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.

Comments

Security Risk?

[Qender]

I don't remember where but in the past I read something about a city that tried something like this till they discovered that faint blinking in the city's streetlamps was enough needed to snoop on the data being transferred through it.

Re:sewer lines too

[spongman]

man... and i was just going to post a joke about getting my toilet connected to the internet, too.

We need more crap on the internet.

Oh, wait...

Re:sewer lines too

[jrp2]

man... and i was just going to post a joke about getting my toilet connected to the internet, too.

Hehe. Back when I was working at U.S.Robotics we had an April Fools press release describing our new "sewer modem" that used sewers as a transmission medium. It even went down to detail as to how we detected and overcame "noise" such as a toilet flushing. It was too funny, too bad I don't still have a copy to share.