Today, most of these cables sit dormant. They’re called “dark fiber,” because no electricity sparkles along their lengths. The project began with the research group, led by the geophysicist ...

Scientists hope to employ networks of “dark fibers,” unused fiber optic cables, in order to sense sound waves moving underground—the signals of earthquakes. Some millions of miles of fiber ...

Dark fiber sees businesses lease existing but unused connections from a network provider. Because the installation process for optical fiber cables is expensive, the networks will often deploy ...

But I have two words that should worry the likes of Time Warner Cable, AT&T and Verizon Communications. Dark fiber. What’s that? It’s all the unused fiber-optic lines out there just waiting to ...

About Crosstown Fiber: Crosstown Fiber is an owner, operator and developer of a dark fiber telecommunications network servicing state, local, educational, and commercial customers in the Chicago ...

The company added the dark fiber cable consists of an end-to-end Prysmian fiber cable with Corning SMF-28 ultra glass for reduced latency and fortified security. Founded in 2013, Global InterXchange ...

Fiber optic cables weren’t a new invention in the 1990s ... The crash also left behind a glut of unused fiber that was later dubbed “dark fiber.” By various estimates, 85% to 95% of fiber ...

The cables currently in the ground are what is known as dark fiber. That means they are not yet "lit" or being used by a service provider. These one will be open access, which will allow multiple ...

The company added the dark fiber cable consists of an end-to-end Prysmian fiber cable with Corning SMF-28 ultra glass for reduced latency and fortified security. Founded in 2013, Global ...