Force10's "Open Cloud Networking" technology essentially allows customers to transform their network infrastructures into an open datacenter and cloud computing fabric.
Injecting social infrastructure into a development was, said Allies, "a complicated dynamic" that required an unusual skill set.
Sprint has already been converting much of its existing infrastructure into a Long Term Evolution network, which uses a faster data technology used by the newest smartphones.
It just needs to create the perception that, with a few twists of the screwdriver, it is capable of turning a peaceful nuclear infrastructure into a weapons program, in a matter of months.
"What was compelling from the start," Mr. Soderquist said, "was repurposing existing infrastructure into a generator of clean energy, with a second revenue stream from people paying you to take their waste".
When he began taking the pictures, he was working as an electrician and engaged by the ideas of artists like Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark, whose explorations of urban decay and entropy had made America's crumbling infrastructure into a new canvas for art.
The final plan devotes more than $100 billion to public works projects -- but that is only a fraction of the $2.2 trillion that the American Society of Civil Engineers says is needed to put the nation's infrastructure into a state of good repair.
Now, the startup wants to turn its robust infrastructure into a highly usable developer platform with a very simple API.
But according to Lamb, that consolidation may also turn a business's IT infrastructure into a larger, more unified target for hackers.
"But they've abruptly expanded the way they use the networks, turning their content-hosting infrastructure into a search infrastructure as well".
