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 ...

Much of this availability stems from the dot-com boom of the 1990s, when telecommunications companies installed long stretches of cables; some of them, known as dark fiber, remain untapped.

Next steps: So-called dark fiber cables, ones that are no longer being used by internet firms, could be repurposed to study the sea floor in this way, and look for earthquake danger zones or even ...

That unused area is called white space. Here’s a new term: dark fiber. Today, the FCC decides whether to approve a plan to make unused fiber optic cable, or dark fiber, available to schools and ...

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 ...

Despite its ominous name, “dark fiber” refers to unused capacity in the fiber optic system. While the cable is already delivering internet to key public institutions, large portions of the ...

dark contours of the ocean floor, transmitting sights and sounds at the speed of light through strands of glass fiber as thin as your hair but thousands of miles long. And yet subsea cables are ...