Orange used to supply something like this to put in your building to improve coverage - worked reasonably well also.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Kernen Sent: 15 July 2005 10:21 To: Matt Ghali Cc: Adam Rothschild; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: "Leaky Coax" [was: London incidents]
Matt Ghali wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Adam Rothschild wrote:
As I understand it, cellular service in the tunnels is provided by cells co-located in the Weehawken, NJ and New York City, NY vent buildings, with "leaky coax" cable shared by all carriers running inside the tubes.
I was intrigued by the concept, and did a bit of googling. I managed to dig up a fascinating article on the applications for "leaky coax" antennas, in the tunnels we are discussing, to boot!
http://wirelessreview.com/mag/wireless_trouble_tunnels/
matto
It works great for in-building Wifi too if you do the proper engineering.
Thomas