Fast broadband through the sewers

[gkd_uk]

While politicians and network providers work out how they can afford to provide the UK with a network capable of delivering super-fast broadband speeds, one company is already doing it - via the sewers.

H20 networks has been in negotiations with water firms for the last five years and began rolling out its fibre-via-sewers network - known as Focus (Fibre Optical Cable Underground Sewer) in 2003.

Universities in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Bournemouth are enjoying high-speed fibre connections with speeds of up to 20Gbps (gigabits per second), while council offices around the UK are also benefiting from super-fast broadband.

Next month it plans to move to a new phase of its roll-out which could see it provide fibre networks to businesses and consumers around the UK.

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[espmartin]

Fiber optic broadband, now that's what I want to be surfing on!

Off Topic:
:There's a killer joke in this, I'm just waiting for someone to post it:

Here's Google's joke on this: Welcome to Google TiSP
And their instruction manual: How TiSP Works
And their "404 Server Error" (read the whole thing!): 404 Not Found

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines