What is Dark Fibre Africa ?

"Dark fibre" can be described as an optical fibre infrastructure which has been installed but is not being used. "Dark fibre" refers to unlit optical fibre. Fibre optic cable is the medium through which transmission equipment transmits data via light forms. As there is no light being transmitted in dark fibre it can be described as being "unlit".

Dark fibre affords telecommunications operators the choice of selecting the technology of their choice,whether that be SDH, ATM, Ethernet of fibre channel, without having to incur the massive up front capital expenditure of constructing the entire network infrastructure or having to rent an expensive managed service from an operator that may also be a competitor. The main benefits of dark fibre lie in its cost, capacity and speed of execution advantages.