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So what of Dark Fibre?
Talkback There are apparently miles and miles of 'dark fibre' this is fibre-optic cable that has been laid but not 'lit' or made active. Dark Fibre comes from telco's who built excess capacity into their networks because of the original costs involves of...
[January 14, 2009, 15:02]
Cisco outlines next web revolution
News For developing nations to improve life, they will need networks — Cisco's networks, he hopes, whether it's dark fibre or wireless. Investment occurs in different ways and sometimes people get caught up in making money and build out business models...
[September 19, 2007, 9:41]
Google: Time for world domination?
News They've been buying dark fibre for a good five years. For more, click here.also known as dark fibre, seems to support Arnold's theory. Dark fibre will enable greater dependency on what I call virtual applications," he said.
[September 21, 2005, 17:40]
Norfolk community broadband suffers from BT delays
News WNCB's ordered two links through PSINet -- a 2 Megabit per second (Mbps) fibre connection to its main site at the village of Dersingham, and a 1Mbps link between Dersingham and the coastal resort of Hunstanton.
[January 5, 2004, 12:35]
Dark side to the story
Talkback Heap of crap: BT, before it was privatised, launched a Government funded overhaul to provide a 'dark fibre' backbone up and down the fair land of Albion. BT thusly absorbed 'dark funding' , privatised itself on the proceeds, and kept broadband...
[October 9, 2009, 18:09]
Sewer system to provide student broadband
News The dark fibre sewer connection will provide broadband at the university's Hillhead student village halls of residence by replacing an existing microwave link between the main campus and the village. The University of Aberdeen is using the...
[August 20, 2007, 16:48]
Brits Are Broadband Speed Junkies
Blog Comment Agreed, we need to bring out the Dark Fibre in a hurry. Regardless of the relatively bad broadband services we apparently have in the UK (at least compared to most of the developed world), speed is obviously a priority for a vast majority of users.
[April 28, 2008, 15:34]
Sprint rejoins race in Europe and Asia
News Sprint apparently plans to lease some of this "dark fibre" -- an industry term for fibre-optic cable that is already built but not being used -- and build Internet relay devices on top of that, the analysts said.
[February 7, 2001, 7:50]
The battles of community broadband
News Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, it is hatching plans to lay out its own state-of-the-art fibre-optic broadband network. Julien, a member of Lafayette Coming Together, a citizens group supporting the fibre network.
[May 9, 2005, 18:35]
Google to enter VoIP arena?
News Among the requirements for the job are "Negotiation and purchasing of IP transit services.negotiation of partnerships with internet exchanges, regional peering providers, and paid peering arrangements with major carriers" and "Identification...
[January 24, 2005, 13:50]
Out in the boonies
Talkback I look forward to hearing more about the mysterious dark fibre cable. What a wonderful expression - 'out in the boonies' - I've never heard it before, but I knew exactly what you meant! Yes indeed, for our sins, we do live out in the boonies, which...
[January 14, 2009, 13:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And that was just one story this week: those ever-active Reuters chaps spotted another Googlehire story, this time for someone who knows the black art of dark fibre negotiation. Tuesday 25/1/2005 Poor old Google.
[January 28, 2005, 17:30]
Echelon: How it works
News These can be carried on radio or on copper or fibre cables: with few exceptions, wireless signals can be best intercepted remotely while cables need a physical tap. It's known to use IP and very strong encryption, with dedicated fibre and satellite...
[June 29, 2000, 11:09]
Mobile phones going underground
News Tube bosses are considering auctioning off licences to provide mobile phone services after the Underground system has been fitted with a new fibre optic communications network in just over a year's time.
[October 17, 2000, 10:34]
Grid computing to solve Big Bang queries?
News Network bandwidth will also be key — at the moment it has a 2Gbps dedicated link to CERN — the same amount of bandwidth RAL uses for all the rest of its Internet traffic — and the plan is to build a dedicated fibre-optic network between the sites.
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
EMC, Dell team up on new storage system
News It uses a 2-gigabit Fibre Channel connection to send and receive data. I think Dell is very much of a dark horse in this market, in that it could be a strong and influential player because of the breadth of its coverage and strength in Windows...
[August 12, 2002, 7:59]
Sun creates server safety zones
News Current fibre connections only allow computers in a cluster to be separated by six miles. In the late 1990s, companies planted miles of fibre-optic cable into the ground in Europe and North America. In Enterprise Continuity, customers will...
[October 29, 2002, 10:48]
Maps show UK fibre rollout plans
News The red patches show the areas where BT intends to roll out fibre access by the end of 2012. This Point Topic map shows the fibre-access deployments to which BT has committed itself. According to these predictions, 7.4 percent of the UK population...
[November 12, 2009, 15:20]
Dark side to the story
Talkback Virgin currently supply fibre to 13 million homes to put BT's non-news press release into context. We've had fibre comms technology since the Sixties. And 35 per cent of homes still don't have broadband.
[October 10, 2009, 8:21]
UK city to get fibre via sewers 'within two years'
News The UK could have its first city with complete fibre connectivity from cables laid through sewers in the next two years. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday, networking firm H2O says its method of running fibre through sewers means it can deploy...
[January 23, 2008, 15:18]
