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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Dark fibre, lit service, wavelength service?

Also known as: dark fibre · lit service · wavelength service

Definition 13.7 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 13 — Long-Haul Fibre

Dark fibre is fibre sold or leased without equipment: the buyer lights it with its own transponders and amplifiers and controls everything that affects latency. A lit service is capacity sold on the seller’s equipment: a circuit of a given speed between two points. A wavelength service is a lit service that dedicates one wavelength of the seller’s fibre system to the buyer.

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