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4 年 ago

in The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » So you say nothing has changed in the telecom world? on The Technology Liberation Front
Interestingly power companies have been working to leverage their Right of Way (ROW) toward data for a long time.

In 1999, AEP replaced the lightning arrestor wires on the top of many power towers with dark fiber wrapped in a conductor. It still protects the power lines from lightning - but it can also carry fiber optic data.

Shortly thereafter AEP claimed one of the largest dark fiber networks in the country.

It sure would be nice to solve the "last mile" problem if a massive fiber optic infrastructure were able to travel over BPL from the substation to the home for example.

It'd also be one less thing to plug-in. And to get an Internet connection, one need only find a power plug.

4 年 ago

in The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » The Internet Gets Smaller on The Technology Liberation Front
I think that every once in a while, Wired likes to try to tell everyone how things are going to be. Then any time they see Internet spelled in lower case, they can claim responsibility and feel important - despite the fact that none of my friends who subscribed to wired in 1996 do today.
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