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NYC's Educational Dark Fiber Network

Posted by timothy on from the you-only-use-10-percent dept.

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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  1. Re:ffs... by FrYGuY101 · · Score: 1, Insightful
    bloody yanks
    I'm sorry, but I fail to connect the grammatical error with the statement 'bloody yanks'. Mangling the language occurs on both sides of the pond, you know.
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  2. Space, bandwidth, and digging holes. by RealProgrammer · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From TFPDF:
    • Our (and Cornell's) affiliated hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian, has a significantly larger leased ATM infrastructure at DS-3 and OC-3 rates interconnecting about a dozen buildings. We were separately and collectively paying a lot for bandwidth in Manhattan.

      • In rural Illinois we just run cable up the Interstate or build another series of attractive microwave towers when bandwidth gets short.

        The problems of running a network, and a university for that matter, in a metropolis such as New York or Chicago are completely different. We have lots of cheap space but very little infrastructure, while they have too much infrastructure and hardly any space.

        We just dig a hole and lay cable; in NYC all the holes have already been taken.

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  3. an AWFUL lot of this by RMH101 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    most of the cost of running fiber anywhere is backhoe. once you've dug a trench, the cost implications for adding double the amount of fiber/cable you actually need is negligible - so you put loads in to allow for future expansion. this extra fiber just sits there until it's needed, or until other fiber breaks and is swapped over to the spare capacity...