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Originally Posted by OICURMT
Yep that would explain the slow progress... digging by hand...  |
Through the deal with Telstra, much of the cabling will now go through the Telstra
trenches where they exist. However laying cables in a street is still a very labour
intensive process. The cables have to usually be hand fed through and are then
terminated at the street level to Fiber Distributing Hubs (FDHs). From there
they go to a Premises Connection Device (PCD) which is installed
on the outside of the house and then to a Fibre Wall Outlet and then to
the Network Termination Device (NTD), powered by a dedicated wall mounted
Power Supply Unit (PSU) which requires its own GPO outlet.
Further upstream, there is an enormous amount of infrastructure in creating the
network itself, including the construction of purpose built facilities throughout the
country that provide the points of interconnect.
It is what we call "Big E" Engineering. One of the largest deployments on the planet.
So it will take quite a time.
Here is a video that shows one aspect of urban street installation -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwvw1uv7dcQ