[ML-General] Google Fiber coming to Huntsville

WebDawg webdawg at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 23:00:03 CST 2016


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Michael Carroll
<carroll.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> The AL.com article seems to indicate that the Google portion of the rollout
> is all
> Huntsville.(http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2016/02/google_fiber_is_bringing_its_u.html):
>
> The utility, which serves all of Madison County, will run fiber into the
> county – at first to substations and other infrastructure – raising the
> possibility of providers bringing gigabit service to Madison and rural
> areas, too.
>
> "But the work we're doing to lease the dark fiber to (Google) is just within
> the city limits of Huntsville," Stowe said. Dark fiber is fiber-optic cable
> before data is moving through it.

Dark fiver is also private fiber too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre



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