Sewers bring high speed broadband to you
Recently, I read a news article that surprise me. High speed broadband comes from underground via the sewers? A company from UK, H2O Networks has been in negotiations with water firms for the last five years and began rolling out its fibre-via-sewers network known as FS Focus System (Fibre Optical Cable Underground Sewer System) in 2003. Universities in UK like Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Bournemouth are enjoying high speed fibre connections with speeds of up to 20Gbps while council offices around the UK are also benefiting from this high speed broadband. H2O Networks plan to roll out its Focus next month to move to a new phase which could see it supplying high speed fibre networks to businesses and consumers around the UK.
Using the sewers for fibre is not new. Country like Japan has a fairly widespread sewer-based fibre networks. Laying fibre through sewers is an alternative good way to avoid digging up the road. The roll out of fibre through sewers will shorten the deployment time. There is also a huge cost of reduction in benefits. With this benefits, I hope consumer will get cheaper broadband.
Can Malaysia Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides cheaper and high speed broadband through sewers?
Source: H2O Networks Dark Fibre Solutions | BBC NEWS - Technology
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December 11th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Hmmm, sound like last time where google come out with the jokes where you can dump the cable or something into your toilet bowl and flush it, then there will some engineer at below the pipes to get the cable and get it fixed. Then you can online, google really no jokes man.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Dude…Have you seen our sewers? Apparently the French postal system works via their sewers..and its very good!! IF something were to emerge here it would mean totally tearing up our sewers and re-building it!! Sometimes its good to have a blueprint before building something..In our case, build first….talk later!! Now you know y lrt’s could never fully be under ground!
Cause if it did, it be called the Longkang Rubbish Train 
December 13th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
simon, I know about that joke. http://www.google.com/tisp/
abi, seriously I haven’t seen our sewers and I know the “build first…talk later” system works,
December 21st, 2007 at 10:23 am
Penangfon are laying their fiber thought drain :Þ
too bad, if some one know that paip is fiber and sabotage it… hehe~ i cant imagine what will happen
source:
http://blog.icalvyn.com/penangfon-fiber-optic/
December 21st, 2007 at 11:53 pm
iCalvyn, thats a poor management of laying fiber cables. With this, they can provide cheap broadband to Malaysia consumer,
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
PenangFon has been the best service I’ve used so far.
Bro, our project…hee heee