Dark Fiber

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Real Time Pricing Tool: https://www.fiberlinecommunications.c... • Dark fiber originated mostly as a result of the crash of the NASDAQ in March 2000. Prior to this crash, there was a period of extreme investment optimism. This period is now commonly referred to as the dot-com bubble. The stock market was skyrocketing, and investors were desperate to maximize their earnings on this potential - many by pouring money into highly speculative internet-based companies, commonly referred to as dot-coms. As a result, investment firms and major corporations received a windfall of added investment capital. • Because telecommunication and more specifically fiber, was considered a great investment in the future, a large portion of these funds was invested in the expansion of optical fiber routes nationwide to enhance telecommunication infrastructures. • Unfortunately, after the crash of 2000, these funds dried up. Many of the companies that had the rights to these fiber networks either went bankrupt, or, had to abandon their goals of utilizing this fiber. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of miles of unlit (dark) fiber. Dark fiber is optical fiber that is lying dormant in the ground. • • Now, telecom providers are gradually buying the rights to this fiber and lighting it to meet the needs of their customers. This presents great opportunities for these providers and their customers, who get great bargains for the unutilized networks. • • Until recently, it was common for businesses to pay an average of about $5000 a month for a 45 mbps (megabits per second) DS3 circuit. Now, due to utilization of formerly dark fiber, it is not unusual to find a 100 mbps fast E circuit for as little as $2500 per month. • Another advantage of the utilization of formerly dark fiber is that businesses that may have had to pay tens of thousands of dollars to have their buildings lit for fiber (because traditional fiber routes were remote from their buildings), now often discover that dark fiber might be passing within feet of their building. Because of this close proximity of dark fiber, many businesses can now have their buildings lit for fiber at no cost. • Another major advantage emerging from the utilization of dark fiber networks is bandwidth redundancy. Redundancy as it relates to telecommunications is the ability to receive services (telephone, internet, and/or networking) from more than one, unrelated source. Redundancy is extremely important to businesses that view their communication networks as mission critical. For many businesses, if telecom services are lost, business is virtually shut down. • Newly lit dark fiber can often be an excellent source of bandwidth redundancy because it often does not route through central telephone offices like traditional T1 and DS3 circuits. If all sources of business bandwidth run through the central office, if that central office goes down, all businesses served by this central office lose their ability to communicate. Because dark fiber routes often bypass central offices, they serve as an excellent source of redundancy if the central office goes down. Most major businesses seek telecom redundancy to prevent the huge losses that are incurred when telecom circuits go down. • To watch this video on YouTube visit: • Dark Fiber

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