[opendtv] Re: Steel pipes for gas!
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:01:53 -0500
On 10/31/06, flyback1 <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Miller wrote:
Also what is the issue with using a plastic pipe as to transmission?
Would the signal leak from such a pipe buried underground or would it
stay in the pipe? John suggest that it would have to have metal in the
plastic.
If you have to have metalized plastic I guess that would eliminate the
main attraction of gas line broadband where ever plastic is deployed
since you would have to dig it up and replace it with a metalized
version.
Bob Miller
Verizon just buried fiber down my street.
FIOS will be available in several months.
Fiber doesn't corrode,
doesn't conduct electricity due to lightning,
doesn't oxidize or otherwise deteriorate
due to the elements although
there is an old Phone Co. term, 'the backhoe fade'
but that applies to anything buried.
Given all this, who would bury a metallic cable these days
for new communications distribution and why? It will only
deteriorate and need replacing long before the fiber will.
Have I missed out on a pivotal point in the discussion?
Oh, by the way, all the gas pipes I've ever seen installed
under the streets here in PA and DE are a sort of pinkinsh
colored plastic, although the distribution feeder into the
meter in the basement is still black iron.
Fiber can be affected by water and rats I have heard. Fiber can be cut
by things other than rats and backhoes. Most companies in lower
Manhattan had redundant fiber, went out of the building in more than
one direction, but found on 9/11 that most of their redundant
connections shared the same right of ways blocks away that were all
cut by the WTC collapse.
Same problem with sewer, gas, or power lines IMO. I like wireless for
the last mile. You have more control, know where your connections are
and can fix the problem much quicker than with fiber in many cases.
Putting up that first full duplex Loea Gbps connection, one of the
first Loea did anywhere, took three hours from the time the truck hit
the curb at the first building.
Bob Miller
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