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Building a TCP/ IP Network Over Dark Fiber?
1101z asks: "Well I work for a public access station in a city where a second cable/phone/internet company has moved just started operating. Part of there deal with the city was to let us have (for free) dark fiber links between several location in the city and our studio, so that we would be able to cablecast live from those locations. As the computer guy I would like to be able to interconnect computer networks that already exist at several of those locations, when we are not using the fiber for cablecast. The question is what is the cheapest way to build a TCP/IP network over this dark fiber." I wonder if the fiber being used is related to this story, from a month ago?
Goal: TCP/IP over dark fiber.
So far as I can see, you can't do it.
As soon as you try, the fiber won't be dark anymore, invalidating one of the conditions. You can have dark fiber, or fiber with TCP/IP (or just pretty lights for that matter) but not both at the same time.
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Your sincere dedication to giving this guy such a completely incorrect answer is very admirable. It fills my heart with joy to know that there are still people out there who want to care.
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Ahh, the dark fiber is strong in this one..... he will be a good network warrior.
As part of a deal with a new pet store, the city has been provided several free "dark" carrier pigeons.
Can someone please help me discover what additional hardware I need to do RFC 1149/CPIP?
I would also try "goo-gling" but I'm a grown man and it sounds like something more approbate for a baby to do.
Right about now the querant's head just exploded. "You mean I can't just buy a Linksys Fibre-Optic router?"
Joking! Joking!
Why not fork?
For someone claiming to be a guru...
Pardon me, sir or madam, but I believe you have me confused with somebody else.
Honestly, now, let's take a survey. Who here can keep NetBIOS/NetBEUI straight, huh? Who among us hasn't given up on the whole thing?
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Assuming that you would want to have your video equipment plugged in all the time and want to hijack its bandwidth only when it's transmitting blank stream, you can hook up (entirely in software) a weird setup which would dump data packets over digital video link (as if they were streams of pixels) and decode them on the other end, assuming that your video streams pass thru some kind of video caption cards inside more or less general-purpose computer... :)
;-) )
Yeah, it might be slow, but as a next step you might consider some steganography: why not use couple LSBs in each pixel for data and the rest for video?
(If anyone cares to moderate this, please mod it as "funny", not "informative"
Paul B.