Time: Wed Dec 10 19:50:27 1997 To: "WTB" <justice@lsbsdi2.lightspeed.net> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: "Super Internet" Cc: Bcc: sls References: 100 GHz! 100,000,000,000 bits per second!! EEEOOOOWWW!!!! /s/ Paul Mitchell, Candidate for Congress http://supremelaw.com copy: Supreme Law School At 06:36 PM 12/10/97 -0800, you wrote: > > December 10, 1997 > > Fugro Will Provide Mapping > For CTR's 'Oxygen Project' > > Dow Jones Newswires > > Telecommunications start-up CTR Group has selected Dutch engineering > group Fugro NV to perform undersea mapping in preparation for its ambitious > $14 billion project to build a so-called "super Internet." > > The plan, known as the Oxygen Project, calls for the construction of a > 275,000-kilometer glass-fiber cable network that would transmit voice, data > and video at a minimum capacity of 100 gigabits a second. CTR hopes to > have the network operational beginning in 2000. > > Under the contract, Fugro will start investigating undersea cable routes in the > second quarter of 1998. Financial terms weren't disclosed. > > CTR, a privately held firm based in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., says its plan has > the backing of companies such as NEC Corp., Sumitomo Corp. and Mitsui & > Co., all of Japan; Alcatel Submarine Networks, a unit of France's > Alcatel-Alsthom SA; and Simplex Technologies Inc., a unit of Exeter, > N.H.-based Tyco International Ltd. > > The project's creator, Neil Tagare, who is also CTR's president, has already > met with some success funding a like project. He was behind the recently > completed Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe, the longest submarine cable at > 27,000 kilometers and the first undersea cable to be financed with private > money. > Return to top of page > > Copyright c 1997 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > > > >********************************************** >To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: > majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com >with the message: > subscribe ignition-point email@address >or > unsubscribe ignition-point email@address >********************************************** >http://www.telepath.com/believer >********************************************** > >
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