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NYC's Educational Dark Fiber Network
An anonymous reader submits "A group of educational leaders in New York City has created a new fiber backbone network off previously layed but unused fiber. Connecting many city NYSERNet members (the Museum of Natural History, CUNY, Mt. Sinai-NYU Medical, Cornell Med., Columbia Med., and Columbia's primary campus), the newly activated backbone connects to Internet2 and commodity Internet and intends to be largely used for video streaming. Original plan info here."
intends to be largely used for video streaming.
*Wink wink*
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
How many instances of this are there across the US/world? Unused fiber? Find some for me!
intends to be largely used for video streaming.
You misspelled sharing.
I misread that one at first. The first thoughts that come running through me are that first /. puts the word scrotum on the front page and now this?
what kind of video gets streamed from a natural history museum to a hospital? More seriously, here in Denmark, the electricity companies want to get in on the game, but nobady really knows where all that fiber got dumped during the bubble. One company ordered fiber along a road, and then found out there was already dark fiber: the company they asked to dig the trenches had also dug the previous ones. If it was me, I would have kept my mouth shut, but then again...
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
Nudge, nudge, know what I mean, say no more!
Man: Well, I mean like,... you've SLEPT, with a lady...
Squire: Yes...
Man: What's it like?
sigs, as if you care.
And you wouldn't believe the rent you've got to pay to live in one of them.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
is there any indication that the discovery of this so-called 'dark fiber' could change our understanding of if the universe will end in a singularity or endless expansion?
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Yes "dark" is the right term. It means no telco is lighting it with their SONET or whatever equipment and then selling me a managed service. We have 20-year rights to several strands of actual glass end-to-end which we can light with whatever we want. We could send morse code by flashlight (torch for the bloody UK poster:-) but instead we chose to start with 10 gigabit Ethernet. I think the term you are looking for describing previsouly laid and unproductive fiber is "distressed assets." ;-)
I like a little dark fiber and milk in the morning. Helps me poop.