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June 19, 2003

Put a little fiber in your sewer's diet

  • Pilot project will run fiber-optic cable for high-speed Internet through San Francisco sewers.
  • By LISA LANNIGAN
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Pictures courtesy of CableRunner North America
    CableRunner's Flexible System fiber optic infrastructure installed along the crown of a non-man accessible sewer pipe using FiberCop robotic technology.

    When the European city of Vienna developed technology to run fiber-optic cables for high-speed Internet access through its sewers, the city decided it was too good to keep a secret.


     
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