Question: Supposing you buy a bundle of a couple of dozen fibers inside one outer jacket: Can anyone give me an idea of how well the individual fibers are likely to be matched in delay, and in delay tempco?
Dana On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 1:46 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > > In message <c3c70d17-3e2d-44c6-924c-f780b2245...@n1k.org>, Bob kb8tq > writes: > > > That’s why they design a certain amount of “slack” into the structure. > > As far as I know, thermal expansion and contact losses are far > bigger dimensioning factors, except for a few very active fault-lines. > > At these fault-lines and/or with very important fibers, special and > site-specific precautions are usually taken. > > For terrestial faultlines, the cheapest and easiest mitigation is > to cross the fault-line on poles with a slack messengerwire. > > For oceanfloor faultlines, plenty of slack and an oblique crossing > is the best we've come up with yet. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
