Archived Articles

Date
Publication
Article Title

June 9, 2003
Cable World
Urban Myth via Concast: Robots in the Sewers of San Francisco
May 19-25, 2003
Indianapolis Business Journal
Downtown gains fiber-optic network
May 2002
Ultimate Real Robots
Pipe Crawling Bots
February 2002
PHONE +
ADCos Could Crack Open Local Phone Market Once and for All
October 8, 2001
Fiber Optics News
CityNet Finally Runs the Last Mile
October 2, 2001
The Washington Post - WASHTECH
CityNet Ready to Expand to Dallas and Pittsburgh
September 2001
Business Forward
I, Robot
August 20, 2001
Washington TECHWAY
The money winners
July 2001
Fortune
Fiber-Laying Robots
July 2001
FiberOptics Product News
A New Avenue for Deploying Last-Mile Fiberoptics
May 29, 2001
Business 2.0
A New Way to Lay Pipe
April 10, 2001
The Washington Post
CityNet Wins $275 Million in Funding
April 2, 2001
Chicago Tribune
Robot Lays Conduit Cable in City's Sewer Pipes
April 2001
WIRED
Plumbers Crack the Last Mile
March 27, 2001
MIT Technology Review
Robotics: They Brave the City's Bowels to Bring You Bandwidth
March 8, 2001
The New York Times
Wiring the City: Humans Won't Do
March 2001
Outside Plant
Is Fiber Going Down the Sewer?
March 4, 2001
The Jerusalem Post - Internet Edition
An Underground Innovation
February 20, 2001
The Albuquerque Tribune
SAM Enters Sewers to Run Fiber-Optic Lines
February 2001
LIGHTWAVE
Pulling fiber through city sewers bridges "last mile"
February 01
GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY
SAM'S IN THE SEWERS
February 7, 2001
The Washington Times
District considers robot cable runners....
February 5, 2001
CMP's TechWeb
CityNet Makes Sewer Lines a Broadband Path
February 5, 2001
teledotcom
This Fiber Optic Plan's All Wet --
January 2001
UrbanLand Developments
Walking the Last Mile
January 22, 2001
Interactive Week
Plumbing for Profit
January 7, 2001
Ireland on Sunday
How to speed up your movements
January 1-2, 2001
THE IRISH TIMES
Dublin sewers may carry fibre optic network
December 2000
Telecom BUSINESS
SAM I Am
December 11, 2000
Washington Techway
Sewer moles to install fiber networks
December 1, 2000
INFO WORLD
Sewer tunnels pull duty as broadband conduit
December 1-7, 2000
Washington Business Journal
How to get more fiber
November 30, 2000
Light Reading
Startup Heads for Sewers
November 30, 2000
E PRAIRIE
Robots to Lay Fiber Optics in Chicago's Sewers
November 30, 2000
The Charlotte Observer
Robot Gets Down, Dirty for Technology
November 27, 2000
USA TODAY
Cable-through-sewer strategy hints of sweet smell of success
November 21, 2000
Wall Street Journal
Robot Snakes Through City Sewers, Bringing Fiber-Optic Cable to Users
November 8, 2000
The Washington Post
Wiring City Streets, Via the Sewers
November 1, 2000
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Omaha Goes Broadband
October 30, 2000
Albuquerque Journal
City May Buy a Handy, Dandy Sewer "Mole"
October 17, 2000
Omaha World-Herald
Sewer Robot Will Perform Dirty Work for Internet Age

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