[Gllug] Broadand in London without phone land line

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 04 Nov, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> Regarding the Virgin fibre broadband service, what are the actual
> technicalities of it?
> I can't see them bringing a fibre up to every house (*) so what's the
> actual path for the data?
> 
> 
> (*) unless they use blown fibre up existing conduits. If I'm not wrong
> in the early days of
> broadband there were plans to use sewer pipes, which culd be a bit of
> a surprise if you were on
> the throne at the time.
> 
> Google confirms I am not making this up:
> http://www.computescotland.com/fibre-pipes-for-dundee-sewer-system-1346.php
> Good burghers of Dundee having broadband lavvies. Jings crivvens.
> 
> http://www.lightwaveonline.com/about-us/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/pulling-fiber-t
> hrough-city-sewers-bridges-last-mile-53465632.html
> Sewer crawling robots!

   A fibre duct is installed in the sewer that runs under my garage, I
suspect it was installed to connect an air quality monitoring unit parked
close to one of the access manholes about 100 metres from here, plus local
surveillance cameras.

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