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Arvig Communications, which serves some 66,000 customers in rural Minnesota, has selected Cyan’s packet-optical transport solutions to upgrade its network.
The deployment includes Cyan’s Blue Planet, a software-defined network (SDN) system, and Z-Series packet-optical transport platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
