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PC Magazine May 4, 2005 Cade Metz	The Bright Side of Dark Fiber Optics With a bold IT staff and plenty of networking experience, Bank of America takes the dark-fiber plunge. Cutting the telecom out of the equation frees companies to make their own maintenance decisions, such as when to schedule outages.
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