My argument before the lawmakers is that a 100% microwave network is not the best thing for public safety. They should do public private partnerships and take fiber feeds to their radio sites. They are arguing that microwave will always win out over fiber. I can argue this both ways depending on who is buttering my bread.
From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:44 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Earthquake Fiber vs Microwave 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]> 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. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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