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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | An inactive fibre-optic strand without electronics or optronics, i. e. , no connected transmitters, receivers, regenerators, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term was originally used when talking about the potential network capacity of telecommunication infrastructure, but now also refers to a form of telecommunication network product that is purchased by network operators from fibre providers.
The reason that dark fibre exists in well-planned networks is that much of the cost of installing cables is in so called civils - the civil engineering work required in order to get the cables installed. This includes planning and routing, obtaining permissions, creating ducts and channels for the cables, and finally installation and connection. This work accounts for more than 60% of the cost of developing fibre networks, with only a relatively small proportion actually being invested in the optical fibre cable and high-tech networking infrastructure.
It therefore makes sense to plan for and install significantly more fibre than is needed for current demand, to provide for future expansion and provide for network redundancy in case any of the cables fail. Dark fibre for capacity expansion
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dark fibre."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dark fibre | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "DARK FIBRE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | ubenyttet fiber (dark fiber), mørk fiber (dark fiber). (various references) | |
Dutch | dark fiber (dark fiber). (various references) | |
Finnish | käyttämätön kuitu (dark fiber). (various references) | |
French | fibre noire (dark fiber). (various references) | |
German | ungenutzte Faser (dark fiber), unbeschaltete Glasfaser (dark fiber), Reservefaser (dark fiber), passive Glasfaserverbindung (dark fiber). (various references) | |
Greek | ανενεργός ίνα (dark fiber). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arkday ibrefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fibra escura (dark fiber). (various references) | |
Spanish | fibra "oscura" (dark fiber). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-f-i-k-r-r" | |
-2 letters: barkier, braider, brakier. | |
-3 letters: abider, arider, barfed, barked, barker, barred, birder, birred, braked, briard, daiker, darker, debark, faired, fairer, kerria, raider. | |
-4 letters: abide, afire, aider, aired, airer, ardeb, baked, baker, barde, bared, barer, barre, beard, bider, biked, biker, braid, brake, bread, break, briar, bride, brief, brier, darer, deair, debar, diker, direr, drake, drear. | |
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