The US military’s new super-Internet

Om Malik | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 | 7:09 AM PT | 0 comments

Federal Computer Week: “GIG-BE is DOD’s bandwidth World Series — an $886 million initiative to
build a fast, secure, ubiquitous optical network based on IP. It will
connect 100 sites worldwide so warfighters and analysts can post and access intelligence and data more quickly.” [via Werblog]

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