Dark Fiber

Carriers looking to increase their network capacity can look to the FiberRing Dark Fiber Service to satisfy the demand for today´s bandwidth-intensive applications. Dark Fiber Service is POP-to-POP backbone fiber capacity that is offered for sale.

A Dark Fiber is a fully transparent, unprotected Dark Fiber.

Dark Fibers are sold as full circuits, which means that they are provided on FiberRing´s wholly-owned and operated facilities. A Service Level Agreement is available for wavelength service and can be customized for each customer.

Customers of the FiberRing Dark Fiber Service are responsible for installing the networking equipment and providing clocking, monitoring, network management, customer service, and all other services. Due to the fact that the interconnect distance is short, FiberRing will offer colocation in conjunction with the Dark Fiber service.

FiberRing Dark Fiber Services are sold as separate offerings:

Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) Services (15 years)
Long term Capital Lease (10 or 15 years)
Short-term Lease (1 to 5 year)

Features	Benefits

Dedicated, full-time connections	Provides full bandwidth that is always available with high security
Depreciable asset	Offers a tax benefit and appearance of ownership when purchasing wavelength service on an IRU or Capital Lease basis
Supports all business applications	Enables carrier customers to use wavelengths for any application or resale purpose
Totally digital, state-of-the art transmission facilities	Provides high quality, secure, and reliable connections
Speeds available are 2.5Gbps and 10Gbps	Allows maximum flexibility in present and future applications
Competitive pricing	Provides an economical service for high usage applications
Colocation	Reduces the customer´s "Last-Mile" expense
Ring pricing	Enables the customer to drop and insert services at various Network Access Points
Flexibility	Provides the ability to subdivide bandwidth in any combination desired for greater flexibility of use
Service Level Agreement	Commitment to a high level of service with guarantees of reliability

The FiberRing Wavelength Service can be used for all high-speed broadband applications, including expanding the network backbone, building an IP network, reselling bandwidth, and transferring data.

Backbone Network Expansion

With FiberRing´s global network coverage, customers can expand their points of presence around the world. The FiberRing Wavelength Service is fully transparent, unprotected bandwidth at 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps. Wavelength service offers the flexibility to subdivide capacity in any bandwidth combination required. Customers can purchase a ring topology and create their own protection schemes. Customers can install their own equipment and network management system to meet their network requirements. Diversity can be achieved by purchasing different segments of the network from FiberRing.

IP Network Build

FiberRing´s network deployment and extensive public and private Internet peering arrangements, large carriers or ISPs can build a global IP network to deliver superior and reliable services to their end customers.

Bandwidth Resale

With the benefit of economies of scale, large carriers or ISPs can acquire FiberRing´s high-speed capacity and resell to their end customers in a cost-effective way. Large carriers or ISPs can help their end customers reduce their telecommunications cost by offering them a cheaper, seamless, next generation global network.

Large Data Transfer Applications

Customers can transfer large volumes of data at high speeds.