[15] Exhibit 15: WIRED — “Nonstop to Fiber” (Alex Salkever, Jul 1, 1997)
Contemporaneous third-party reporting that describes Digital Island as offering “one-hop data transmission … via a server hub based in Honolulu” and argues Hawaii is ideal to bypass mainland NAP bottlenecks because “plenty of transoceanic fiber passes through” the state. The article also identifies Digital Island’s CTO (Allan Leinwand) and references Cisco signing on as a customer in late 1996.
(Use: independent press corroboration of the public Hawaii-hub narrative + 1996 Cisco timeframe; not a control document.)
