Hi David, On Fri, 13 May 2016 15:16:22 +1000 David Boxall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... homes that are still too remote for a copper cable are definitely > > going to be too remote for a fibre connection, as a copper cable can > > be strung up on poles but you have to trench fibre and in the arid > > area of Australia there are plants whose roots steal water from other > > plants roots by slicing into them and they do the same thing to any > > underground cables they come across so they have to have extra > > reinforcement. > Isn't the fibre component of HFC normally overhead? I know that's the > case for TransACT.
TransACT is FTTN ... I *think* (but do not know) that the fibre is (mostly) underground and the copper is either underground or overhead (in 100 pair bundles?). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
