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Used to work for a cable company, and rode out with the fiber guys. As much as the industry is horrible to its customers, I respect the cost and effort needed to run fiber.
Can’t hear most of the last couple of words of every sentence, because this guy can’t maintain his own volume, but is apparently very happy to put a very loud background music on top of his.
I didn’t though they shot the wires through the tubes like that.
in my town they just put a bunch of old telephone poles and all those fibers just hang from them in a rubber casing like regular cables.
So the internet is a series of tubes after all.
*How It’s Laid*
lol what? Is that the way you do it in america? No wonder you have about the same internet infrastructure as my country in the late 90’s.
This is micro trenching it’s the cheapest/worst way to install fiber and only works in limited locals. Typically places that don’t have weather extremes to worry about. Long term it is not as good an install practice such as horizontal boring.
Google tried this in Louisville, Ky and it led to the complete failure of their network including them pulling out of the city and paying the local government $4 million to try and clean up the mess they made and repair all the damage they had done.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/google-fiber-exits-louisville-pays-city-3-8m-to-clean-up-the-mess-it-left/amp/
We need publicly owned, municipal internet. Like water and healthcare, the people should own the internet.
Doesn’t really address telecommunications companies taking money that was supposed to go to new infrastructure or their lobbying against local, City-run initiatives. But yeah I’m sure digging the hole and laying the wire is the problem.
Watching the dude play tug of war with the truck to un-spool cable was entertaining
I find it a bit odd that they leave the connection box on the outside of the house instead of getting it inside. Where I’m from the boxes are always mounted inside the home where it is then directly plugged to the optical network terminal. Given how sensitive these optical wires are I wouldn’t want it to be outside.
Surprisingly informative. Pressure hosing the dirt enough that it can be sucked out to make room was the most interesting to me, as my question is always, how do they make room, especially when it’s sharing already used areas.