THE INDEPENDENTS: F6 Networks is lighting up the Maritimes with dark fibre

Company has national ambitions, too By Ruby Pratka WHEN FREDERICTON-BASED f6 Networks began building its fibre optic network in New Brunswick in 2008, the tech sector was reeling from a crushing recession, and fibre networks were nowhere near as ubiquitous as they now are. More than a decade later, f6 Networks has built the largest independent fibre optic network in the Maritimes and is using its wide-ranging dark-fibre network to allow clients to build internal networks their own way. Today, the f6 network is the largest privately owned open-access fibre network in Canada. K-Line Construction, the predecessor to f6, was...