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A telco was established in the UK by the National Grid during the 1990s using the high voltage distribution network as the backbone, and wrapping fibre around t
by timthorn 6y ago
A telco was established in the UK by the National Grid during the 1990s using the high voltage distribution network as the backbone, and wrapping fibre around the neutral conductor. They called it Energis, and it had a great slogan at one point: "dial on the pylon"
IIRC after a while they moved to integrating the fibre bundle in the neutral conductor cable.
- circlefavshape 6y agoI interviewed for a job with people doing this in Swindon (England) in 1994-ish
- martyvis 6y agoIn the early 2000s I was on a project that was planning on using the fibre that was embedded in the neutral conductor in the local grid here in eastern Australia. It was used for telemetry and power control, but they thought they could sell access to ISPs and the like. I don't think it ended up going beyond a few pilot deployments and then our National Broadband Network got the go-ahead