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"Mike" == Mike Andrews writes:

[... Robert Casey talks about fiber and railroad right-of-ways ...]

Mike An increasing amount of fiber is being buried on (or under)
Mike highway right-of-way. I know; I work for a state department of
Mike transportation, and we worked deals to get some very nice free
Mike bandwidth out of the fibers along some Interstates. I expect
Mike we'll be able to do the same for fibers buried along federal and
Mike state highways, once the carriers recover from the dot-bomb and
Mike start building bandwidth out again.

This was done five or ten years ago in New York -- I worked at
the place that managed the fiber for the state. The fiber was laid
along the NYS Thruway, which passes through the nine largest cities in
NY and within some short number of miles of a large percentage of the
state population. Much of that fiber was dark last I heard.

The idea of buried fiber along every two-lane road in the country may
be a fantasy, but laying cable along every Interstate is certainly
doable with the resources available. Of course, who will run this
true "information superhighway" is the next debate...

Mike -- Mike Andrews Tired old sysadmin

Jack.
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Jack Twilley
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