Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

[don at bowenvale.co.nz (Don Gould)]

This thread is really interesting to see what's happening in .us with power.

I've been following what's going on in .au with their ftth project 
(doing the whole country and pulling out the legacy copper systems, both 
tp and hfc) and there's been a bit of talk about issues in power cuts.

I'm in Christchurch.nz where we've been having earth quakes every day, 
it's interesting to see the mobile networks go to half service (2G, no 
3G on one network yesterday) when the quakes take out the suburban line 
transformers.

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On 27/12/2010 5:07 p.m., Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jared Mauch<jared at puck.nether.net>  said:
>> You are likely already at the mercy of some local hut for your
>> dialtone. Very few things home run to the co these days. It's unlikely
>> any hut has more than 24 hours of battery.
> The AT&T (formerly BellSouth) cabinets around here mostly have natural
> gas generators included, so they almost never go out.  The cable
> companies, on the other hand, might have enough battery to last through
> a brownout.
>


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