Metro area fiber market issues - May 2001 Cook Report contents

[Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com>]

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The COOK Report on Internet     May 2001 (Vol. 10, No. 2)
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CONTENTS

LayerOne Gear in Telco Hotels Provides Cost Effective Optical 
Interconnect for Carriers --- Ciena Core Director Provides Service 
that Grooms Circuit Interconnection Between Fiber of Many Carriers, 
pp. 1-14

Changing Bandwidth Provisioning Models in Metro Area Fiber Markets 
--- Net Access Chooses Acquisition of Dark Fiber and Self Provisioned 
Circuits Over Purchase of Shared Gig Ethernet Prices of Telseon and 
Yipes! Viewed as Too High and Cogent's Business Model Seen to Be 
Unsustainable, pp. 15 - 25

ICANN and Verisign in Alliance to Reinstate De-facto NSI Dot Com 
Monopoly in Return For Financial Support of ICANN --- ICANN's Pattern 
of Fraudulent and Deceitful Action Continues With Board's 
Capitulation to Staff and Vint Cerf in Melbourne, pp. 26-35

Optical Border Gateway Protocol Now Internet Draft,  pp. 36 -37

Letter to the Editor: DANTE Objects to Description  by Kees Neggers, pp. 37 -38

Executive Summary, pp. 39-40

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