The lesson I am drawing from this discussion is “don’t put all your eggs in one 
basket”.  It seems like any given natural (or man-made) disaster might have a 
greater impact on fiber or microwave (ignoring that many networks are a hybrid 
of both technologies), it’s hard to say one will always be more immune or 
quicker to restore.  So a little of each might be best.  Like FTTH plus 
cellular as backup.

 

From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lewis Bergman
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:20 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Earthquake Fiber vs Microwave

 

I don't have earthquake knowledge but I do know that when the US bombed the 
crap or of Iraq a huge amount O of fiber was destroyed by the percussion of the 
explosions. As a result all US bases that I know of were rebuilt using heavy 
rigid conduit. Cost the fortunes. 

 

I doubt there is any direct correlation and I don't know if extremely rigid 
conduit would survive a quake better than anything else. I saw a documentary on 
it years back. 

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 3:25 PM Seth Mattinen <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

UNR has an earthquake lab. No idea how much it costs to get time on the 
equipment though outside of a research project (industry user). Probably 
not cheap.

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