13 pointsby matt-pa day ago2 comments
  • bob102921 hours ago
    With DAS you can detect and prevent someone from breaking your fiber in the first place by using the fiber itself as a sensor.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_acoustic_sensing

    See also: https://texas811.org/guardian/

    • matt-p19 hours ago
      Super super cool technology. Last I heard, most deployments outside submarine networks still require a spare fibre, and the interrogators are at least an order of magnitude more expensive than OTDR, which you’d probably still want anyway. It would be amazing to see the cost come down enough for widespread deployment though.
  • _ache_21 hours ago
    Is it linked to the last month COLT problem?