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."

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[CleverNickedName]

intends to be largely used for video streaming.

*Wink wink*

A lot of this?

[StevenHenderson]

A group of educational leaders in New York City has created a new fiber backbone network off previously layed but unused fiber.

How many instances of this are there across the US/world? Unused fiber? Find some for me!

wit the summary

[dq5 studios]

intends to be largely used for video streaming.
You misspelled sharing.

can anyone explain

[spectrokid]

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...