... appears to stay focused on achieving higher speeds, even though our data rates already do everything we want. The real goal is to get that speed to everyone, and do it in a secure environment. WANs: After years of build-out in the long-haul telephone and Internet backbone networks, there's more than enough capacity to accommodate needs for the immediate future. The ... economic downturn has slowed the provisioning of all this capacity. Lots of dark fiber is available to light the future when necessary. MANs: This is the hot spot in the market today. Metro networks either fail to meet th...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... appears to stay focused on achieving higher speeds, even though our data rates already do everything we want. The real goal is to get that speed to everyone, and do it in a secure environment. WANs: After years of build-out in the long-haul telephone and Internet backbone networks, there's more than enough capacity to accommodate needs for the immediate future. The ... economic downturn has slowed the provisioning of all this capacity. Lots of dark fiber is available to light the future when necessary. MANs: This is the hot spot in the market today. Metro networks either fail to meet th...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School