Re:San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold
by liotier on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:35PM
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Noise can be controlled. As I work for a French telco, I know it is one of the important parameters to manage when shoehorning an FTTH head-end in a residential building in a very dense neighborhood. Heat too ! It is routinely done, unless you want to cheap out and just drop a bare container on a concrete slab... Which would not surprise me much in a nation where utility poles are still considered adequate as city infrastructure (I remember the face of one of our American suppliers when he realized that we bury everything...)
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Re:San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold
by adventured on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:33PM
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Buried everything is not unusual in the US. Roughly 20% of power lines in the US are buried. Contrast that to somewhere like Tokyo, which has less than 10% of its power lines buried (which shoots a massive hole in your theory about that having anything to do with whether a nation's infrastructure is adequate). It varies from location to location in the US; where I grew up, everything was buried. It's bizarre that your supplier would in any regard be surprised by such a thing.
Re:San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold
by tornadoboy55 on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:56AM
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> (which shoots a massive hole in your theory about that having anything to do with whether a nation's infrastructure is adequate)
Let's not pretend the US infrastructure is anywhere near as adequately done as in most North or West-European countries.
Re:San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold
by iwintermute on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:57AM
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I always thought that Tokyo situation is because of constant seismic activity - when you have so many earthquakes it would be very hard to find the break underground