Interesting Fibre development

[reech]

This kinda technology could certainly change the landscape in za:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/bt_air/

from the register:
"
Compressed air could help bridge digital divide
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
By Tim Richardson
Published Friday 14th October 2005 14:35 GMT
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BT is looking to wire up remote areas with broadband services by blowing fibre optic cables between existing telephone poles.

The lightweight cables - no thicker than a human hair - can be used to provide a high speed private circuit to businesses in rural areas.

What's different, is that BT is using a lightweight tube through which up to four fibres, bundled together, are blown at high speed using compressed air.

Since this "droptube" is much lighter and thinner than a standard overhead optical fibre cable, the telco should be able run the cables using existing telephone poles without having to strengthen them or install new ones.

Such a move could help reduce the cost of make bringing high-speed connections to rural areas.

The service is currently being trialled in an exposed part of Pembrokeshire, Wales, where engineers will be able to test whether the "droptube" can survive harsh, windy conditions. ®
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[Scooby_Doo]

Yeah now all we need is to give telkom an incentive to do so.

 

[bekdik]

Wow, a whole new blow job for Telkom to get into.

 

[stoke]

ROFL

So:
Step 1 : Lay a lightweight hollow conduit on the poles.
Step 2 : Blow some Fibre into the conduit.

Um ... how exactlee is this different from:
Step 1 : Lay a lightweight hollow conduit on the poles and thread fibre through it at the same time.

 

[bekdik]

lightweight tube through which up to four fibres, bundled together, are blown at high speed

Now in addition to getting rear ended by Telkom, you're suggesting they give blow jobs?

Well I guess any really good whore is adaptible.

 

[ambo]

I must be honest - apart from the fact that they are doing this with overhead line - the whole blowing fibre thing is not that ground breaking or new...

DiData was installing a new underground fibre backbone at Wits this year and this is how they were feeding the fibre into the ground...

They laid thin tubes through all the underground ducts on the campus and then sat at one of the man-hole covers with a gen-set and a compresser blowing the fibres into the tubes....