Dark fiber vendors create new opportunities for data centers

Multiple vendors investing in dark fiber expansion
Many of the leaders in the dark fiber sector are doubling down on their investments, anticipating a wave of new customers. Level 3, for instance, has seen consistent growth in its dark fiber business thanks to endless increases in demand for bandwidth. The company saw a 5.8 percent increase in dark fiber sales in the third quarter of 2014 alone. On the other side of the country, a completely new vendor, Axiom Fiber Networks, has been erected to serve users in New York City, said Data Center Knowledge. By targeting companies and carriers alike, the Axiom hopes to reach the widest range of fiber customers.

IT teams working without access to broadband can be optimistic that their area may soon have access to fiber-optic cables, via new dark fiber vendor. Thanks to the use of Fiber-to-Ethernet converters, companies can even connect their current legacy copper networks directly to newly accessible dark fiber networks instead of having to replace their current cable infrastructure.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160 km.