On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

It may have something to do with the possibility that GoogleNet will need an infrastructure to tie together it's WiFi offering:

Or... perhaps they just don't want to pay transit prices, and they think darkfiber and all its accutriments will be less than transit prices (which I don't want to debate, I'll take it on faith it is), for all their 'internal' communications? There are probably a dozen reasons, ending with: "Vint wants a new network to play with" ... It's their money, let them put it back into the economy? :)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092000...

- ferg

-- Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:

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I'm kind of surprised that I hadn't seem mention of it here before now, but Om Malik points out in his blog that Google is reviewing bids for it's natioal DWDM network:

http://gigaom.com/2005/09/19/google-asks-for-googlenet-bids/

There seems to be a trend whereby anyone who can aggregate sufficient traffic to warrant their own IP network is doing so and offloading the so-called public Internet. In the case of Google it is reminiscent of the way the television networks aggregated broadcast content way back in the 60's.

Ten years ago, the idea that there could be a public Internet which anyone could use for any purpose was rather new. Is this concept now on the decline?

--Michael Dillon

-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/