It is a good point about the conduit diversity. Lots of guys in the Wiltel conduit, for example. Right now there are a lot of new regional fiber optic networks and also some new dark fiber networks (one is connecting all the Trans-Atlantic landing stations and telecom hotels in New Jersey). There are always new networks emerging offer lower latency, new physical diversity or just new interesting routes. - R. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Jay Hanke <jayhanke@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 4:42 PM To: tim@29lagrange.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Optical Wave Providers There are lots of national carriers in the US. A much smaller number of those carriers actually own the fiber cables. There are a handful (Zayo, Level3, CenturyLink, Windstream, Earthlink, Verizon) that have very large national, or semi-national foot prints. The carriers frequently trade and lease strands of fiber from each other to create a national network. Be careful on the commodity routes diversity wise. There are a lot of places with 20+ carriers in the same cable (or duct) each claiming to own the route. Jay On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 6:08 PM, <tim@29lagrange.com> wrote:
I have been looking at optical wave carriers for some long haul 1G/10G across the US. All to major cities and well known POP's. I am finding that there are not a lot of carriers who are offering wave services, usually just ethernet/MPLS. Particularly across the North west. Can someone shed some light on who some of the bigger carriers are and any challenges you have encountered with services like this? Who actually owns the fiber across the US?
Thanks
Tim