Ethernet Via Electric Conduits

windows bios world writes "From a CNet article NYC businesses will be able to get internet access via ethernet routed through electrical conduits from a subsidiary of Con Edison. CEC is targeting business customers and telecommunications carriers with its PowerLan Ethernet services as part of a larger strategy to become the premier provider of high-bandwidth transport services for New York." Interesting that a non-telecommunications firm can parley a single asset (right-of-way in existing conduits in the crowded tunnels under Manhattan) into a business.

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Re:They don't use the actual power lines, do they?

[FuegoFuerte]

No... At least how I interpreted it (though they didn't say it straight out in the article), they're just going to run fiber through the same conduits they use for power. They're simply using the fact that they own conduit to try and compete with Verizon in a way which means they don't have to lease anything, anywhere, from Verizon.