Fibre Watch: Pipe dreams
Mar 31, 2011
As concerns about the costs, benefits (or lack thereof), timeframes and political posturing associated with the UFB initiative rumble on, one company has been making a splash with a somewhat novel proposal for getting the network built on the cheap.
UK-based i3 is in the business of running fibre through existing water and sewerage infrastructure to cut the costs associated with trenching, typically a significant proportion of the budget for any UFB-type rollout.
Technology
i3 Group is the world’s leading technology company in fibre cable deployment methodology. i3 Group’s innovative technologies and methodologies allow the cost of building fibre networks to be reduced by up to 70%. Equally important is the reduction in road digging, a high traffic disruptive approach, which our unique system drastically reduces by over 60%. Find out more