"Leaky Coax" [was: London incidents]

Fri Jul 15 09:29:02 UTC 2005

Orange used to supply something like this to put in your
building to improve coverage - worked reasonably well also. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Thomas Kernen
> Sent: 15 July 2005 10:21
> To: Matt Ghali
> Cc: Adam Rothschild; nanog at 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
> 