The New Web Will Need a New Network
GigaOM, June 24, 2011
By Stacey Higginbotham
The fiber boom is back, but the next generation network isn't just more fiber, it's an entirely new type of network that fits what we now expect the web to do: Be smarter and be everywhere we are. One company is building a new kind of fiber network that combines not just network materials but also data centers to bring connectivity at competitive places over more and more of the country.
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