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French publisher Hachette Livre has gained economies of scale and lowered the price of the bandwidth it uses by leasing dark fibre from European cloud services operator Interoute. Hachette Livre's head of ICT, Serge Bellier, said the cost was the same to lease dark fibre and operating it itself or to lease a line run at a limited speed from a major operator.

Interoute is the owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform. They serve international enterprises and telecommunications operators worldwide, with voice, video, computing and high capacity international data bandwidth and network infrastructure.

Interoute's have two Fast Ethernet products, one based on Ethernet over SDH and Wavelengths and one based on Ethernet over MPLS.

The following is an article that explores the potential (and frequently realised) uses of Fast Ethernet in both the personal sphere and that of business.