Built after a string of cholera epidemics in the 19th century by Joseph Bazalgette, an engineer in the heroic Victorian mould, the capital's 14, 000-mile sewer network was a triumph of engineering and a victory for public health.

ECONOMIST: The capital's overflowing drains are due for a big upgrade

Nortel claims its Shasta 5000 BSN for aggregated DSL or cable offers services such as network-based firewalls, virtual private networking, and traffic engineering for several thousand subscribers over a single chassis.

CNN: Nortel targets new market for broadband

Earlier, train services on the Southern Rail network were severely disrupted out of Brighton due to over-running engineering works.

BBC: Sussex snow and ice causes disruption

Sun itself hosts Network.com, a pay-per-use online service offering mathematical and engineering applications launched last March and hosted on what the company calls the Sun Grid.

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