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More to the point, who owns them now and can we pull fibre through them?
by woleium 3y ago
More to the point, who owns them now and can we pull fibre through them?
- adolph 3y agoMaybe just fill a tube container with nvme and have a few USB connected channels on the end, make a little bot to plug it into compute for each step of a processing pipeline. If you move 10T in 30s that’s like 300G/s?
- woodruffw 3y agoOnly fragments exist; they don't form complete lines anymore. (Besides, these are 100+ year old iron tubes; there are much better things to run fiber through. NYC does not have a shortage of buried, half-forgotten infrastructure.)
- elahd 3y agoVerizon, actually. Not the mail tubes specifically, but they own Empire City Subway, a 130 year old company rents out sub-street conduit for telecom. Their tubes are visible when streets are dug up for construction. https://www.empirecitysubway.com/ https://www.empirecitysubway.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_City_Subway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_City_Subway Looks like their lowest rate (<=2.5" conduit) is $3,660/mile/yr, not including installation, permitting, and city franchising fees. Still interested?
- fragmede 3y agoTo be able to charge business customers $500-$1500+/month for 10-gig and run an IPX? Sounds cheap!