The use of high speed (>34Mbit/s) within Europe

I hope this query is a reasonable use of this list. I have been asked to
come up with a summary of the use of high speed (which means more than E3 -
34Mbit/s in this context) in Europe. The query really means off campus,
rather than FDDI and Fast Ethernet within an organization. I have a
reasonable idea of the picture within the UK (SuperJANET, and the various
MAN initiatives), but my picture across Europe is much more patchy. There
are a few pointers that I have been given, and I've just emailed off some
specific queries to some folk (some of whom are also on this list, so
please forgive me for pestering you with a similar query).

So, please, if you know of any communication at these speeds that is
outside the "local area", please drop me an email. I would very much
appreciate a specific references that I can quote (URL to something pretty
and informative would be good). Anything outside the local area qualifies,
whether it is a few miles across a city, a national initiative, a
trans-european link, or even an international link. However, I really would
appreciate it if you could make the destinction between those things that
are actually shifting bits now, and those that are merely figments on a
proposal.

I will of course, summarise to the list.

	Denis.


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