Columbia, along with several other major universities in Manhattan, has started to make use of the hundreds of miles of dark fiber currently lying unused beneath the streets of the island. Dark fiber is fiber optic cabling that was probably laid down during the heydays of the Internet bubble, but that no one ever got around to actually using.
This will double Columbia's bandwidth from 155Mbps to over 300Mbps. Awesome.
Posted by ryan at December 14, 2004 12:04 PM | TrackBack