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Yeah I understand aerial lines carried by those large towers shown in that image, but utility poles that can get hit by trucks seems problematic. Partly for acc
by patejam 8y ago
Yeah I understand aerial lines carried by those large towers shown in that image, but utility poles that can get hit by trucks seems problematic. Partly for accidental incidents like a truck crash, but also partly because of how easily it can become an attack vector.
I guess the plus side is that utility pole lines are probably the easiest to fix when cut.
- walrus01 8y agoAerial fiber (ADSS or lashed to strand) is like 1/15th of the cost to build per km compared to underground, 40 inch buried trenched. A lot of the fiber built during the dotcom 1.0 boom with VC money was trenched along railways or pipeline right of ways.