Juts an FYI. I thought fiber was lightning proof also. As it turns out the fiber used by phone companies has copper tracers in it for location purposes (Without metal it's hard to find where it's buried). This in turn causes lightning strikes to cut fiber fairly often. I wouldn't have though about it, but a friend of the family is in charge of laying and repairing fiber for phone companies straightened me out on fiber.
There is however, usually a lot of extra fibers. At this point in time the cost to lay anything in the ground is much more expensive than the cost of big bundles. Sounds like a lot of extra fiber goes in the ground just so they don't have to lay more later...
Dan On 2/4/2013 6:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Consider that cost to manufacture the cable goes up as you put stuff in it. You not only need sensor packages, you also need to connect them so they can report data. Unless the sensors are optically powered and linked, they would compromise the inherent lighting immunity the fiber provides.
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