Allied Fiber Begins Building National Dark Fiber Ring > Chicago-Seattle

Chicago-Seattle

Dark fiber doesn't lower prices...

Let them build it, sell it off to AT&T and Verizon, then see if you want stimulus funds involved. Hopefully someone else will buy this and not let it stay dark.

Along that stretch there is not much dark fiber left. Most of it is lit up. Which is why prices are so much higher along that stretch.

reply to markofmayhem
Dark fiber *does* lower prices.

If you're AboveNet or someone similar and can buy dark, then light it up with a few 10G waves for equipment costs (vs. actually having to build the fiber) there's now another player in the area, increasing competition and lowering cost per bit. Since Allied will be laying high-count fibers this will be compounded...would be interesting if providers like Hurricane Electric and PacketExchange picked up on this and started delivering their high bandwidth services to areas that traditionally haven't had said service.

reply to markofmayhem
I hope so.

Bresnan just finished their 10GbE ring between Seattle, Billings, and Denver. If this would help for a redundant backbone, it'd help a large area of Montana.

reply to Lazlow

If you will note I said "Central-west". If you look at your own link you would see that it does not cover SD,KS, or OK at all, nor most of NB(have to zoom in before it will show you).

Edit: Most of Texas is not covered either (again you have to zoom in before it will show you)

reply to Lazlow
They can always 'hop' over the border into Canada... Shaw has fiber near the border

»www.shawbusinesssolutions.ca/sbs···_map.jsp
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Canada = Hollywood North