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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6599)	6/8/2000 8:52:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: Too much capacity...blah, blah... Thread- Funny how the usual "too much capacity" pundits have been laying low the last few months(click back through 'who wrote' for a few past details). I'm pretty sure they will start up again at some point in the next six months or so. I have no idea what triggers the cycle, but it seems to come and go, wrecking havoc with the carrier's carrier companies. But they always seem to under estimate the new ways in which bandwidth will be hogged. Take the one below for instance. I wish Cisco put some data figures to the PR. I'm certain it must have been a HUGE amount of bandwidth. Can you imagine what it will be like when ALL movie theaters are hooked up digitally. Not to even mention all the rollouts of interim broadband access technologies we discuss here on the Last Mile. -MikeM(From Florida) *********************** Cisco Makes Motion Picture History with First-Ever Internet Transported and Digitally Screened Movie** Twentieth Century Fox's Animated Action Adventure Epic, TITAN A.E., Entertains Supercomm Attendees ATLANTA June 7, 2000-- Cisco Systems made motion picture history yesterday when Cisco became the first company ever to digitally transmit a film over a coast-to-coast network. Twentieth Century Fox's animated action adventure epic TITAN A.E. was a hit with audiences who attended the digital premiere at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. "The success of the TITAN A.E. premiere demonstrates the unique power of the Internet as an effective business and entertainment resource," said Larry Lang, vice president of service provider marketing at Cisco. "Working with Twentieth Century Fox to support the first-ever digital transmission of a movie over the Internet has been a great experience. And to transmit the movie in a little over two hours is phenomenal. This application of Internet technology has the potential to revolutionize movie creation and distribution as well as unleash new opportunities for movie studios and exhibitors worldwide. TITAN A.E. was transmitted from Qwest Communications International Inc.'s CyberCenter in Los Angeles to a theater in Atlanta over a highly secure Cisco New World IPSec Virtual Private Network (VPN). The transmission took approximately two hours, and used Internet technology from Cisco including Cisco 12000 Series Internet routers running over a high-speed fiber backbone and Cisco 7140 VPN and security routers with integrated firewall and hardware Triple DES encryption....

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6599)	6/13/2001 1:05:13 PM
From: MikeM54321	Respond to of 12823

Re: MCI Chief Sees Big Outlays to Handle Net Traffic Thread- While reviewing notes I had posted on Sprint's ION project, I came across this year old piece about WCOM's spending plans. Oh what a difference a year makes. -MikeM(From Florida) *********************** MCI Chief Sees Big Outlays to Handle Net Traffic By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 3/7/2000 In good news for richly valued telecommunications equipment providers, MCI-WorldCom president Bernard J. Ebbers estimated his company may have to spend as much as $100 billion over the next three years upgrading its network to handle an explosion in data and Internet traffic**. Ebbers, appearing at a New Economy summit at Boston College, said MCI has recently had to add capacity to its global network at a rate of 800 percent annually to keep up with soaring demand for Net traffic. If demand continues to grow at that rate, and Ebbers gave no indication he doubts it will, by 2003 MCI-WorldCom could have to spend cumulatively $40 billion for routers, $40 billion for facilities to keep signals moving over fiber-optic lines, and $20 billion just for power lines and support for 'signal regeneration' sheds. By 2003 MCI-WorldCom may have to add as much bandwidth capacity every day as it recently has added in an entire year, Ebbers said, citing what he said were new in-house projections. Ebbers's estimates come in the context that he is trying to get federal approval for the company's planned $130 billion merger with...... Message 13134431