Diverse NexGen CONUS Fiber – Technical Exchange Meetings

Date: 09/18/2025

Vendor: Integrity Advanced Technologies

Technology/Topic: Diverse NexGen CONUS Fiber

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Welcome to the Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM)!

Around the year 2000, the government procured the GIG-BE with fiber constructed by Qwest and Level3 (both now acquired by Lumen) to provide maximum carrier and fiber diversity to the DODIN. This means that 90+ of the dark fiber used today is with one carrier. All fiber constructed during the dot.com boom (1997-2004) is now teetering on obsolescence, because the equipment used today far exceeds the technical capabilities of the fiber connected to it. The average life expectancy of the fiber deployed at that time was 25 years. The DODIN needs to be upgraded to the latest NEXGEN fiber to meet its future needs.

The ITC fiber was deployed over the past 5-10 years with FUSF grants by the US Government for Rural Broadband Connectivity and we now have the 3rd largest fiber footprint in the United States built throughout rural America. Our network has over 400,000 route miles of operational fiber.

Vulnerabilities to the DODIN: The 100G links that have been deployed over the older fiber from the turn of the turn of the century, requiring technical waivers from DISA to operate on the DODIN. We believe that waivers are required on our fiber, because it is newer, smaller, and more perfect with less refraction compared to the erbium doped fiber of that time. This old fiber generally has a capacity of about 2TB per fiber pair and the NEXGEN fiber, like ours, can fully enable AI and can carry capacities of 20-24TB per fiber pair with the current equipment.

ITC’s fiber network is newly deployed, diverse, and strategically located near approximately 85% of U.S. military installations, which are predominantly situated in rural areas across the country. Until recently, this fiber was used exclusively for rural broadband connectivity. However, following ITC’s approval as an FCC 214 licensed carrier in mid-2023, we made the network available to the U.S. Government—leveraging our founder’s deep background in government operations and dark fiber procurement.

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