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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by dmd on Sunday February 26, 2017 @08:46AM (#13737172)
Dark fiber means unused. How does that help?
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by sugarrush on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:14AM (#13737297)
The term 'dark fiber' is also used as a product to be bought from a network company, which the customer (in this case bloomberg) then lights up themselves.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by ceejayoz on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:09AM (#13737266)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre

> A dark fibre network or simply dark network is a privately operated optical fiber network that is run directly by its operator over dark fibre leased or purchased from another supplier. This is in contrast to purchasing bandwidth or leased line capacity on an existing network. Dark fibre networks may be used for private networking, or as Internet access or infrastructure.

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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by vosper on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:20AM (#13737314)
They GP talked about "installing a decent amount of dark fiber" not running a network over someone else's unused fiber, which I think is the "network" part of your quote.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by zero_intp on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:28AM (#13737635)
Bloomberg and co buy lit, dark, and switched products. In NYC, they purchase these products from the incumbent players.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by spydum on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:13AM (#13737292)
I take it to mean they roll out their own physical fiber, and don't just lease or ride someone else's network.
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Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? by vosper on Sunday February 26, 2017 @09:18AM (#13737308)
It's sounds more secret and cool?

You're right.

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