Fiber in Sewer, I own the former CityNet fiber net (Score 2, Interesting)

Nice to see this on Slashdot. I'm the guy that purchased much of the former CityNet/Universal Access fiber assets out of bankruptcy. I own the Albuquerque ring. In the 7 years since this network has been operational it has only had 1 single failure. That happened while the ring was in bankruptcy and no body was looking after it. When you compare this to the normal way people put fiber in the ground, its night and day. The local CLEC's here in ABQ have at least 1 to 3 fiber cuts per year in the downtown central business district, where the former CityNet network lives. Fiber in the sewer is highly viable and very low cost to deploy. In fact our company is in the process starting new construction in several different cities around the western US. We own the robots and are purchasing more robot assets to help build networks. With fiber to the home/curb/business/sink growing like crazy, this technology makes it very easy, low cost and QUICK to deploy. We hold patents or exclusive licenses to patents on the technologies involved. I'd post our website, but knowing what SlashDot would do to our poor widdle bandwidth, we don't want to get killed. :) If you want more information contact me via [e-mail]