My dad worked for a rural water utility in the 90s, and he said that at that time fiber was the worst thing they could accidentally dig through. That area didn’t have buried power cables, it was pretty easy to cap off a gas line if you accidentally nicked it, and any electrician could splice a telephone cable back together. But fiber was a pain, because the communications company had to send down a special tech to do the splice.
I wonder what has happened to invert that so dramatically.
The devices to splice fiber have become cheap and very easy. You can watch videos of fiber splicing with such devices and will be proficient with them in roughly ten minutes. It really has become this mundane.
My dad worked for a rural water utility in the 90s, and he said that at that time fiber was the worst thing they could accidentally dig through. That area didn’t have buried power cables, it was pretty easy to cap off a gas line if you accidentally nicked it, and any electrician could splice a telephone cable back together. But fiber was a pain, because the communications company had to send down a special tech to do the splice.
I wonder what has happened to invert that so dramatically.
The devices to splice fiber have become cheap and very easy. You can watch videos of fiber splicing with such devices and will be proficient with them in roughly ten minutes. It really has become this mundane.
Amazing how technology has improved, then!