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shmokes:
That story doesn't make much sense. Fiber is only useful where it is laid. That is, if they ran fiber to your building or to your neighborhood, that can't just be given away to someone. What good to the DHS College Station setup is a bunch of fiber that's physically buried in the ground leading to various residential neighborhoods? The College Station can only use fiber that's been physically run to its location. Am I missing something?
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 18, 2012, 06:20:56 pm ---That story doesn't make much sense. Fiber is only useful where it is laid. That is, if they ran fiber to your building or to your neighborhood, that can't just be given away to someone. What good to the DHS College Station setup is a bunch of fiber that's physically buried in the ground leading to various residential neighborhoods? The College Station can only use fiber that's been physically run to its location. Am I missing something?
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yes, you are. they pull a line from the main distribution station (most likely los angeles where the fiber optic lines that come from asia enter north america) and get it to the next town/city then place a substation there... so on and so forth until it reaches a neighborhood in your town/city.
there is basically a main trunk line of several thousand gigabits per second that link the continents...to the main distribution stations where it gets chopped up to several hundred gigabyte lines between several hundred substations in major citys. It is then chopped up again to several gigabit lines and sent to various smaller citys and towns where it gets distributed again to neigborhoods and finally to houses.
so even with fiber optic, you still only receive a small portion of the whole, albeit it's still a shitton of data. Most internet service providers (cable DSL etc) have fiberoptic, they just convert in their own substation to use it with their system. This is why the internet is capable of much faster speeds.
the aforementioned line they installed is only a small portion of the lines fanning out from the substation in the city. The college station simply took over the majority of the throughput from the substation (or the distribution line coming into the substation all together). A dick move still.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on July 18, 2012, 07:10:07 pm ---The college station simply took over the majority of the throughput from the substation (or the distribution line coming into the substation all together).
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What do you mean took over? It sounds to me like it had never been turned on. And in any case, if there's still fiber running to all the all the houses, surely the College Station taking over a chunk of throughput can't be that big an issue (or even an issue at all). If they ever want to light up all that fiber, even if the College Station thing is using too much bandwidth, all they've gotta do is run another line to the substation. It's not like all that taxpayer-funded infrastructure was just appropriated for something else--I mean, unless there's more to this story than what's been given so far . . .
edit: Bear in mind . . . I'm not trying to be difficult. My understanding of this is limited. I totally embrace the possibility that I'm wrong here. My argument is based almost entirely on intuition . . . it just doesn't seem to add up for me.
lilshawn:
i would say you're probably right...the government does pretty much whatever the hell it wants.
all in the name of liberty and justice for some.
ChadTower:
I am thinking in this context took over means it was given to them as a dedicated line. Nobody else uses it for security reasons. It's not a percentage of total available bandwidth.
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