August 9, 2002

Network Managers Worry as Company Failures Threaten High-Speed Upgrades

By FLORENCE OLSEN

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, Géant.

How far such financial failures may extend is

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