Archive for February, 2010
Has Google Found a Use for Its Dark Fiber?
Data Center Journal Discounting conspiracy theories about Google attempting to take over the world, several possibilities concerning the company’s purpose in buying up dark fiber have been considered over the past half decade. Topics: USA, telecom, launch, broadband, dark fiber, Google, telecommunications
Undersea Cable Coming to South Africa
Times LIVE Telkom said in a statement that it was the landing partner for EASSy in South Africa and hosted one of the nine undersea telecommunications cables that will connect various parts of Sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world by 2011. Topics: telecom, South Africa, undersea cable, Africa
Google’s FTTH: Does Huawei Win?
Light Reading Google is notorious for demanding low prices and threatening to build the equipment itself if that demand isn’t met. (“There’s not a lot of love between systems vendors and Google,” Griliches says.) Huawei is famous for undercutting the competition on price. It would be an easy matchup. Topics: North America, Google, FTTH, Huawei
Femtos To Go Macro
Light Reading Expect to see lots of wild and wacky demos in Barcelona next week from home base-station vendors for all of the things you can do with a femto when it’s at home or in the office. Topics: 3G, femtos
Zayo Bandwidth Lights Low-Latency Fiber Route
PR Newswire Zayo Bandwidth announced that it has deployed a low latency route between major carrier hotels in New York and Chicago. The route, which was built on Zayo Bandwidth’s operated network, was deployed in order to support algorithmic trading requirements for financial and carrier customers. Topics: Zayo Bandwidth, telecommunications, telecom
So, That’s What All of Google’s Dark Fiber Was For
O’Reilly Radar What is becoming very clear is that Google wants to have a finger in, if not own, most of the pie when it comes to how consumers and business access their information. Topics: telecommunications, Google, telecom, dark fiber
15,000 KM Long Undersea Cable To Land In Gibraltar
Panorama A consortium of 16 telecommunications companies, including Gibtelecom, have signed an agreement to construct the ‘Europe-India Gateway’, a submarine cable that will span 15,000km from the UK to India following the UK-India route of 130 years ago. Gibraltar will be one of the landing points for the cable. Topics: telecom, Gibtelecom, Europe, India, telecommunications, [...]
Cox Finding Ethernet Success in Verticals
Light Reading Cox Communications Inc. has long been the cable industry’s leader in delivering Carrier Ethernet services, but even with other cable operators now focusing more on business services, Cox actually widened the gap in the Vertical Systems Group ‘s 2009 Global U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard. Topics: Ethernet, carrier, Cox Communications
Main One Undersea Cable Nears Completion
Nigerian Compass Newspaper – …all the news. all the time Still basking from the excitement that attended the completion of Glo 1 undersea cable at the twilight of last year by Nigeria’s second national operator, Globacom, Main One Cable Company has announced the commencement of the final laying of its high capacity fibre optic cable [...]
Vodafone Qatar, GBI Sign Cable Landing Agreement
MarketWatch Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s newly established, privately owned submarine cable operator, is announces that Vodafone Qatar, Qatar’s rapidly growing new mobile operator, will provide a landing station for GBI’s cable in Qatar. Topics: telecom, Middle East, Qatar, Gulf Bridge International, telecommunications
Taiwan Strait Undersea Cable Coming
What’s on Xiamen The project, which will be jointly carried out by China Telecom and its Taiwan counterpart Chunghwa Telecom, will start construction soon and is expected to be completed and put into operation by year’s end. The cable will be laid under the Taiwan Strait to link the mainland’s Xiamen city and Taiwan’s outlying [...]
Supercomm Is Dead?
Light Reading The 2010 Supercomm, slated for the week of Oct. 25 in Chicago, is being canceled, a source from a would-be exhibitor tells Light Reading. Topics: telecom
