[82390] in North American Network Operators' Group
"Leaky Coax" [was: London incidents]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Thu Jul 14 13:49:23 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050712175122.GA50920@latency.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Adam Rothschild wrote:
As I understand it, cellular service in the tunnels is provided by
cells co-located in the Weehawken, NJ and New York City, NY vent
buildings, with "leaky coax" cable shared by all carriers running
inside the tubes.
I was intrigued by the concept, and did a bit of googling. I managed
to dig up a fascinating article on the applications for "leaky coax"
antennas, in the tunnels we are discussing, to boot!
http://wirelessreview.com/mag/wireless_trouble_tunnels/
matto
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