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Google Apps: The Missing Manual

In turn, the future of broadband is about more than the "convergence" of voice, video, and data onto one platform, or simply improved version of services we already know, like higher quality streaming video. Faster, bigger broadband pipes can certainly bring us that, but they can also enable novel creations that we cannot yet imagine. In other words, more broadband doesn't just mean more of the same -- more is different.

O3b Networks’ operational and technical development is well underway. Production of the initial constellation of 16 satellites has begun. The system’s 2,133 transponder equivalents will deliver low-latency Internet backhaul at speeds reaching 10 gigabits per second. Service activation is scheduled for late 2010. The scalable nature of the system allows for additional satellites to increase capacity and meet growing demand.

I did a long needed update to the World of Fiber map.