Network Managers Worry as Company Failures Threaten High-Speed Upgrades

Networking experts in higher education are watching nervously as financial failures rock the telecommunications industry. The experts say the failures could end up delaying upgrades to high-speed research networks, and that one -- a bankruptcy in Europe -- has temporarily cut off high-speed, trans-Atlantic Internet service between Abilene, the Internet2 backbone in the United States, and its European counterpart, GĂ©ant.

How far such financial failures may extend is

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