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AT&T Readies 40-Gig Backbone

Craig Matsumoto writes on Light Reading:

AT&T Inc. is gearing up for its OC768 (40 Gbit/s) backbone expansion starting next year, CTO John Stankey told Globalcomm attendees this morning.

Delivering the second-day keynote to a packed room, Stankey outlined AT&T's overall plan following on the completed merger with SBC and the pending BellSouth Corp. acquisition. Most of his talk involved lots of big numbers -- 5.6 petabytes of traffic per day traversing AT&T's network, for instance -- and breathless proclamations about the cornucopia of cool but really vague "converged" services coming for consumers and businesses.

All that -- plus Project Lightspeed, AT&T's initiative to bring broadband to the home -- translates to massive network growth. Hence the OC768 buildout, which Stankey said will be placed "in key routes between 31 cities throughout AT&T's U.S. backbone network."

posted by Fergie @ 6/06/2006 10:21:00 AM