Archive for April, 2009
IBM to Rebrand, Sell Brocade's VoIP-Enabling Enterprise Switches, Routers
TMCnet
Brocade products that IBM already rebrands and sells include the multiprotocol Brocade DCX Backbone along with Fiber Channel directors, standalone and embedded switches, host bus adapters and related software. According to Brocade’s chief executive…
Topics: telecommunications, telecom, IBM, software, VoIP, embedded
Uganda Business News: Undersea cable to reduce phone calling rates
UGPulse.com, Uganda
The Laying of the Sh10.4 billion ($130 million) undersea fibre optic cable called the East Africa Marine System has started. The laying of the cables, which begun on Friday, it is expected to take two months, and is expected to be complete by the end…
Topics: Africa, telecom, telecommunications
AT&T cuts cord on VoIP service
CNET News, CA
U-verse is a new fiber network that AT&T is building to deliver high-speed broadband, TV, and phone service to consumers. Like the cable companies, AT&T is bundling the voice service with TV and broadband. Verizon Communications also recently shut down…
Topics: telecom, consumer, telecommunications, Verizon, broadband, VoIP
”Micro-trenches” equal wider broadband access
Humboldt Beacon, CA
To lay the required fiber optic cables, existing streets must be cut and then deeply dredged so crews can get to the buried utilities and set the new lines. Traffic must be re-routed around the construction, which causes additional problems (and costs)…
Topics: broadband, construction, telecom, telecommunications
Navies to guard undersea cable from Somali pirates
Washington Post, United States
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Foreign navies have agreed to protect a vessel installing an undersea high-speed Internet cable from pirates off the coast of Somalia, a Kenyan minister said on Thursday. Sea gangs from lawless Somalia have been increasingly…
Topics: Washington, Somalia, telecom, telecommunications, United States
AGL Completes Fiber Expansion into i/o Data Centers' New Data Center
TMCnet
The company constructs and operates dark fiber optic networks and provides last mile connectivity between telecommunications service providers and business customers. Several Web properties and enterprises use i/o Data Centers’ broad range of…
Topics: fiberoptic, telecommunications, telecom, dark fiber, Phoenix
Mohawk Industries Multiplies Bandwidth by Connecting to American Fiber Systems’ Atlanta Backbone
Trading Markets (press release), CA
Recently named #162 Inc. Magazine’s Top 5000 Fastest Growing companies, American Fiber Systems provides metropolitan networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services to carriers and large and mid-sized enterprises in ten markets nationwide.
Topics: telecommunications, dark fiber, carrier, networking, telecom, Atlanta
Nigeria: Mainone Under Sea Cable's Kommandor Jack Begins Route Survey
All Africa ICT, Africa
MainOne Cable Company announced at the weekend that it has started the main route survey operations of its submarine cable project. The project is expected to extend from Portugal to Nigeria and Ghana respectively and will comprise 1.92 terabits per…
Topics: telecom, Africa, telecommunications
Reliance Connects spends $3 million for high-speed link to St. George
Desert Valley Times, UT
“We followed roads except for one cross-country jog,” Oster said as he drove along the newly-completed fiber route on a cool Tuesday morning in March. “We normally go four feet down, but we went nine feet deep in the washes…
Topics: telecom, telecommunications
Service restored in Silicon Valley after fiber cut
CNET News, CA
Thieves twice in a 48 hour period stole tiber optic cable in the Pacific Northwest, thinking it was metal. by lkrupp April 10, 2009 9:56 AM PDT I wonder why these particular fibers didn’t have an alternate route. Anyone in the telecom industry knows…
Topics: fiber cut, telecom, fiberoptic, outage, telecommunications
Clarks Telecommunications Partners with Clearfield in NE Nebraska FTTH Deployment
Utility Products Magazine, OK
“If we have some continuity at each of these sites, it makes it easier for our people to troubleshoot and route fiber jumpers.” Area residents who will benefit from the FTTH overbuild are understandably excited for the May 2009 “turn-up.”
Topics: telecom, telecommunications, ISP, fiberoptic
