Monday, November 23, 2020

What is dark fiber?

 Optical fiber is a transmission medium commonly used in data networks consisting of a very fine thread of transparent material through which pulses of light are sent representing the data to be transmitted. The light beam is completely confined and propagates through the interior of the fiber. Fibers are widely used in telecommunications due to their enormous capacity and high security. For their use they are grouped into cables, with a certain number of optical fibers.


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The use of fiber as a transmission medium consists of connecting telecommunication equipment at each end; At one end there is a transmitter equipment that is responsible for transforming the data into optical or light energy that will travel through the fiber, while at the opposite end a receiving equipment is connected, whose mission is to transform the received light signal across the fiber in the original data.

Optical fiber has a very high capacity for data transmission, which allows obtaining enormous data transmission speeds if the appropriate equipment is connected to its ends.

They also have the advantage that the use of light energy is immune to electromagnetic interference and optical communications are impossible to intercept without the user.

Dark fiber optic
Dark fiber refers to fiber optic circuits that have been deployed by a company and are not being used (they are therefore not “illuminated”). In order to obtain profitability from these idle circuits, the company makes them available to third parties in exchange for a certain economic consideration, in the so-called Telecommunications Infrastructure Market. The formula normally used is the rental of dark fiber, whereby the client pays a periodic rent for its use, but there is also the formula known as “IRU”, which stands for Irrevocable Right of Use .

the client being in charge of operating and managing it, connecting its transmission equipment to it (lighting it). This allows the customer to directly manage the optical fiber and have all the bandwidth necessary to cover both their current needs and in the medium and long term at a fixed price.

For example, up to 2.5GB is now available with simple and affordable streaming equipment. This capacity can be expanded almost unlimitedly using equipment of greater capacity, having sufficient capacity not only for but for the foreseeable growth.

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