Important things you should know about dark fiber.

The main reason why organizations begin using dark fiber is for the potential cost savings. “If your organization has a lot of data that they need to move around or if you happen to already have access to dark fibers for little or no cost, it will save you a lot of money to bring up your own dark fiber network as opposed to paying thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a month to Century Link or Comcast or some other Internet provider

Another benefit of using dark fiber is the potential speed. Whenever an organization is using commercial Internet service, traffic gets bounced around to a lot of different points before arriving at its destination. But with dark fiber, organizations can get a straight line from point A to point B, which improves performance.

An even more important benefit for some organizations is the fact that dark fiber can provide physical redundancy for their existing systems. Enterprises often find that even if they are using two different providers as part of their disaster recovery, business continuity plans, both providers may rely on some of the same physical infrastructure. So in the case of a natural disaster or even something as simple as a construction accident or burst water main, they may lose both their primary connectivity and their backup at the same time.