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Co-axial to fibre-optic cable
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- Title
- Co-axial to fibre-optic cable
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- Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- Description
Post Office engineer Ian Harris holds up old copper co-axial cable with its multitude of wires, and new fibre-optic cable. After the Second World War an upsurge in subscriber numbers created huge network demands, especially in Auckland. This was met by underground co-axial cabling plus ‘microwave’ technology (with its striking-looking pylons), which could span difficult terrain in the middle-North Island. From 1983 the co-axial cable was replaced by fibre-optic cable with a much greater capac...
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- Date created
- 13 April 2010
- Creator
- Phil Reid
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- Alexander Turnbull Library
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- https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22020/co-axial-to-fibre-optic-cable
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