Pronto, part deux

摘要

In the fall of 1999, when competi- tive service providers were experiencing much better health and managing to lure customers from incumbents, SBC Communications prepared to strike back. It outlined plans to transform and upgrade its network so it wouldn't be left with services and a network from the past. But that $6 billion Project Pronto plan, targeted at readying the SBC footprint for DSL, ignored a huge portion of the market: small and medium-sized businesses. Now the provider wants to fill the gaping hole with broadband passive optical networking (BPON).