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dark fiber

Fiber-optic data transfer cable that has been installed but is carrying far less traffic than it has the capacity for.
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M2 EQUITYBITES-August 23, 2019-Diode Ventures, Tenebris Fiber to co-develop long-haul dark fiber route in Virginia
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-August 23, 2019-Diode Ventures, Tenebris Fiber to co-develop long-haul dark fiber route in Virginia
6 May 2019 - Georgia, US-based regional telecommunications company Hargray Fiber has closed its previously announced acquisition of Florida, US-based Dark Fiber Systems (DFS), a dark fibre provider, to expand footprint in Southeast US, the company said.
In order to bolster both capacity and network diversity, the provider is expanding its long haul dark fiber network and upgrading optical wavelengths capacity across the U.S.
Dark fiber refers to spare fiber-optic cables, from which data flows in an out.
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III hopes that the Department of Information and Communications Technology's (DICT) partnership with private companies for the use of dark fiber in the National Broadband Plan will spur the country's trade and commerce industry.
A global webscale customer has selected Zayo Group for dark fiber services on its Reno to Umatilla route, which is currently under development.
(NYSE: ZAYO) for long haul and metro dark fiber. The dark fiber will connect the bank's new data centers with its existing fiber network.
Communications infrastructure services provider Zayo Group Holdings Inc (NYSE: ZAYO) announced on Friday that it has been chosen by a large data center provider for to deliver dark fiber to connect its East Coast data centers, providing low-latency infrastructure.
SaaS market acceleration platform Connected2Fiber has signed an agreement with Dark Fiber Systems, Inc.
Since the beginning of the 2016 funding year, E-rate applicants have been able to seek E-rate discounts for dark fiber (which, as the FCC has noted, can be an especially cost-effective option for some schools) self-provisioned fiber and lit fiber services that have previously been eligible for funding.