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To: Teddy who wrote (1403)	11/28/2000 11:12:45 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Colleagues of mine were examining the use of sewers and abandoned subway tunnels as coaxial and fiber pathways going back to the late 1970s, when TimeWarner Cable of NY was known as Manhattan Cable. At the time, Cable TV companies were not shy about building and leasing private RF-based coaxial systems to corporations for data communications, through the use of cablemodems, ala FDM, starting out at 1.2 kb/s right on up through T3s. At that time a T3 had as much weight, relatively speaking, as an OC48 (48 T3s) or even an OC192 system does today. No one could ever use that much bandwidth ...