The teen-clothing retail operates 1, 100 stores across the country, operating its namesake, Aerie and 77kids brands.
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It will start slowly, and Aerie will fire up the new fiber only as demand warrants.
American Eagle started with three aerie stores in 2006 and grew the brand to 137 stores in 2009.
The suite previously served as the aerie of the late Steve Ross, when he was chairman of Time Warner.
"It was kind of a David-and-Goliath situation, " recalls Mark Sweeney, a director at pipeline Sempra Energy, who negotiated with Aerie.
Aerie crams in 432 lines, enough to transmit 300 years of content of an average newspaper 800 times per second.
Aerie crams in 432 lines, enough to transmit 300 years of the content of an average newspaper 800 times a second.
Yet by late August 1999 Aerie still hadn't signed a single pipeline.
American Eagle markets aerie primarily to young women aged 15 to 25.
The idea for Aerie was hatched in August 1998, when Aaronson was working at KN Energy, then one of the nation's largest pipeline operators.
The idea is to wholesale ultracheap bandwidth, says Aaronson, Aerie's president.
The aerie collection has grown strongly since its launch in 2006.
Desperate for a way to show the pipelines they were better off together, an Aerie executive used game theory to design a mock online auction of rights-of-way.
Hugo is a spectator, always peering out at something, and the Paris he sees from his aerie is tinted dark blue, with glistening white lights the colors of wonder.
American Eagle is also increasing the number of aerie store.
When Aerie hosted the first face-to-face gathering with all of them last fall, Aaronson hoped to give up only 20% equity to get hold of 23, 000 kilometers of rights-of-way.
When Aerie hosted the first face-to-face gathering with all of them last fall, Aaronson hoped to give up only 20% equity to get hold of 14, 400 miles of rights-of-way.
The aptly named Mr. Jungles working with a boxy 5, 000-square-foot house situated on a nondescript 14, 240-square-foot corner plot began with the idea of an adult-size aerie that was tethered to the ground.
"It was kind of a David-and-Goliath situation, " recalls Mark Sweeney , a director at pipeline Sempra Energy (nyse: SRE - news - people), who negotiated with Aerie.
The idea for Aerie was hatched in August 1998, when Aaronson, a nine-year veteran at the old MCI, was working at KN Energy, then one of the U.S.' largest pipeline operators.
The idea for Aerie was hatched in August 1998, when Aaronson, a nine-year veteran at the old MCI, was working at KN Energy, then one of the nation's largest pipeline operators.
And no-name Aerie had to face down multibillion-dollar titans.
And while Aaronson will sell space to long-distance carriers, he is betting a new class of customer will emerge--companies bent on creating and selling new uses for all that fiber--and that Aerie will be the low-cost provider.
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