'Tis the time to look ahead at the opportunities and challenges we have in store for 2009.

2008 has given us some interesting starting points for the new year.  The economy is going through a roller coaster of speculation, recovery, opportunity, and of course huge losses in value. 

We are starting to see the old world of copper "land lines" fail (such as the bankruptcy of Hawaiian Telcom in Nov 2008).  The companies with money are aggressively expanding their long distance and local loop fiber optic networks in an attempt to keep ahead of demand driven by Internet and entertainment.  Examples of this are Verizon's FIOS and the AT&T U-verse.