In an effort to provide its constituents with a strong communications infrastructure, the government of the Dominican Republic recently announced a $61 million project that aims to expand the availability of fiber optics throughout the country. The network will provide coverage to an area of 3,000 square kilometers, nearly seven percent of the nation’s territory.
The project reinforces the practical necessity of fiber optics and marks one of many undertaken as the technology rapidly becomes integrated into the Latin and South American communications infrastructure. Additionally, the Dominican Republic’s decision to invest further in fiber optics continues to a global trend of accelerating support of the technology.
Compared to its legacy counterpart, copper wire, fiber optics provide users with a variety of benefits, including:
Because of the substantial benefits that fiber optics afford, it comes as no surprise that governments across the globe continue to invest in improved fiber infrastructures. One could expect this trend to continue into the future.