An interesting tidbit of history: When I was on the design team for the Lucas Presidio Campus, we were collapsing all the various divisions to the new campus,

An interesting tidbit of history: When I was on the design team for the Lucas Presidio Campus, we were collapsing all the various divisions to the new campus, aside from Skywalker... I was the LV/Datacenter/network designer for the project. One of the early design requirements was to 1) have fiber to the desktop and 2) have every machine on an interconnect matrix which brought the edge desktop connections as close to the core as possible such that every workstation would become a part of the ender cluster when idle/at night/on-demand etc... This didnt happen but it was a goal back in ~2004 -- I recall them telling us when Jobs came to visit and they had the "Death Star" <-- render cluster they were working on... Lucas apparently saw no future and sold it to Jobs for ~$10mm?? and thats where Pixar got it start. That was an amazing fun project to work on. --- Oh - and during the design sessions, Cisco borked the design review for their (joke of a response) to the RFP, the then CIO for LucasArts in this design meeting with ILM, Lucas, Cisco others -- he says to the entire team in dead seriousness "When can I have power-over-fiber to the desktop" with a look like "Ha! GotchA! And everyone just blinked..