Thousands of miles of sewers lay deep beneath our feet. They're damp and smelly but actually quite a secure home for anything able to live there. In the States, there's talk of alligators. Over here, the new denizens are a whole lot more people-friendly and rather more staid.
What have been increasingly appearing in sewers are...
...fibre-optic cables, as H2O Networks reveals in this press release, Ask4 finds secure and environmentally friendly cabling network down in the sewers.
Internet service provider Ask4 is using Focuss - H20's Fibre Optical Cable Underground Sewer System - to carry its own secure IT and telecom network with, H20 reckons, "unlimited bandwidth".
The cables for such systems can be far more easily and cheaply put in place than is usual - laying cables in sewers avoids the huge amount of destructive and disruptive digging that would otherwise be needed.
H20's UK network plans (click for
larger image)
Sometimes, it's all too easy to miss the screamingly obvious even when it's right under your nose. So it's perhaps not surprising that something that's under our feet and as a very long way away from our noses has only recently started to take on a new role - so pats on the back to the lateral thinkers at H2O for this environmentally-friendly way of laying cables.
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