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Is cable start of 'Cyber Valley'?
New fiber-optic line raises hopes for 'Cyber Valley' in CulpeperDate published: 7/30/2009 BY DONNIE JOHNSTON A partnership bringing fiber-optic cable to Culpeper led County Administrator Frank Bossio yesterday to compare the area's potential to California's Silicon Valley. "What Terremark and Fiberlight have accomplished marks the epicenter of a whole new era," Bossio said at a news conference marking the completion of Fiberlight's new fiber-optic cable line. "This is the embryonic stage of 'Cyber Valley.'" Culpeper may not have achieved Silicon Valley status yet, but the completion of the 100-mile line from Fairfax County is a big step. Last June, Terremark opened the first of five buildings the data routing and storage firm plans on a 30-acre campus in Culpeper. That building is already at capacity and the construction of a second building is under way. With expansion comes the need for more capability to transfer information. Last year, Fiberlight, which is headquartered in Atlanta, stepped up and began laying high-quality fiber-optic cable from Chantilly to Culpeper. The network, completed at a cost of $30 million, was also constructed with spur lines to link Terremark with several federal facilities in the Culpeper-Warrenton area. The Miami-based company serves the federal government and about 600 high-profile Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo and FaceBook. Calling the line, which extends from Northern Virginia to Washington to Baltimore, a "backbone" of information transportation, Fiber- light founder and Chief Operating Officer Mike Miller said that the recently completed cable carries 432 fibers. "That's 138 terrebites, enough to handle every call coming in and out of Terremark for the next several years," said Miller, whose company has some 2,200 miles of fiber-optic cable around the Washington metropolitan area. Bruce Hart, chief operating officer of Terremark's Federal Group, told the gathering that the new network--built completely at Fiberlight's expense--would help his company expand faster. When completed, the $250 million Terremark campus is expected to provide about 250 new area jobs at an average salary of about $90,000 a year. "Behind every one of those little blinking lights [in the Terremark facility], there are transactions of commerce and affairs of government taking place," said Hart, a Fauquier County native. Jerry Towns, who represents Allied Telecom, one of Terremark's customers, lauded the security benefits of getting vital records to the Culpeper storage and routing facility via the new cyber-transport capabilities. "A big part of Terremark is data recovery," Towns said. "That's huge." Fiberlight has 500,000 miles of cable across the country and links cities from Boston to Seattle to Miami. Norm Laudermilch, senior vice president of the Culpeper facility, called this "a great milestone for Fiberlite and Terremark, but a huge milestone for Culpeper." Laudermilch also told the group that construction of a new 72,000-square-foot office facility will begin soon. Donnie Johnston:
Read more stories about Culpeper Date published: 7/30/2009
fiber optic is just hype
(posted by
Jaes
, July 30, 2009 6:27 pm)
unless you have fiber installed inside the house, you'll never see any benefits of having it outside the house, data only moves as fast as the slowest connection.
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