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Emergency Internet Control Bill Gets Rewrite

editors — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:21:15 +0000

CNET
Sen. Jay Rockefeller alarmed technology and telecommunications firms last year when he announced a plan for the president to seize “emergency” control of the Internet. Now the West Virginia Democrat is trying again with a new version that aides hope will be seen as less extreme.

Topics: telecommunications, dark fiber, satellite, telecom

Google-Backed Undersea Cable Almost Complete

editors — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:10:34 +0000

WebProNews
An undersea cable that Google helped finance is almost finished, according to a new report. Indeed, the completion of the Unity fiber optic cable, which will connect the U.S. to Japan, is supposed to be announced next week, and then Google and the company’s Asia-based users should start seeing the benefits soon after.

Topics: undersea cable, fiber optic, Google, telecom, telecommunications

Windstream Double-Play Trims Line Loss

editors — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:30:55 +0000

Light Reading
Windstream is offering consumers a $59.99 double-play offer with 3-Mbit/s Internet access and unlimited local and long-distance calling that has a “for life” price guarantee. As a result, Windstream CFO Tony Thomas told the Credit Suisse Global Media and Communications Conference today, broadband penetration is up and access line losses in 2009 were below 5 percent.

Topics: ILEC, broadband, Windstream

Experts on plans for Pacific Fibre undersea cable

editors — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:21:47 +0000

Scoop.co.nz

As New Zealand only has one high-capacity link into the country today, I know major global data centre operators have not considered NZ as a suitable location, despite the fact that we have lower power prices, and greener power, than most of the other countries bidding. But we haven’t had redundant capacity and the low cost structures people are looking for.

- Brett O’Riley, CEO of NZICT

Topics: NZICT, New Zealand, broadband, telecom, launch, telecommunications, Australia

Liberty Exec Details D3’s ‘Sweet’ Economics

editors — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:14:02 +0000

Light Reading
Liberty Global Inc. (Nasdaq: LBTY) is spending on average about $20 per home passed for its rapid network buildout of Docsis 3.0, the platform the operator is using to deliver downstream speeds of 100 Mbit/s or more in portions of Europe.

Topics: Docsis 3.0, Liberty Global

Tata Dedicates Undersea Capacity For World Cup

editors — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:14:52 +0000

Fin24
A private telecommunications line will be set up during the World Cup soccer tournament to connect the international broadcasting centre in southern Johannesburg directly to Europe. Tata Communications will offer this international link in South Africa via the Seacom and SAT3 undersea telecommunications cables.

Topics: broadband, undersea cable, Qatar, telecom, telecommunications, ISP

Cable Breaks Out the ITV Drano

editors — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:00:24 +0000

Light Reading
One big technical challenge for EBIF is ensuring that applications don’t get corrupted or dropped altogether as they travel through the networks and pierce through processors, multiplexors, and other devices that apps will encounter as they travel inside video transport streams.

Topics: EBIF

Level 3’s Rare Carrier Win All About Extending the Middle Mile

editors — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:39:52 +0000

ConnectedPlanet
Count Level 3 as one of the few established telecom service providers to apply for – and this week win – federal broadband stimulus funding, with a pragmatic goal not of opening up broad new fiber vistas but rather extending its existing network and services where it makes business sense.

Topics: carrier, telecommunications, telecom, Level 3

Charter Passes 1 Million Homes With Docsis 3.0

editors — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:16:00 +0000

charter

Light Reading
Following an initial launch in St. Louis, Charter has made its 60-Mbit/s “Ultra” wideband tier available to about 1 million homes, Mike Lovett, Charter’s interim CEO, said on a conference call

Topics: Docsis 3.0, Charter Communications

New Fiber Platform Offered By Anova

editors — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:04:48 +0000

RFPConnect.com
Lit, or managed, fiber services from traditional carriers have a relatively lower price point but unfortunately exhibit higher latencies and zero control in terms of route or equipment improvements. Anova’s OptiWave service was created on the premise of eliminating this dilemma entirely.

Topics: Anova, telecom, networking, telecommunications, Chicago

VIDEO: Undersea Cable Strengthens Hawaii, Tahiti Link

editors — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:45:34 +0000

Big Island Video News
The 3,107 miles of undersea fiber optic cable, the first of its kind to connect the United states and French Polynesia, will allow Tahiti to access high speed internet. Officials hope it will dramatically improve communication services throughout all the islands of French Polynesia, (Bora Bora, Raiatea, Huahine, Moorea and Tahiti) allowing more affordable international broadband internet connectivity.

Topics: Tahiti, telecom, undersea cable, telecommunications, fiber optic

Force10 Networks To File For IPO

editors — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:35:32 +0000

Light Reading
Force10 Networks Inc. is finally going public, one year after getting acquired by Turin Networks. Specifics such as the price range haven’t been determined yet, but Force10’s registration, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, lists $143.75 million as the maximum amount to be raised.

Topics: Force10 Networks

Seahorse-1 Pan-Caribbean Subsea Cable Schedule Changed

editors — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:28:48 +0000

TeleGeography
The planned Seahorse-1 submarine fibre-optic cable linking Miami, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and potentially Cuba, has had its rollout schedule rearranged, BNamericas was told by Cobian International, the parent of the system’s developer Triton Telecom.

Topics: telecommunications, BNamericas, telecom, Cuba, undersea cable, Dominican Republic

Lisbon, Portugal Getting Gigabit FTTH

editors — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:07:11 +0000

Light Reading
This morning the service here on site was averaging between 600 Mbit/s and 700 Mbit/s, and peaking at about 800 Mbit/s (according to an on-screen meter), which would put the number of end-user connections served by a 2.5-Gbit/s GPON port at a maximum of four. (Indeed, the demo booth here had four terminals up and running.)

Topics: FTTH, Europe, broadband

Has Google Found a Use for Its Dark Fiber?

editors — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:33:34 +0000

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: telecommunications, launch, broadband, dark fiber, Google, USA, telecom