EuroFiber Enters Emerging Market With a Managed Dark Fiber Solution From Lucent and Partner Imtech

Overview

In 2003, EuroFiber recognized a major opportunity to provide dark fiber services down-market to small and medium business. The company developed a ring in their network with fast, one gigabyte Internet service, along with 10 channels of slower 100 megabyte service, for customers too small to use a complete fiber solution. EuroFiber manages its dark fiber network 24/7/365 via its own Network Operations Center (NOC), but it is not equipped to provide NOC service to manage the bandwidth service and to provide tech support to users. The company worked with Imtech, a Europe-based network equipment and services provider as well as a Lucent partner. Imtech then partnered with Lucent to provide with NOC services from the Lucent GNOC at Hilversum (in the Netherlands).