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Google: Dark Fiber Story Not So Dark

Mark Sullivan writes on Light Reading:

Google head of special initiatives Chris Sacca went into spin cycle last week while explaining his company’s dark fiber investments to Light Reading.

“I’ve bought a lot of fiber for Google,” Sacca says. The Google people believe their fiber buys have been misunderstood, and therefore viewed with an undo amount of suspicion by outsiders.

“People don’t understand that it’s not Google trying to take over the world,” Sacca says. Sacca explained that Google began investing in dark fiber for two main reasons: to connect the server farms and to "peer" with telecommunications service providers.

posted by Fergie @ 10/11/2006 11:07:00 AM