p2pnet.net News:- It sounds cool, and it is – the New York City Dark Fiber Network.

Columbia University and other New York City research, education and medical institutions, now have state-of-the-art links to each other and to the Net and Internet 2 through Columbia’s new, high-speed network.

The network is called ‘dark fiber’ because no telecommunications carrier is ‘lighting’ it with its equipment, says Columbia News.

Instead, Columbia ‘lights’ its fiber strands with its own equipment, “just as it does for on- and near-campus fiber cables”.

“At Columbia, the new technology essentially doubles the capacity of its commercial Internet service from 155 Mbps (megabits per second) to 300 Mbps; enhances its flexibility in future purchasing of networking technology; and affords greater security of network connections in the event of damage to critical infrastructure,” says Columbia News, adding that there’s also a cost benefit.

"Owning the fiber strands will allow us to choose and afford new network technologies as they develop, rather than wait for, and then pay someone else for better networks," says Alan Crosswell, director of Columbia’s Network and Computing Systems.

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See:-
unveiled - Dark Fiber Technology Creates Faster Networking, Columbia News, December 8, 2004

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