Tools Free java scripts, clipart, fonts, and perl scripts from the premiere web development network. Free Microsoft Office XP Receive a FREE 30-day trial including Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Office XP including Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The Value Chain By Ruth Suarez Zane for Fiber Optics News via Gale Group Fears of an imminent world capacity glut, along with a wounded telecom financing market, make every day a struggle for fiber optic backbone providers. These carriers' carriers are spending a lot of energy trying to scrape together the money they need for expansion, while concocting new strategies to keep carrier and ISP customers from jumping aboard competitors' networks. The worsening economic market is forcing backbone providers, and ISPs as well, to re-evaluate the services provided to corporate customers.
Capital markets are no longer enthusiastic.
Part of the market's downfall has been high cost infrastructure buildouts and premature market forecasts. Companies are going to be looking at how they can reduce transmission costs. NetRail, a tier-one wholesale IP service provider, has a leased backbone network that spans 20,000 miles and includes more than 50 points of presence nationwide. There are transit backbone services that don't have a low-cost base. These companies got in the game early and signed long-term contracts with providers.