Customer Empowered Networks School boards and municipalities throughout North America are deploying their own dark fiber networks in partnership with next generation carrier Individual institutions – the customers – own and control their own strands of fiber Fiber are configured in point to point private networks; or Connect to local ISP or carrier hotel Low cost LAN architectures and optics are used to light the fiber Control and management of the optics and wavelengths is under the domain of the LAN customer at the edge, as opposed to the traditional carrier in the center These new concepts in customer empowered networking are starting in the same place as the Internet started – the university and research community.
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