Dark fibre
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dark-fibre-205-15579626
title:
Dark fibre
text:
A dark fibre or unlit fibre is an unused optical fibre, available for use in fibre-optic communication. Dark fibre may be leased from a network service provider. Dark fibre originally referred to the potential network capacity of telecommunication infrastructure. Because the marginal cost of installing additional fibre optic cables is very low once a trench has been dug or conduit laid, a great excess of fibre was installed in the US during the telecom boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Thi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Unused optical fibre
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
date created:
2003-08-12T12:18:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T15:01:15Z
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