Dark Fiber

Dedicated Dark Fiber Infrastructure

Dark fiber gives your organization dedicated access to passive fiber-optic infrastructure, allowing you to operate your own transmission equipment and control capacity, routing and service design. It is the right choice for businesses, operators and data-intensive environments that require private, scalable and high-performance connectivity.

Dark fiber infrastructure service

Why Dark Fiber?

For organizations with high traffic volumes, strict security requirements or long-term growth plans, dark fiber provides a strong foundation for predictable network performance. Instead of purchasing fixed-bandwidth services, clients can scale capacity by upgrading their own optical equipment while keeping control over the physical route and network architecture.

Features

Our dark fiber service is designed for clients that require control, capacity and long-term flexibility:

  • Nx1 fibers
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • Predictable QoS
  • Standardized
  • Reliable

Service Scope

  • Service type and contract duration
  • Number and length of fibers
  • Physical locations of endpoints
  • SLA: general or specific

Technical Description

  • ISO OSI - Layer 1
  • Mode - SM
  • Cable lead - HDPE or armored
  • Applicable standards - ITU-T G.652 and related standards

Attenuation

  • 0.35 dB/km @1310 nm
  • 0.22 dB/km @1550 nm
  • < 0.3 dB/splice
  • SLA: general or specific

Service Demarcation Point (UNI)

  • ODF
  • Direct fiber splice in a fiber-optic enclosure

Optical UNI Interfaces

  • SC/PC
  • LC/PC
  • Others available upon request