As a dark fiber operator (and WDM/transport provider for ISPs) Syringa is a pretty cool idea. It was founded by a bunch of small copper dialtone LECs (non Bell system) that each have a tiny portion of the Idaho market. Idaho has a lot of small telephone companies the size of Beehive or smaller that serve a few thousand houses.
Starting 15+ years ago, none of them individually had enough money to run dark fiber around Idaho, but together they could do it... http://www.syringanetworks.net/about/history/ http://www.syringanetworks.net/resources/our_network/ On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm staying at a hotel in Sun Valley, Idaho this weekend. This is the > speedtest results from their free WiFi. Pretty damn impressive considering > this is running the test on a six year old laptop with a basic Wifi chipset. > > Travis > >
