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Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels

By Danny Crichton FromTechCrunch Never ask a wireless engineer working on the NYC subway system “What can go wrong?” Flooding, ice, brake dust, and power outages relentlessly attack the network components. Rats — many, many rats — can eat power…