TSI, I've not forgotten your (or ftth's) posts. Not hardly. I just find time tight, and on these matters I need to get into the idiom before anything meaningful comes out. Maybe this will help.
We've had meet-mes, Internet eXchanges, an endless number of _x_IXes, peering points, pooling points, NAPs, INAPs. How about an FTZ, or a Free Trade Zone? Better yet, how about an umbrella architecture to aggregate all of 'em? Nah. That would just lead to more umbrellas.
They just keep on a' comin'. Check out this cast of characters. From ConvergeDigest:
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SIGMA NETWORKS RAISES $435 MILLION FOR METROPOLITAN AREA INTERCONNECT NETWORK
Sigma Networks, a start-up service provider backed by former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, Marc Andreessen, Cisco Systems and a number of venture capital firms, announced its intention to build a “a free trade zone between network providers and bandwidth purchasers.”
Sigma Networks plans to offer wholesale optical links interconnecting Internet backbones, data centers, traffic aggregation points, and last mile broadband service providers within metropolitan markets.
The new company has raised $435 million in equity and debt financing. Sigma Networks is based in San Jose, California.
sigmanetworks.com
Sigma Networks, February 23, 2001
Sigma Networks is headed by John Peters (CEO), who formerly served as Executive Vice President for Concentric Network Corporation from 1995 through 1999.
It network engineering team includes Bill Euske (formerly a cofounder of NorthPoint Communications), Scott Young (formerly VP of Network Implementation at AT&T Canada), and Bob Decker (formerly Senior VP for Network Systems Engineering at MCI WorldCom). |