"Virgin Atlantic will offer millions of passengers in Scotland and Manchester connections around the world through our and our partners' long-haul network, with the additional benefit of providing direct services to and from London Heathrow, " he said.

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The company installed 63 additional Private IP edge routers for a total of 915 edge routers in 245 sites throughout 63 countries, activated more than 1, 500 kilometers (932 miles) of ultra-long-haul network across the southern part of the United Kingdom, and completed a joint fiber build in Singapore, which almost doubles the coverage of the Singapore fiber-optic network.

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The Internet was designed so that long-haul communications could be disrupted anywhere along the web of network lines and still continue.

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Since US Airways' route network is made up largely of short-haul routes, US Airways customers typically redeem awards on partner airlines with more flights to domestic and international hot spots.

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Exploding usage of the Internet in the early 1990s drove the expansion of the network core, giving rise to the long-haul backbones of newcomers like WorldCom, Qwest, Williams Cos. and Level 3.

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It owns and operates a coal network made up of 2, 670 kilometers of heavy haul rail infrastructure in Central Queensland.

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He is attacking the heart of the problem, the metropolitan area network that bridges the "last mile" between businesses and long-haul networks.

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