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American Fiber Systems (AFS), which provides "dark" fiber-optic communication networks for telecommunication carriers, service providers and enterprises, said its Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan dark-fiber network is now operational.
With the lighting of the network, any company or telecommunications carrier in the Salt Lake City area can lease the AFS network's fiber-optic strands to efficiently and cost-effectively transport huge volumes of data, Internet and voice traffic around the city and out to the world by simply attaching the appropriate electronic equipment, company officials said. The network is already in use.
The nearly 40-mile fiber ring goes through Salt Lake City's metropolitan area and surrounding communities, connecting what AFS calls "the most important points of communications presence." These points include telephone company central offices, long distance company points of presence, high-density office complexes and "carrier hotels, or buildings that house the equipment of multiple communications companies.
AFS' network provides immediate, on-network access to the local facilities of both Level 3 Communications and Switch and Data Facilities Co. It also provides easy access to telephone company central offices in Salt Lake City, West Valley City, South Salt Lake, Millcreek, Kearns, Taylorsville-Bennion, and Murray.
The primary benefit of AFS's network, according to company Vice President of Engineering and Operations David M. Baxter, is that it allows carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers to avoid "the multimillion-dollar expense of building their own networks or the delays associated with leasing outdated facilities from other carriers, some of whom would also be competitors."
In addition to Salt Lake City, AFS has also deployed dark-fiber metropolitan networks in Kansas City, Nashville, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Cleveland.
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