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BT rolling out Olympic
fiber-optics
UK telecommunications giant BT
has announced that it will roll out its fiber
cable broadband network to
the Olympic Village in London.
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.
EUROPE NEWS
wiredInUSA - September 2011
wiredInUSA - September 2011
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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
