Google’s Dark Network Plan
Sunday, June 25th, 2006For those of you who don’t know, Google has been buying lots and lots of what’s known as “dark fiber”. Essentially, this is unused fiber optic network that major network infrastructure companies built, but can’t make use of so they sell it off. Now, it’s been speculated all over the place about what Google would need a dark fiber network for. Now, ZDnet is writing that Google is buying a large block of IPv6 addresses. (more…)