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RE: dark fiber
From: Jess Cohen <jess () corenap com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:21:26 -0600
GOOGLE: Dark fiber is optical fiber infrastructure (cabling and repeaters) that is currently in place but is not being used. Optical fiber conveys information in the form of light pulses so the "dark" means no light pulses are being sent. For example, some electric utilities have installed optical fiber cable where they already have power lines installed in the expectation that they can lease the infrastructure to telephone or cable TV companies or use it to interconnect their own offices. To the extent that these installations are unused, they are described as dark. -----Original Message----- From: Deric Kwok [mailto:deric.kwok2000 () gmail com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:14 AM To: James Jones Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: dark fiber Can I have question? What is dark fiber? Thank you On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:08 PM, James Jones <james () freedomnet co nz> wrote:
I am doing some research....is there a way to find out where there is dark fiber and who own's it?
Current thread:
- Re: Google to offer fiber to end users, (continued)
- Re: Google to offer fiber to end users Anton Kapela (Feb 13)
- Re: Google to offer fiber to end users Joel Jaeggli (Feb 11)
- RE: Google to offer fiber to end users David Hubbard (Feb 10)
- dark fiber James Jones (Feb 10)
- Re: dark fiber Charles N Wyble (Feb 10)
- Re: dark fiber Jared Mauch (Feb 10)
- Re: dark fiber James Jones (Feb 10)
- Re: dark fiber Martin Hannigan (Feb 10)
- Re: dark fiber Deric Kwok (Feb 11)
- Re: dark fiber Craig Vuljanic (Feb 11)
- RE: dark fiber Jess Cohen (Feb 11)
- Re: dark fiber steve pirk [egrep] (Feb 11)
- dark fiber James Jones (Feb 10)
- Re: Google to offer fiber to end users Antonio Querubin (Feb 10)