Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!beckman
From: beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: tapping into a fiber optic cable
Message-ID: <46249@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 31 May 90 03:15:48 GMT
Reply-To: beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Lines: 8

Can a fiber optic cable be "tapped" into without disturbing the data
being transmitted?  I would like to run some fiber optic cable through
some expensive equipment to prevent theft.  Loss of the signal would
mean the cable has been cut, and an alarm would sound.  A simple
copper wire threaded through equipment could be easily spliced around.
Could a fiber optic cable be similarly bypassed?  How easily?  -Pete

beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu