;-)

> Regards, K.
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