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If there ever was a proxy for the future of Networks then it is Larry Smarr. He has an uncanny ability to predict the network evolution. SmarrÌs latest project, an OPTIputer, is trying to develop a blueprint of the network of the future. By combining optical networks, super-computing and grid technologies, Smarr believes that OPTIputer [...]

In 1985, Larry Smarr started championing the construction of the first National Science Foundation (NSF) backbone, which connected the five NSF supercomputer centers in 1986. The project that involved the likes of Milo Medin (of @Home) rapidly evolved first into the NSFnet, and then into todayÌs commercial Internet. At the time he was [...]

First it was Qwest, and now it is Verizon. It seems that the bells are jumping on to the VoIP bandwagon.
bq. Verizon Communications plans to launch VoIP services in Q2 2004, targeting DSL users and the consumer market, Lawrence T. Babbio Jr., Verizon’s Vice Chairman and Domestic Telecom President, said at the UBS global communications [...]

It is not quite broadband, but it is still pretty fast. Ahead of the number portability, AT&T Wireless has announced that it had launched its EDGE high speed data service. The service is going to cost $80 a month, and will allows users to log on the wireless net at speeds ranging from 100 [...]

There seems to be a lot of excitement around fixed wireless broadband and its new avatar, WiMAX. A few days after I posted my essay, The New York Times did two back-to-back stories on the technology and how it is helping spread broadband to the boonies. Today Pyramid Research has released a report which says…
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Like it or not, MCI will remerge and create havoc in the market. The signs of price competition are already there. And it is having a bad effect on MCI/WorldCom as well. The company reported that it had a net loss of $35 million in September, and revenues fell to $1.95 billion. In comparison the [...]