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August 7, 2003

Broadband heads to Seattle's sewers

  • Maryland company pays city to run fiber in its sewer lines to connect 'dark' buildings to the Internet.
  • By JOE NABBEFELD
    Journal Real Estate Editor

    installing fiber optic cables
    Graphics courtesy of CityNet Telecommunications
    CityNet's process for installing fiber optic cables in sewer lines. Click here for a larger picture.

    A new kind of mechanical rat named Sam will soon creep about in sewer lines underneath downtown Seattle.


     
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