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/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
