Fiber

Fiber

We provide the latest Fiber news, analysis and opinion. In the Fiber sector we cover companies including Zayo Group (private), Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI), Uniti Group (NASDAQ: UNIT), and Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN). Within Fiber, we focus on the sub-sectors of wholesale / dark fiber, enterprise fiber, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), and subsea cables.

Our fiber news discusses how fiber optic cables consist of bundled glass strands that transfer data signals into optical light. Importantly, fiber is the connective tissue. Fiber supplies connectivity, and enables all of the other three types of digital infrastructure to work.

Fiber news includes discussing how fiber provides the core connectivity for internet traffic globally. Additionally, fiber connects cellular tower sites, data centers, small cells, and last-mile customers into the broader global network.

Our fiber news segments are in two core verticals: dark fiber and lit services. Dark fiber is the leasing of individual fiber strands to provide dedicated high bandwidth, fixed network capacity. In this case, the customer lights the fiber themselves. Whereas, lit services is where the service provider lights the fiber and enables connectivity for the customer. Connectivity ranges from 100 Mbps of capacity to 100 Gbps of capacity.

Additionally, our fiber news includes discussing how the fiber revenue model varies by segment. Fiber revenue can typically be parsed into two segments or customers bases: wholesale fiber and enterprise fiber. Wholesale fiber is carrier-to-carrier traffic, where connectivity services are provided for mobile operators (e.g., AT&T) and other fiber providers (e.g., Cogent). Enterprise fiber is the supply connectivity services to businesses, government agencies, health care providers and telecom providers.

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Top 100 Subsea Cable Systems in the World as of 2023

The top 100 subsea cable systems enable international communications by transmitting data underwater between continents and countries across the world.
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Google’s TPU Subsea Cable Revealed Amid U.S.-China Tensions

Google has applied for a license to construct and operate the TPU subsea cable system connecting the United States with Taiwan, Philippines, and Guam.
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Anjana Subsea Cable: Meta Unveils New 4,425-Mile Route

Meta Platforms has applied for a license to construct and operate the Anjana subsea cable system from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Santander, Spain.
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Dark Fiber: What is it? and How Does it Work?

Dark fiber serves as a robust backbone for Internet connectivity with indefeasible right of use (IRU) contracts ensuring long-term network access.
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Top 200 Dark Fiber and Lit Fiber Providers in the World

The top 200 dark fiber and lit fiber providers deliver connectivity to businesses through fiber optic networks that span millions of miles globally.
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Top 125 Internet Providers in the U.S. for Fiber and Cable

In the United States, the top 125 internet service providers (ISPs) are led by fiber optic broadband businesses and cable companies.
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Fiber Optics: What is it? and How Does it Work?

Globally, the deployment of fiber optics has been rapidly increasing as the demand for high-speed data transmission, via optical fiber cables, grows.
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Broadband Internet: Everything You Need to Know

Broadband provides a reliable internet connection and is a high-speed data transmission medium, delivering service and access to homes and businesses.
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Upload Speed: Demand Grows as New Use Cases Evolve

Upload speed is the rate at which data is transferred from a computer or device to the internet, and a good measure of it is in megabits per second (Mbps).
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XGS-PON: Fiber-based Technology Delivering 10 Gbps

Service providers are rapidly building fiber networks and XGS-PON technology has become the standard for meeting the bandwidth needs of customers.