What are the infrastructure costs?
A. The networking and telephone infrastructure share some equipment like fiber-optic cable and the conduit inside which it travels. Conduit is a container tube for cables of any sort. Cables need conduit because they can’t very well just lie in the ground or sit on the floors of the steam tunnels. Conduit keeps the cables protected, and makes it easy to thread new cables later. Cables and cable paths are upgraded from time to time, and new paths are laid for new construction, like the Studios in Escondido Village. Since expensive projects are typically amortized, i.e. gradually paid off over a long period of time, the University is still paying for network infrastructure projects completed long ago. This is pretty typical, and Student Housing does the same thing with its projects.
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