Fiber optics provide links for Terremark

Cable being buried in Culpeper will link Terremark with Northern Virginia

Date published: 4/13/2009

BY DONNIE JOHNSTON

For more than a month, Culpeper residents along State Route 229 have been asking about the heavy cable being buried along that north-south highway.

County Administrator Frank Bossio finally came up with the answer just prior to last week's town-hall-style meeting put on by Supervisors Bradley Rosenberger and Sue Hansohn.

According to Bossio, the cable being buried is a high-quality fiber-optic transmission line headed for Terremark, the international Internet-routing company just southeast of Culpeper.

The private investment line begins "somewhere in Northern Virginia," Bossio said. One terminus is believed to be a government installation in the Washington area.

Bossio said at the meeting that another line is being laid simultaneously between Culpeper and Remington in Fauquier County.

Part of a federal installation known as the Warrenton Training Center is in that area. It was rumored that Vice President Dick Cheney was secluded there following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

While Bossio would neither confirm nor deny that the cable was a government connection, he is pleased that it is being installed.

"Fiber-optic cable is the new interstate highway over which commerce will be based," Bossio said Friday. "This provides great opportunities for Culpeper County."

Terremark, which opened in June, is now in the process of expanding to a second building.

The cable, which is being laid along Virginia Department of Transportation rights-of-way in the county, is now being installed in the town of Culpeper by a company called Team Fishel.

Donnie Johnston:
Email: djohnston@freelancestar.com

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Date published: 4/13/2009