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The fiber isn't useful without the optoelectronics.

• Retric 10y ago
  Electronics are generally well protected from the power grid due to lightning strikes. If it makes you feel better compared to lighting strikes which regularly hit power lines and are DC this is locally much less of an issue. Sure, if this happened tomorrow it would make the news, but other than some extremely local events where things failed it just the right way it's a non issue.
  • late2part 10y ago
    Maybe you're right. I've been doing this for some time, and I do admit there generally seems to be far more fiber cuts that equipment outages :-) Maybe that's because of redundancy, or the failures in equipment are less visible than the fiber reroutes. OTOH, every time I've tried to do 1 mile + wifi on a tower (e.g. 20 meter antenna tower) it's always been the lightning that killed the AP!