[gaia] L.110 Lightweight Optical Cable

Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 26 September 2017 08:39 UTC

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Subject: [gaia] L.110 Lightweight Optical Cable
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There's a couple of new standards for cheaper / lighter / easy-install
fibre with 10x lower capex. ITU-T L.1700 & L.110 are new and
potentially gamechangers here. Could make it much easier for rural
underserved areas to get Internet connectivity
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/07/light-weight-optical-cable-cut-rural-ftth-broadband-costs.html

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