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| Re: Great Synch Though Well, fiber optics has been used for years around the globe under ground, under the sea, across continents, and strung on poles.
The technology itself is proven reliable. The fact that it's being strung into a house or a business doesn't change that.
It doesn't matter if Verizon decides to push voice, data, or 1000 channels of prOn over it, fiber has been proven to be the most trouble free and cost effective way to move large amounts of data.
Or, did I miss the latest massive deployment of copper trans oceanic and trans continental lines???
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). Same theory, in basic principle. The govt has been using fiber for secure high-speed communications for longer, PTP mostly but still. In FTTN it's pretty much PTP and routed over copper or whatever is locally feasable to the final destination...