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To: im a survivor who wrote (304)	2/3/2005 4:57:11 PM
From: tech101	Respond to of 4245

I feel the following post from the InterNap board may carry some insightful information. The question is what company fits to the profile? ******************* Why Execs Are Selling by: maxwell_smart_1969 Long-Term Sentiment: Sell 02/02/05 07:05 am Msg: 171648 of 171832 Optical Revolution Increases Obsolescence of Legacy Carrier Networks Highly Efficient Layer One and Two Optical Networks Will Spell End of the Road for ATT, Sprint & MCI in Their Current Form Intelligent Acquisition Could Lead to Quick Write Offs of Obsolete Equipment & Result in Modernization of "Telco" Infrastructure An examination of the infrastructure of the Leading optical research networks (SURFnet 6, CA*Net4, and TransLight) shows that we may well be headed towards optical networks owned, built, and operated by enterprises and other large entities that are sources of, and/or, sinks for data, with the public Internet and carrier backbone networks merely acting as inter-connecting vehicles for private bit carriage. We examine the emergence of new enterprise-owned and -operated networks. These will be composed of hybrid networks that, for certain Quality of Service and security-mandated applications set up lightpaths, when needed, and then tear them down. Best-effort Layer 3 IP services for email and web browsing will utilize a separate allocation of bandwidth elsewhere within the optical spectrum of physical glass. This new enterprise-owned optical network is likely to be one that could switch lightpaths back and forth on an as-needed basis sending payloads over dedicated lightpaths where appropriate and needed, while best-effort routing continues to function on its own over intranet or Internet routes, thus filling in the gaps between highly mission-critical and business-as-usual applications.