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The shallow trenching of Google Fiber was meant to counteract telcos strong arming them out of pole attachment. If the regulatory problem was solved then the d
by antiterra 5y ago
The shallow trenching of Google Fiber was meant to counteract telcos strong arming them out of pole attachment.
If the regulatory problem was solved then the difficulties of shallow burial are no longer be a significant impediment.
- sgt101 5y agoYup - but their PR was that it is better, cheaper and quicker than poles; which is total bollocks in urban builds. In rural settings I think that poles are bad due to those nasty tree things that fall through the cables, but mostly ducting is a better solution anyway.
- zdragnar 5y agoI asked my local company if they were bringing fiber in on existing poles or trenching, and they said they had to trench because fiber isnt flexible enough to go up on poles. Maybe it is specific to the ones we have- last year a bad storm with 60mph winds caused power lines to clack together and knock out power for several hours.
- dekhn 5y agouh, my fiber is literally just a cable coming down from the pole next to my house. fiber runs on poles all over, like oregon. https://www.michaelsinsight.com/2010/09/hunters-shooting-destroying-googles-fiber-connection-for-oregon-datacenter.html https://www.michaelsinsight.com/2010/09/hunters-shooting-des...
- jayd16 5y agoIf you count how hard it is to get onto the poles in the US then its not bollocks.
- antiterra 5y agoThe difficulties they had around pole attachment meant that shallow trenching was a last ditch (no pun intended) effort. If you attach to a pole in many jurisdictions you are at the mercy of foot-dragging by everyone else on the pole to make way. Google tried to change the rules but ran into significant and expensive opposition from those who were well entrenched (again, pun not intended.)