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"Jack Twilley" wrote The idea of buried fiber along every two-lane road in the country may be a fantasy, but laying cable along every Interstate is certainly doable with the resources available. Of course, who will run this true "information superhighway" is the next debate... Ten-twelve years ago I was up in northern Minnesota deer hunting. Got up to my stand way back down a township road, 5 miles from the nearest dwelling, at zero-dark-thirty and waited for Bambi's dad to show up with the sunrise. Just in time for morning colors (0800) I start hearing this awful racket off in the distance, like a farmer might be buring drainage tiles or something, except this part of Minnesota hasn't seen an agricultural plow since the depression. Finally got curious (and cold) enough to go investigate. Here, out in the middle of absolute nowhere, is a contract crew burying a 144-fiber cable big as your wrist, and another spare alonside of it. Every half-mile they put in an above-ground service loop, and the next day another crew came behind and plonked down a splice-and-access pedestal at each loop waiting for the subscribers to show up. The pedestals are still there, some kinda shot up, but no customers on the horizon. I bet the local Podunk Power Cooperative is getting ready to roll out BPL in the same manner! 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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