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Posted on 06.26.06
Following Google’s large-scale purchases of dark fiber capacity, there has been much speculation on what Google is going to do with all this dark fiber. In this article, Alex Lightman, CEO of IP telephony vendor Innofone.com proposed that it has do with the new Internet Protocol version 6 standard IPv6. Apparently, major US carriers have been slow to adapt this standard, and Google may be planning to adapt this standard for traffic over the now dark fiber. IPv6 provisions for orders of magnitude more IP addresses, which may be important to Google for providing services to mobile devices. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: 1 Comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a commentLine and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: |
[…] According to this Lightreading article, Google is rethinking its investment in dark fiber and operating its own long haul fiber network. Reasons for the retreat include low carrier prices for capacity, regulatory hurdles, and realignment of investment priorities. This article is contrary to a previous article that Google may be amassing dark fiber to build an IPv6 network. Filed under: Fiber Optic Telecom Business Issues Comments: […]
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