[191292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical Wave Providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Thu Sep 1 11:40:19 2016
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From: Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com>
To: Jay Hanke <jayhanke@gmail.com>, "tim@29lagrange.com" <tim@29lagrange.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 15:40:06 +0000
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It is a good point about the conduit diversity. Lots of guys in the Wiltel =
conduit, for example. Right now there are a lot of new regional fiber optic=
networks and also some new dark fiber networks (one is connecting all the =
Trans-Atlantic landing stations and telecom hotels in New Jersey). There ar=
e always new networks emerging offer lower latency, new physical diversity =
or just new interesting routes.
- R.
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Jay Hanke <jayhanke@gmai=
l.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 4:42 PM
To: tim@29lagrange.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Optical Wave Providers
There are lots of national carriers in the US. A much smaller number
of those carriers actually own the fiber cables. There are a handful
(Zayo, Level3, CenturyLink, Windstream, Earthlink, Verizon) that have
very large national, or semi-national foot prints.
The carriers frequently trade and lease strands of fiber from each
other to create a national network. Be careful on the commodity routes
diversity wise. There are a lot of places with 20+ carriers in the
same cable (or duct) each claiming to own the route.
Jay
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 6:08 PM, <tim@29lagrange.com> wrote:
> I have been looking at optical wave carriers for some long haul 1G/10G
> across the US. All to major cities and well known POP's.
> I am finding that there are not a lot of carriers who are offering wave
> services, usually just ethernet/MPLS.
> Particularly across the North west.
> Can someone shed some light on who some of the bigger carriers are and an=
y
> challenges you have encountered with services like this?
> Who actually owns the fiber across the US?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
