"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 … "This technology is more like Internet5," says Joe Mambretti, director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University."
10 gigabits per second optical networks! Sweet Home(page) Chicago. Ahem.
More at the Chronicle of Higher Education [via Tomalek’s Realm]