It is rumored in the market that Google is still purchasing dark fiber.



Alex Lightman, CEO of IP telephony vendor Innofone.com announced about the Google’s expenditures on dark fiber. He made this announcement while debating on the adoption of Internet Protocol Version 6 at the Burton Group’s annual Catalyst conference in San Francisco.



He observed that there is lack of support by service providers for IPv6. According to him US is focusing on the present needs of addressing not on future needs.



According to him, Google has hired Vint Cerf in September 2005 as vice president and chief Internet evangelist in order to lead the company’s IPv6 strategy. With IPv6, the Internet will be able to handle trillions of individual addresses.



According to telecom industry, the capital expenditure of Google will exceed the $800 million in 2005. The actual amount may be in the range of $1.25 billion. The some portion of this investment is going to purchase in dark fibers or unused fiber-optic telecommunications infrastructure built in the late 1990s.



Via: eWeek