Level 3’s Rare Carrier Win All About Extending the Middle Mile
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: Level 3, telecom, carrier, [...]
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
Reding Replaced as Europe’s Telecom Watchdog
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Viviane Reding, the scourge of Europe’s carriers, is being given a new role at the European Commission, but her replacement is just as formidable
Topics: telecom, Europe, carrier
Carriers Cough Up for Cioffi
Light Reading
After years of self-containment, John Cioffi’s DSL management specialist Assia bags $10 million, with operators backing the vendor
Topics: carrier
China: 1 Billion Lines Served
Light Reading
China’s three major carriers reached the 1B threshold at the end of September, according to new data from the operators
Topics: China, carrier
China Unicom, Telefonica Strengthen Ties
Light Reading
Carriers invest in each other as they strengthen their alliance with plans to co-source technology and jointly develop service platforms
Topics: China, carrier
Ex-Cisco Exec Now an Ex-ADVA Exec
Light Reading
Ron Martin, hired to beef up ADVA’s cred with North American carriers, has moved on
Topics: North America, carrier
Nortel: We’re Winning New Biz in APAC
Light Reading
The head of Nortel’s Carrier Networks Asia group talks new business, customer concerns, and the big sell-off
Topics: Asia, carrier, Nortel
Level 3 Establishes New Fiber Route in Poland
TMCnet
By Patrick Barnard Level 3 Communications (News – Alert), Inc., a leading provider of long haul fiber optic network services for carriers and enterprises, has increased its network presence in Poland with the establishment of a new fiber route …
Topics: Level 3, telecom, carrier, Poland, telecommunications
ANDA Networks Carrier Ethernet NTE with EtherProbe Wins Best Access Product
Business Wire (press release), CA
ANDA Networks, the leader in carrier-class fiber and copper-based access platforms for wireline networks or wireless backhaul applications, today announced that its Carrier Ethernet EtherReach series network termination equipment with the new …
Topics: telecommunications, termination, wireless, telecom, server, carrier, Ethernet
USCarrier Telecom Extends Fiber Optic Network to Metro Birmingham
PR Newswire (press release), NY
USCarrier has more than 3400 route-miles of state-of-the-art fiber optic network in four states, monitored twenty-four hours, seven days a week. For more information on USCarrier and its products and services, visit the company Web site at …
Topics: VoIP, carrier, telecommunications, telecom
Reliance Globalcom Launches Enterprise Global Ethernet Service with VPLS Capabilities to 17 Countries
Business Wire (press release), CA
The Company’s fully managed infrastructure is further extended through its 65000 kilometers (km) of undersea cable assets, more than 21 network-to-network interface (NNI) agreements with key partners and more than 750 carrier relationships in …
Topics: telecom, carrier, countries, Ethernet, telecommunications, launch
Atlantic Metro Communications Partners with Waypoint Telecommunications to Expand Its Network and Services within the Mid-West
Business Wire
(BUSINESS WIRE)–Atlantic Metro Communications, a recognized SAS 70 managed network and service provider offering dark fiber and nation-wide colocation and IP transit, together with Waypoint Telecommunications, a regional facilities-based carrier in …
Topics: telecommunications, telecom, carrier, dark fiber
Data Center Partners with American Fiber Systems to Provide ‘Green’ Bandwidth
PR Web
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: Atlanta, networking, telecommunications, carrier, Ethernet, telecom, dark fiber
Undersea cable investments to grow despite recession
NetworkWorld.com
The projected growth in cable investment marks the biggest spike in undersea cable deployment since 2001, when carriers lit up 15 new undersea cables and spent $13.5 billion on cable construction costs. TeleGeography says that today’s carriers are able …
Topics: telecommunications, construction, carrier, telecom
