The network story unfolds.

The article focuses on developments related to networking. In the U.S., Sprint launched a mobile Wimax service in September 2008, and Clearwire already had a fixed wireless service, but a joint venture between the two companies has been slow to emerge. For the last couple of years, the industry has been complaining about sprawling network and server equipment in the datacentre. Juniper also announced plans to get into the datacentre with its edge routing equipment, which is a significant green move because it simplifies the aggregation layer of a network, says Keith Humphreys, managing consultant at analyst euroLAN. Internet service providers and carriers face business pressures as people access increasing amounts of content.