At 10:51 AM 2/07/2016, David Lochrin you wrote: >It sounds very confused, as though the writer imagines a single distribution >fibre is split evenly every time it comes to a house, so the signal after 'n' >houses is then (2^-n). But even then, optical transmission is very efficient >and transmission loss has nothing to do with the splitter. Not that I'm any >expert on this stuff...
AFAIK, light doesn't 'degrade' because it's in the glass. It's pulses of light, not radio waves w/ frequencies. This is a pretty good explanation: http://www.explainthatstuff.com/fiberoptics.html The question I have is are they installing single-mode or multi-mode fibre? Jan I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Some psychopaths become serial killers, and other psychopaths become prosecutors. - Bob Ruff, Truth and Justice, June 2016 Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
