The open-top counterpart to the Superleggera, Spyder Performante is 143 pounds lighter than its predecessor, the Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder, thanks to the enormous amount of carbon fiber used in its body and components.
Worldcom was one of the first carriers to deploy a newfangled technology called "dense wavelength division multiplexing" (FORBES, Oct. 7, 1997) that greatly increases the amount of traffic an existing fiber-optic cable can carry.