I’m working on building fiber networks. I still prefer the wireless. It either works or it doesn’t. It’s either broken on that side or this side. There’s no in between.
We have a saying in the office “it takes an act of God to fade a microwave, but any moron with a backhoe can fade a fiber line” Unfortunately I agree with them in this case. > On Feb 25, 2019, at 6:49 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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