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Traffic growth and price cuts fuel demand for fibre connections
28 August 2008
Wholesale operators are reacting to the surge in demand for bandwidth around the world, and are reacting to renewed requirements for dark fibre, reports Jane Bird
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[Interoute]
[BroadGroup]
[Geo]
[Bazalgette]
[Macquarie]
[Hutchison]
[AboveNet]
[AT&T]
[NTT]
Matthew Finnie: People come to us who would have bought dark fibre networks now want to outsource networks in their entirety
Matthew Finnie, chief technology officer of Interoute, was surprised to be asked to speak at this June's Dark Fibre Convention in London. As a senior executive in one of the industry's bigger companies, he was no stranger to "dark fibre" — the term used to describe optical networks that are not yet in use.
But the prospect of a conference on the topic was almost as astonishing as finding oneself in the mythical world of JK Rowling's Harry Potter.
A decade ago, it was very different. Huge excitement surrounded optical fibre networks, which were seen as vital in creating the information superhighway. In 2000, there were 32 fibre networks competing for traffic in Europe. But the dotcom crash brought a mass of bankruptcies, restructurings and closures among fibre networking...
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