San Francisco's patchy data connectivity could become a thing of the past after mayor Ed Lee and supervisor Mark Farrell released a report containing a blueprint to bring fibre connectivity to every home and business in the city. The study by consultants CTC Technology & Energy details how fibre planning needed to be split into "dark" (the infrastructure) and "lit" (internet services) fibre. "The city is going to have to do some serious thinking about what it wants from its broadband network," said CTC CEO John Stanton.
San Francisco's patchy data connectivity could become a thing of the past after mayor Ed Lee and supervisor Mark Farrell released a report containing a blueprint to bring fibre connectivity to every home and business in the city. The study by consultants CTC Technology & Energy details how fibre planning needed to be split into "dark" (the infrastructure) and "lit" (internet services) fibre. San Francisco's authorities would tender in a private firm to set up the publicly controlled dark fibre network extending to every home and business, while third-party outfits would win leases to provide the lit fibre: connecting users.