DIAGRAM-1996-06: June and October 1996 global network diagrams and documented scope shift toward a global network (book narrative references global WAN diagrams began being created within 90 days of the Telecommunications Act enactment of February 1996)

 

 

July 1996 network diagram created in PageMaker documenting the hub shift from Hawaii to California. This is pre-Merchant Transport IPLC mutation that I introduced in September, 1996, and started implementing in January, 1997.
“DIGITAL ISLAND DRAFT.1,” July 1996, drawn in Aldus PageMaker: the hub labeled Walnut Creek, California (T-3 via Oroville), with T-1 spokes to Tokyo, Paris, London, and Hong Kong. The dated design record of the California hub decision; Hawaii appears nowhere on the drawing.