Normally when you think of fiber and sewers, a different, smellier thing comes to mind than broadband internet access. Hay-oh! Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
Bournemouth, UK, which is full of old people — Pem Charnley of EcoWorldly says that a common joke is “that the shop windows are all fitted with bi-focals to allow passers-by to ascertain what lies within” — will be running fiber-optic cabling through the town’s sewer system instead of digging shallow trenches in the ground.
That’s not a bad idea at all and I’m wondering why this hasn’t been done before or if it has, in fact, been done in other places. It’d make the system much easier to maintain.
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ewww! Forget it! I don’t want my internet running through the sewers! My downloads are all going to smell like poop! I’m Brian Fellow!
That’s an awesome way to deploy this kind of stuff, though I’d hate to be the guy that has to do the tech work down there!
why isn’t it done more often? Rats… they can/will chew on most things including expensive fiber optics.
In addition to this, C4L.co.uk will be running 100 Gbps of connectivity into Bournemouth prior to this service going live. We have plans to increase this to 800 Gbps when required (enough to run 400,000 homes on 100Mbps 50:1 ratio) which will significantly increase connectivity in Bournemouth and the local area. The core of this service will be at our Bournemouth data centre which will be launched later in the year. Here we are running the connectivity down to enable the most cost effective line solutions in time for the release of pricing. Circuits will be available back to London for any ISP’s wishing to use their own bandwidth/networks. We will also be offering 100Mbps, 1000Mbps and 10GigE 1:1 to premises for Business. More details will be provided soon.
http://www.c4l.co.uk