Sewerage Broadband wtf

[HavocXphere]

Bournemouth has become the first town in the UK to get super-fast internet connections - via the sewerage system.

More than 88,000 homes and businesses in the Dorset town will benefit from internet speeds up to 100Mbps under the scheme, considerably faster than consumer broadband speeds on the market.

Fibre firm H2O Networks Ltd is funding the £30m project.

It will lay its special cables through the sewerage system over the next six months.

Who the hell puts the cables there? Whoever it is, I hope his pay is good.

 

[hj2k_x]

LOL. look at those speeds though!

 

[werner]

it's a little robot like thingy that strings the cables through...i'll see if i can find a picture of it.

 

[qinglung]

Cables in the sewarage system... a possible detterent for would-be thieves?

 

[mercurial]

There was a google hoax like this a while back. I think it was an April fools joke a few years ago.

 

[HavocXphere]

it's a little robot like thingy that strings the cables through...i'll see if i can find a picture of it.

I know about those. A friend of mine built one of them for some company. But they don't work for pulling thick&heavy cables afaik (and fiber+protection is a fairly large cable).

 

[LabAnimal]

*eish* crappy job!

 

[Road runner]

"The cable guys" clean & recondition the walls of the sewer pipes, then the robot lays stainless steel "rings" inside the pipe. It pulls a conduit through that clips onto the ring, and the fiber runs inside that. It is a last mile solution.

 

[pkid]

Not a bad idea. No need to dig up the road. None of this shallow cable stuff where everyone worries that the cable will be cut the first time the muncipality retars the road. Must be quicker than having to dig up the ground...

 

[mercurial]

http://hubpages.com/hub/Googles_April_Fool_Prank

 

[reech]

This is no hoax - it also makes a lot of sense - no digging, all homes are already serviced...why not run fibre through the sewers?

 

[Just_Ice]

Its a great idea I would just hate to be the guy that has to go down there!

 

[LazyLion]

sounds like a whole lot of Hoooey to me!