The maneuver also required distributing fifty-seven tons of new maps, uprooting and reinstalling an extensive signal-wire network, and stockpiling fuel and ammunition, including shells for twelve hundred guns in the army's 108 artillery battalions.

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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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Led by the fast-talking David McCourt , RCN (as in Residential Communications Network) once bragged it would wire up 9 million cable, phone and Internet users among 25 million homes mostly in the northeastern corridor.

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"We would wire the body with what would look like a computer network, " Peckham says.

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Before now both have needed a visit by technicians to wire up homes and get domestic computers authorised to use to Telewest network.

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In the early days of FORBES magazine, which was founded 90 years ago, "network" referred to a chain of radio stations hooked up by wire--and, long before that, to intersecting roads, canals, railways and telegraph lines.

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