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To: Teddy who wrote (1391)	4/13/2000 11:31:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

Teddy, Just as an oh btw: Ever since the early Eighties, when Citibank first ran their multimode up the Lexington Avenue IRT Subway line between Wall Street and Park Avenue, and when Merrill Lynch Telecommunications (which would one day later become TCG) blanketed downtown Manhattan with their early generation stepped index multimode stuff to the AMEX and NYSE exchanges and SIAC... I've been listening to stories by various venture folks about how they were going to take advantage of the sewers in NY City. It never happens, except in some rare off-beat ways. One classic example that I am aware of where some "abandoned" sewer lines were used was about sixteen years ago, when Teleport ran one of their early singlemode routes over the Bayonne Bridge which connects NJ with Staten Island, requiring traversing some shoreline properties through pipelines on the New Jersey side that were, in fact, old, abandoned sewer lines. As an aside, the alternate route to the Staten Island Teleport site from New Jersey was via the Gothels Bridge. Actually, the two routes from the downtown NY City World Trade Center location to Staten Island were about as non-intuitive as you can get. In order to reach SI, both routes first went into Jersey through both one of the Port Authority's PATH Tubes and the Holland Tunnel, and then circuitously routed back to S.I. via the two bridges. Guess who found a common cross-over point between those routes that almost turned out to be a show stopper for a very large optical fiber service (OFS) [read: IRU] order ;-) I have a sneaking suspicion that someone is about to begin using sewer pipes and water mains in NY City, possibly along with some other utility mains that have heretofore been untapped for fiber purposes. Just a hunch. The response you received from Paris was very interesting, by the way. Let us know when the tour is set up, ok? FAC