Does dark fiber increase my network management costs and complexity?
Network cost and complexity is significantly reduced with dark fiber in a number of ways: • Dark fiber has no active devices in the path as in a typical carrier network, therefore are fewer devices to manage and less thing that are likely to go wrong; • Repair and maintenance of the fiber is generally included in the service contract from the fiber provider. These companies are in many cases the same companies that carriers use to maintain their fiber; • Dark fiber allows organization to centralize servers and/or out source many different functions such as web hosting, server management, etc. A fiber network allows large enterprise customers, universities and schools to essentially extend their in house LANs across the wide area. Because there is no effective cost to bandwidth with dark fiber the long distance LAN can be still run at native speeds with no performance degradation to the end user. It is therefore very simple to relocate a server to a distant location where previously it
