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		bayindirh 80 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard dr... I meant a “single mode, non terminated fiber optic cable from point to point”. In other words, your own cable without any other traffic on it. A shared one will be metro Ethernet in my parlance.

woooooo 80 days ago [–]

Noob question, is there an in-between where people sell spectrum bands on a shared fiber without going up to L2? Or is that just too complex compared to using off the shelf ethernet and sharing that.

madsushi 79 days ago | [–]

Yep, absolutely, often called "wave/wavelength" or "lambda" service, or "lit fiber".

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