[122314] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: dark fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jess Cohen)
Thu Feb 11 11:21:59 2010
From: Jess Cohen <jess@corenap.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:21:26 -0600
In-Reply-To: <40d8a95a1002110813g7c52c797r7b820c84bf1f6677@mail.gmail.com>
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GOOGLE: Dark fiber is optical fiber infrastructure (cabling and repeaters) =
that is currently in place but is not being used. Optical fiber conveys inf=
ormation in the form of light pulses so the "dark" means no light pulses ar=
e being sent. For example, some electric utilities have installed optical f=
iber 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 insta=
llations are unused, they are described as dark.
-----Original Message-----
From: Deric Kwok [mailto:deric.kwok2000@gmail.com]=20
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 dar=
k
> fiber and who own's it?
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