Total control
Your optics, your wavelengths, your maintenance schedule — nothing in the path but glass.
DARK FIBER · UNLIMITED CAPACITY
Dark Fiber Leasing, Nationwide
Lease the strands themselves. You choose the optics, you control the light, and capacity scales with your equipment — not a per-megabit bill.
- Your strands, your optics
- Capacity = your hardware
- Fixed cost, any bandwidth
- Hospitals · finance · carriers
OVERVIEW
What You Get with FiberX Dark Fiber
Dark fiber is the ownership end of the connectivity spectrum: a lease on physical glass between your locations, unlit until you light it. Upgrade from 10G to 400G by swapping transceivers, run whatever protocols you like, and hold your cost flat while your capacity multiplies. No carrier equipment sits in your path, which also means no carrier maintenance windows in your data plane.
Nationwide dark fiber inventory is fragmented across providers and routes, and pricing varies wildly by segment. FiberX maps every provider with glass along your path, checks splice points and lateral requirements at each building, and negotiates the lease as your agent — including IRU structures for long-term economics.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Why Businesses Choose It
Economics that invert
Per-Mbps costs approach zero as you scale; heavy users often break even against lit services fast.
Security by physics
No shared electronics on the route and no carrier visibility into your traffic.
Route transparency
Exact splice-level routing disclosed — so your “diverse” pair is actually diverse.
WHO IT'S FOR
A Fit For
- Hospitals and universities linking campuses with ever-growing bandwidth needs
- Trading firms lighting their own low-latency paths
- Carriers and ISPs building metro backbone
- Enterprises with 10G+ steady-state traffic between fixed sites
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Dark Fiber — Questions, Answered
01How much does dark fiber cost nationwide?
It’s priced per strand-pair, per route, per term — and varies more than any other service because inventory is fragmented. Short metro segments can be surprisingly affordable; unique routes command premiums. We price every provider with glass on your path and negotiate as your agent.
02What equipment do I need to light dark fiber?
Transceivers or DWDM gear at each end matched to the distance and target capacity — from simple 10G optics for short metro runs to amplified DWDM for high-count waves. We’ll model equipment cost into the comparison against lit alternatives.
03What is an IRU?
An Indefeasible Right of Use — a long-term (often 20-year) capitalizable lease structure common in dark fiber. It trades a larger upfront commitment for dramatically lower effective annual cost. We’ll tell you honestly whether an IRU or annual lease fits your horizon.
04Is dark fiber overkill for my business?
Sometimes — and we’ll say so. Below roughly 10G of steady traffic between fixed points, lit services usually win on total cost. The free design conversation includes that math.
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