Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) was established by Community Investment Ventures (CIV) and Venfin to build a carrier neutral, dark fibre infrastructure for the transmission of metro and long haul telecommunications traffic."Dark fibre" can be described as an optical fibre infrastructure which has been installed but is not being used. "Dark fibre" refers to unlit optical fibre. Fibre optic cable is the medium through which transmission equipment transmits data via light forms. As there is no light being transmitted in dark fibre it can be described as being "unlit".
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