Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Dark fiber: Businesses see the light | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "When Ford Motor Co. decided to upgrade its corporate network in Dearborn, Mich., it sent in the backhoes.
The automotive giant sells cars, not telecommunications services. But, in a move that experts say increasingly makes sense for bandwidth-intensive business operations, Ford found that it would cost less to lay its own optical fiber lines than to subscribe to a service from the local phone company."
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The automotive giant sells cars, not telecommunications services. But, in a move that experts say increasingly makes sense for bandwidth-intensive business operations, Ford found that it would cost less to lay its own optical fiber lines than to subscribe to a service from the local phone company."