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Friday, March 15, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031501t.htm Once Hog Butcher for the World, Chicago Becomes a City of Advanced Optical Networks FLORENCE OLSEN Chicago -- once hog butcher for the world, the nation's freight handler, city of the big shoulders -- is becoming a city of futuristic networks. Academic researchers, politicians, and telecommunications executives have ambitions for making Chicago a major international hub for advanced laser-light networks. Researchers predict that such networks will be the workhorse technology for future generations of the Internet. "This technology is more like Internet5," says Joe Mambretti, director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University....
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