Answer: The Top500 Project
The winner of our fourth trivia question is Yuko Kimma. Yuko, great job! You will receive a Finisar t-shirt.
Stay tuned for our final trivia question later today and your chance to win a Finisar t-shirt. Don’t forget that all submissions are entered into a final grand prize drawing for a Pico Projector featuring LCoS technology. The winning name will be announced on the Lightspeed blog during the last week of March.
Question: What is the name of the project that ranks and details the 500 (non-distributed) most powerful known supercomputer systems in the world?
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Answer: 1983: New York and Washington, D.C.
The winner of our third trivia question is Alex G. Alex, congrats…we will send you a Finisar t-shirt!
Keep on playing. There are only a few questions remaining and most of you are on a roll. Stay tuned for trivia question #4 and your chance to win a Finisar t-shirt.
This week Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC, and Finisar announced the successful completion on February 25th of the first real traffic 100G optical fiber transmission field trial applying standards-based optics end-to-end. This is the first multi-vendor demonstration of real traffic transmission on a single optical fiber. I invite you to read the full press release.
The photo below shows Finisar 100G CFP modules for the Verizon end-to-end field trial with Verizon, NEC, Juniper and Finisar.
Question: When did AT&T install the first fiber-optic cable in its long distance network and between what two cities?
Provide your answer using the blog commenting tool (only one answer allowed per person). The fifth person to answer correctly wins a Finisar t-shirt (previous winners excluded). There will be a slight delay before your response is posted. Check back later this week for the winning name.
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Trivia Contest | Rafik Ward | 
March 17, 2010 11:35 am | 
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