City planners highlight the possibility of fiber-optic to boost region's commerceCreated: 4/29/2011 8:08:33 AM Fiber-optic leads to increased internet downloading speed and bandwidth capabilities, both of which are features that may entice big businesses to migrate to a local area's network. The city officials of Farmington, New Mexico, are well aware of this possibility.
According to the Farmington Daily Times, the city has 80 miles of fiber-optic cable that is currently used, and has additional stores of dark fiber, a term given to broadband wires that are inactive. Municipal leaders are now probing the idea of using this extra cable to compound the network that is already in place, thus boosting the municipality's potential to deliver world-class internet speeds. Furthermore, the upgrade may be relatively easy to complete.
"It would only take a single strand of city-owned fiber to disseminate the bandwidth we've already brought into the area. Our goal is to flood the market with cheap, available bandwidth so the region can take advantage of a broad array of new online services," Corey Bryndal, PacketRail network engineer, told the news source.
The main goal of the initiative is to attract big businesses to the region. According to Biz Community, the planned installation of a network in South Africa is a response to the developmental and business potential of the country.
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