4 posts and columns on dark fiber

Kara Visits GigaOm's Structure 08

in News on June 27, 2008 at 5:05 pm PT

With all the Yahoo reorganization noise this past week–full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, if you want to go all literary!–BoomTown had little time to post our video on GigaOm’s Om Malik’s Structure 08 conference on Wednesday. Held at the spanking new Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, it was high-wonk, packed with CTOs and those involved in building the guts of the Internet and its infrastructure, whose jobs are becoming more complicated than ever as Internet usage booms.

New From Google: Google Undersea Data Cable

in News on February 26, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It's From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir

in News on February 26, 2008 at 5:27 am PT

If your corporate mission is to organize the world’s ever-increasing mass of digital information and make it universally accessible and useful, sooner or later the telecom costs and peering fees associated with the transmission of that information are going to get, you know, quite large. So large, in fact, that it may make sense to build out your own network.

The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It’s From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir

in News on February 26, 2008 at 5:27 am PT

If your corporate mission is to organize the world’s ever-increasing mass of digital information and make it universally accessible and useful, sooner or later the telecom costs and peering fees associated with the transmission of that information are going to get, you know, quite large. So large, in fact, that it may make sense to build out your own network.