2024-04-07, 03:00 PM
(2024-04-04, 05:42 PM)Beardilocks Wrote: AFAIK they’re laying fiber optic into the park. Purpose undisclosed.
Yep, fiber optic. From what I've read in past park planning documents it is almost certainly for telephone/data (land and cell) back haul.
Right now the microwave repeater on Mormon peak is the only way any phone or internet (land or cell) gets into the valley (other than satellite solutions). The Mormon repeater is piss slow (like 90 Mbps aggregate) which is one reason cell data stinks in the valley. There has been a plan in the works to upgrade the Mormon peak repeater to 1.5 Gbps for awhile now but I've yet to see any notification since the public comment period a couple of years ago.
Fiber optic backhaul is of course preferred. A planning document from 2022 indicated at the time fiber wasn't expected until 2027 and hence upgrading the repeater was desirable. Maybe the fiber project got pushed forward with funding from the flooding?