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aus.rail
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:35 pm
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I can see it now, broadband for the masses thanks to the SRA's fiber
optic/copper network......... *cough* *cough*
"Steamy" <shotto@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:0b32a.45219$jM5.112888@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> It may be old news but it's something different, I've never heard of this
> one...
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> http://www.abc.net.au/science/bernie/news/s133567.htm
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> Cheers,
> Steamy.
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> Newcastle, NSW
> Australia
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gallop3
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 8:26 pm
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what a great idea
the only trouble here would be that some multi national would patent the idea and try and make billions out of it so in reality we would be back to square one
cheers
ian
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awsgc24
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:36 am
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When Optus installed an optic fibre cable from SA to WA they did it along the Transaustralian Railway. Two optic fibres were allocated to the Railroad and the rest, perhaps 10 in number were allocated to Optus. By sharing the cable, each organisation halved their costs.
In NSW, the Railway telephone system is now outsourced to a company called Argus Communication, which is given a free rein to sell any spare optic fibre capacity to fourth parties, such as the NSW Government, and the Department of Education, and this enables Argus to charge less for communications services sold to the Railways.
Optic fibre cable ought to be easy to install on electrified railways where there are lots of strong overhead wiring structure upon which to string the fibres.
Any idea that the rails of the railway themselves can be used for communications links (if that is what the JJJ item means) is bizarre, since, amongst other reasons, the rails are shorted out when a train is in the section.
There is nothing here that is so clever that it could be patented.
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