Would you
always use roads or railways rather than going through the middle of nowhere? Because of the hassle of securing permission from farmers so very many times? Roads can be very wiggly, so a long distance route could get longer than the straight line route.
What else is there ? Canals? Long distance big pipelines - is that correct?
I thought I remembered something about B4RN and a pipeline giving them a huge backbone when they got started, but I can’t find it so I must be imagining things.
If you’re in the middle of nowhere though like B4RN you might get lucky and they have the M6 so they’re extremely lucky.
I was reading about Bogons the ISP and their
Cold War bunker in Perthshire. They needed a
fibre optic massive link to Edinburgh and Openreach hooked Bogons up with a
100Gbps link. I would love to know just exactly how that was physically done. Existing ducts? Upgrades of existing paths?
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The train lines I suppose can be a great asset, accessible and
straight, so the shortest distance, and therefore they minimise latency.
If you need to switch sides, or you have a problem because there is a line branching off on your side, then you have to go under the track.
In the latter case, will there often be an existing (speculative) duct in place ready, just for this purpose ?
If no existing duct, can we easily just sneak under, by scooping out a little material under the rail and then replacing some of it as needed?
Can you buy the rights to put your own fibre into the railway line?