[82400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leaky Coax" [was: London incidents]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Kernen)
Fri Jul 15 05:21:23 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:20:50 +0200
From: Thomas Kernen <tkernen@deckpoint.ch>
To: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
Cc: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0507141046020.25263@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Matt Ghali wrote:
> 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
It works great for in-building Wifi too if you do the proper engineering.
Thomas
