Here's what happens when a broadband FTTN roadside cabinet is hit by a 4WD.
http://iforce.co.nz/i/1u451yzi.vex.jpg http://iforce.co.nz/i/ne1mpgww.dd5.jpg http://iforce.co.nz/i/usvhgrwc.xrr.jpg "A FTTN cabinet in New Zealand that was hit by a car and kept working" Kiwi tech community Geekzone yesterday noticed that a car (probably a four- wheel drive) ran into a FTTN cabinet used by Kiwi Telco Chorus to deliver its Whisper service. New Zealand's National Business Review now reports that the cabinet kept working for hours after the incident, with Chorus spokes-singers saying there was enough slack cable beneath the box that being knocked off its pedestal wasn't fatal. Nor did being cut off from its power source end service: an on-board battery kept connections alive and a replacement is due to go into service today. Update: Further posts to the thread suggest internet service did not last for very long once the cabinet took the hit. Phone services also appear to have been disrupted .. Ref: www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/08/kiwi_fttn_cabinet_survives_car_crash/ -- Personally I can't understand how come the Coalition think that there will only be ONE user at each NBN household end point. It is obvious to me that for each household only one user at any time will be an unusual situation. In the evenings anyway it seems more likely that every person in each home with an NBN connection would be utilizing it, majorly, especially kids and Skype video-conferenced peer-study-groups. (Haha!) And why shouldn't they? Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
