Uunet alone zaps perhaps half of the world's Net bits, and 30% of all Web sites transmit their pages on Uunet's 300, 000 miles of fiber.

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But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They had all seen Williams Communications win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber web (Wiltel) and then a second.

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But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They all had seen rival Williams Communications win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber web (Wiltel) and then a second.

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But their natural enmity was overcome by envy: They all had seen rival Williams Communications (nyse: WCG - news - people) win Wall Street cachet by parlaying its own rights-of-way into first one fiber Web (Wiltel) and then a second.

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Izzo credits the "spider web" like network of copper wire, paired with coaxial and fiber crossing underneath city streets, for the network's durability.

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For communicators, however, the impact may prove to be still more profound as Google Fiber speeds the migration of video and broadcast programming onto the web.

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The threat we face today is a completely new paradigm of global terrorist networks operating in a high-velocity digital age using the Web and fiber-optic technology.

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