Dark Fiber what is it? How is it priced and how different is it from ‘traditional’ internet connectivity?
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It’s just unused fibre, essentially a spare cable, you can plug into.
You might get multiple hops (e.g. from one office to a central location, and then back out to another office). You might also rent space for equipment along the way (e.g. you might get dark fibre to a central location, owned by the same/a different provider, from several places you own, then put some routing equipment in the central location).
For example, I work at a place that has dark fibre from various offices to central locations in each city. Then we rent leased lines (on a fibre used by other people as well) between cities.
Pricing is kind of wild. Depends massively on the route, how much competition, alternatives etc.
Getting dark fibre out of an office building to a data center can be quite reasonable. Unless, say, the office needs the fibre installed (e.g. it only passes by as is) and the provider has a monopoly on dark fibre into that data center, then it can be absurdly expensive.
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