[Vinnie]

Hasn't the Chicoms installed a fiber optic system? I'm sure I read that. EMP won't affect fiber.

[Poohbah]

EMP won't affect the fiber itself, just the routers and switches that use the fiber.

However, this story ignores the biggest problem: EMP effects realiably lethal to electronics are also going to be reliably lethal to a large part of the civilian population in the immediate area (imagine sticking your head in a microwave oven, jimmying the safety interlock, and turning the thing on at full power). And you can write off anyone with a pacemaker, as well.

[ASA Vet]

EMP won't affect fiber

True, but every fiber must terminate in some electronic device.

[dennisw]

Hasn't the Chicoms installed a fiber optic system? I'm sure I read that. EMP won't affect fiber.

All I know is the Chinese laying/engineering fiber optics to connect radars, anti-aircraft missile batteries and their command/control centers. A few of these EMP blasts would fry the electronics in all three places. So the fiber optic connects will be irrelevant.

 

[AFreeBird]

Hasn't the Chicoms installed a fiber optic system? I'm sure I read that. EMP won't affect fiber.

No, just the devices on either end of the fiber.

[AdA$tra]

EMP won't affect fiber.

Just everything plugged into it!

[desertcry]

You will still need transistors, and micro chips to generate, and transmit any signal through fiber optics.

[eno_]

There are no all-optical communictaions systems. The fiber will be so much useless glass after the head-end lasers and associated electronics are fried.