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Re:Flicking the kill switch: governments embrace internet sh... by ravel-bar-foo on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:15AM (#32691790)
Actually you do. Longer fibers need more repeaters, and the ideal fiber on land is strung down pipes (this allows later capacity upgrades). Both of these are cheaper if existing roads are paralleled.
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Re:Flicking the kill switch: governments embrace internet sh... by robryk on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:20AM (#32691853)
Sure, you want to optimize for total length. However, you don't have any meaningful restrictions on turn radius, which do exist when you want to build a road and which make building a road around holdouts oftentimes impossible.
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