Fiber Optic Telecommunications Networks: There's room yet in the cloud

James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

There's room yet in the cloud

GOOGLE'S commitment to cloud computing has forced Microsoft to unclench its desktop hold, Apple to join in (somewhat slowly and in meagre ways), Yahoo! to flail, and legions of other firms to follow suit, Facebook key among them. But there's an opening in the cloud: simple online storage that looks and acts like a hard drive. (Google lets you store up to a gigabyte at no cost on Google Docs but requires its web interface to manage access.)