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


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