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Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » The Internet Gets Smaller

Neb Okla — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:46:35 -0000

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.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » So you say nothing has changed in the telecom world?

Neb Okla — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:23:39 -0000

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.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » So you say nothing has changed in the telecom world?

Neb Okla — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:24:42 -0000

Oh, here is a photo of an AEP dark fiber installation in 1999.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » So you say nothing has changed in the telecom world?

Neb Okla — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:25:33 -0000

Um, oops. Doesn't look like this accepts HTML so for the time being I'll just put the URL in my message:

http://groups.msn.com/MarkNoblesPhotos/family.m...