Potential Broadband explosion!

crawler

Well...pardon the pun and all that but interesting reading here :-

"A Southern California company called Nethercomm came up with some nifty science for sending broadband signals over the last mile through natural gas lines, but U.S. gas companies aren't buying in.

With U.S. broadband prices still high relative to the rest of the world and the cable-telco duopoly still dominating the access network, alternate routes into the home are of great importance to equipment makers, investors, and consumers. Recent Supreme Court and FCC decisions have largely freed the cable and phone companies from sharing broadband facilities with competing providers"

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=104001&WT.svl=news1_1

Sponge Bob

“repurposed” ultra-wideband

Very interesting

Of course once you put Comreg in charge of our gas pipes they would define a "Functional Gas Supply" down to enough gas to supply 1.2kbits of data ...remodulated with great difficulty across a few molecules of butane here and there .

Either that or they would somehow charge the highest rental on the entire planet for what is essentially an empty pipe .

I get all shivery (brRRRRRrrr) just thinking about it

watty

A little robot crawling up the existing sewers with fiber is also being used some places.

Imagine the regulation issues....

Or if the robot takes a wrong turn.

cgarvey

And have pity for the poor guy terminating the fiber.

The regulation issues could be sorted in one swoop, if there was enough pressure.

crawler

watty wrote:

A little robot crawling up the existing sewers with fiber is also being used some places.

Imagine the regulation issues....

Or if the robot takes a wrong turn.

"Smelly fibre" or "Dirty fibre" as it is known in the industry....it does work and with some of the new narrow bore technology you could in theory (not yet though) bring it in through the existing standard narrow bore duct(s) to the home

Wrong turns avoided by the GPS devices strapped to Mr Robots back.

the BIG issue is with the cladding/shielding used in the Sewers - no matter how fat/strong they make it the rats seem to get bigger and bigger, with bigger teeth! (For the avoidance of all doubt, rats with teeth is in NO way a reference to any other operator, however I can see where this could go!)

Blaster99

GPS works underground?

crawler

Mr Robot is actually attached to an umbilical cord type line (for power, positioning and recovery - this is attached to the back of the robot - sorry for not making it clear) back to a central control point managed by an operator...the rest, as they say, is history...