Allied Fiber’s CEO, Hunter Newby, recently met with Benoit Felten from Fibre Evolution. Benoit’s experience derives from having worked in the telecommunication industry for the past 15 years. Aside from running his blog, Fibre Evolution, he is head of Diffraction Analysis, a company that focuses on issues regarding next generation fiber access.
During their meeting, Hunter and Benoit discussed how the cost of long-distance fiber was expensive even with relatively low bandwidth usage. Fiber deployed in the 90s isn't optimal for modern communications and even with excess capacity; the cost for connectivity is far from affordable. Hunter and Benoit both understand the mission for open access dark fiber and share the same vision on the need to bring competitive rates to markets that need high-quality broadband. Allied Fiber owns, builds and will operate its own unique network-neutral, fiber optic cable system, using next generation, long-haul and short-haul dark fiber to address America’s need for more broadband access, wireless back-haul, data center distribution and lower latency communications services.
For Benoit’s full article, visit: http://www.fiberevolution.com/2011/12/the-other-side-of-the-ftth-ecosystem.html
