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How To Predict The Future

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We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016.

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Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

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In late 2006, Zayo was a pure start-up headquartered behind Nick and Willy’s on 8th and Pearl. In June of 2006, we sold what remained of ICG Communications to Level 3. Instead, we sought to provide raw fiber, wavelengths, ethernet, IP, and technical space to those entities that needed a whole lot of bandwidth.

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