[82401] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "Leaky Coax" [was: London incidents]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Jul 15 05:29:28 2005
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: "'Thomas Kernen'" <tkernen@deckpoint.ch>,
"'Matt Ghali'" <matt@snark.net>
Cc: "'Adam Rothschild'" <asr+nanog@latency.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:29:02 +0100
In-reply-to: <42D77FF2.2010305@deckpoint.ch>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Orange used to supply something like this to put in your
building to improve coverage - worked reasonably well also.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Thomas Kernen
> Sent: 15 July 2005 10:21
> To: Matt Ghali
> Cc: Adam Rothschild; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: "Leaky Coax" [was: London incidents]
>
>
> 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
>
