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Never said there's anything wrong with it, it just changes the capital expenditure and worth from physical to virtual (peering agreements). Companies like Cent
by kev009 8y ago
Never said there's anything wrong with it, it just changes the capital expenditure and worth from physical to virtual (peering agreements). Companies like Century Link, AT&T, Verizon are in a slightly different category with abundant in ground infrastructure (that has extreme tax benefits in the US).
- walrus01 8y agoIf you look at CAIDA ASRANK, very few of the top-20 ranked ASes in the world, as ranked by diversity of peering, number of BGP adjacencies, etc also own/fully control the dark fiber their inter-city router-to-router links are operating on. They leave that to specialists like Zayo. Telia has POPs all up and down the US west coast but it's certainly not their fiber connecting them together.
- ZWoz 8y agoIf you look globally, then owning fiber everywhere is impossible: there are countries where legal framework allows one or few specific operators.