wiredinUSA September 2011

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BT rolling out Olympic fiber-optics UK telecommunications giant BT has announced that it will roll out its fiber The village will house competing athletes during next summer’s Olympic Games and are set to become long-term residences following the completion of the games. In an interview with Computing magazine, business director for the London 2012 programme at BT Tim Boden claimed that residents will benefit from the games following its completion, “This means that when the residents take over, they will effectively have fiber-based broadband services. That’s a direct legacy of the games.” Last month, BT revealed that around 290,000 homes and businesses in 17 London exchange areas were set to gain access to fiber broadband services. cable broadband network to the Olympic Village in London.

A Swiss tightrope walker has scaled a 1km long cable-car cable, without a safety harness or balancing pole. The cable runs up to the summit of Bavaria’s Germany’s highest mountain, Zugspitze. It took Freddy Nock one hour and 20 minutes to walk along the two-inch thick cable, which was close to the top of 9,000 foot tall mountain. After the walk, Nock was reported as saying, “I cannot say that I will again attempt such a walk. I have it behind me and I don’t want to do it again. Not without a balancing pole.” He is submitting his tightrope walk to the Guinness Book of Records as the longest and highest wire walk above sea level without a balancing pole. In the very near future, Nock is to attempt the longest cable crossing with a bike and try walking the longest and highest rope down a valley. Record cable crossing

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