Broadband Through Sewers

Thursday, February 5, 2004

I'm surprised this idea hasn't caught on sooner. Sewers are a natural place to run infrastructure. Sure, installing the cables would be kinda shitty (pun intended), but isn't that why a cabling installer's natural tendancy is to run cables through ventilation shafts? Infrastructure costs would plummet, and our streets wouldn't have to be dug up so much.

4 Comments

There's actually a company that manufactures robots to do this exact work ! I don't remember their name though =(

Udi Dahan - The Software Simplist - Thursday, February 5, 2004 10:47:00 PM
Do you think cable shileding will have to be changed to handle any of the toxic stuff that may or may not be able to dissole through current levels of shielding if left in constant contact?

Doug Thews - Friday, February 6, 2004 5:02:00 AM
I would think that it would be run through sealed metal conduits fastened to the ceiling of the pipes one way or another.

Robert McLaws - Friday, February 6, 2004 5:10:00 AM
OK, I can see that. Interesting idea.

Doug Thews - Friday, February 6, 2004 11:46:00 PM

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