RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Dark Fiber

6.02.2005

Dark Fiber

This is awesome. OneCleveland is trying to expand into Akron. OneCleveland is a super high-speed internet service that is based on Dark Fiber. For those of you who don't know what it is, Dark Fiber is a technology that allows data to be passed using light. According to The BJ its about 1,300 times faster then a dial-up connection. Take that Roadrunner.

Great, so Akron's gonna have the Internet. What's that really going to do? I think I'll let Erika Smith answer that one.

For hospitals, schools, government agencies, arts organizations and research institutions, this means super-fast Web access at a relatively low price. (Individual users can't tap in.)

But expanding OneCleveland also means these institutions have a new way to collaborate and new partners to do it with.

Hospitals, for instance, could share patients' medical records quickly and cheaply. Or a school in Summit County could beef up its distance-learning classes with a real-time, high-definition tour of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Or the orchestras of Cleveland and Akron could do a joint concert, with each in its own city.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine teaming the Akron Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art together to help spread art to the masses. There could be giant teleconferences when big name speakers come to Akron or Cleveland. Now if Akron only had free wi-fi...

The BJ :: Computer network to expand to Summit

(joe :: Dark Fiber)

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