Enormous amounts of fiber trunk capacity<div>was installed during the halcyon days of the </div><div>dot-com era. Wavelength division multiplexing</div><div>of up to 1,024 channels per fiber had been</div><div>developed. It's a fact that much of this trunk</div>
<div>capacity was never turned on, but it's still out</div><div>there.</div><div><br></div><div>But it's also true that the ability to deliver that</div><div>capacity to specific buildings and houses was</div><div>
never built, because of the dot-com crash. So</div><div>Verizon dinks around with FiOS, but for the </div><div>most part fiber to the home is still at best </div><div>somewhere in the future. Maybe businesses</div><div>
will fare a little better.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>The concept of "dark fiber" is almost entirely mythological. There is a<br>
lot of unused fiber capacity but that doesn't make it any cheaper to<br>
connect to.<br>
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