Circuit City hired R/GA, an interactive advertising agency, to help with consumer research and site design--as much to inject new ideas into the process as to provide manpower, Riley says. BroadVision personnel also assisted with the work. Circuit City spent several million dollars on the research and redesign; Riley declined to provide specifics on the project's costs. The Web site is powered by some 30 Sun Microsystems servers running Solaris and an Informix 9.2 database running on an HP-UX server.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
