Fibre is a passive conduit that carries light. Light encodes data on fibre like electrons encode data on copper wires (eg computers). The faster the light turns on/off the higher the bandwidth. The light is generated by the transmission equipment.
A last mile passive optical network (PON) is a data centre switch directing data to destinations at a preset bandwidth on the fibre via the transmission equipment, and with no extra electronics added.
To-date each fibre is paired with a single PON. Rushmere’s equipment overlays multiple extra PONs onto the same fibre (‘virtualization’) to increase total bandwidth delivered per fibre (Fibre-infrastructure-as-a-Service).
