$21 Million Grant Funds Fiber Optic Network
Cedartown Standard The U.S. Commerce Department’s NTIA has announced awarding of the grant to Appalachian Valley Fiber Network, a public/private partnership established to develop and expand broadband in the area. Topics: telecom, fiber optic, telecommunications, satellite
West African Undersea Cable to be Extended
Creamer Media’s Engineering News The West African Cable System (WACS), the submarine cable system that will connect South Africa and a number of African countries with Europe by the end of next year, would be extended from Portugal to the UK, technology provider Alcatel-Lucent has said. Topics: undersea cable, South Africa, Africa, telecom, telecommunications, Europe
Windstream Buying Q-Comm
CED Magazine KDL’s contiguous fiber network spans nearly 30,000 fiber route miles in 22 states. Norlight serves approximately 5500 small- and medium-size business… Topics: telecom, telecommunications, Windstream
Verizon Achieves 1Gbps Over Existing Network
TG Daily Verizon says it’s completed a field trial in which it delivered a 1Gbps service to an existing Fios business customer. Topics: GPON, networking, telecom, Verizon, telecommunications
AboveNet Lights Up Denver’s Dark Fiber Network Market
FierceTelecom AboveNet (NYSE: ABVT) has decided to tap into Denver, Colo.’s lucrative business services market, one that includes an array of Fortune 1000 companies, by building a new private metro fiber network. Spanning 97 route miles of 432 and 216 fiber cables, AboveNet’s Denver fiber network will deliver 23,000 fiber miles to support the area’s [...]
African Undersea Cable Glut May Spell Price War for Operators
Bloomberg After a decade of too little Internet capacity, telecommunications companies in Africa including Vodafone Group Plc and MTN Group Ltd. may face a different challenge: too much. Topics: Africa, telecommunications, undersea cable, telecom
Dark Fiber, Colocation, IP Transit, Service Provider and Other Industry Leaders Converge at Telecom One-on-One Event
TMCnet The partly cloudy summer Thursday in Manhattan was a day for deals to be made, for buzzwords like “colocation,” “dark fiber,” and “data center” to fly out of the mouths of small startup telecom execs, and for established service provides to make their presence known. Topics: telecom, Google, telecommunications, dark fiber
State Plans To Build Fiber Optic Along Interstate Highways
Vermont Public Radio A fiber optic cable will eventually follow the length of Vermont’s interstate highways. And as VPR’s John Dillon reports, that could be the foundation for extending high-speed Internet services to more areas of the state. Topics: telecom, telecommunications, fiber optic
Severed Deep-Sea Cable Disrupts Service
Honolulu Star-Advertiser A cable repair ship must be contracted by owners tw telecom and use pontoons to float the cable up to the service for repair. The process is likely to take up to five weeks, Santos said. The cable is a Prisma DT digital transport system by Georgia-based Scientific-Atlanta Inc., which is now part [...]
Seacom Says Undersea Cable Repairs Almost Complete
Creamer Media’s Engineering News Fibre-optic cable system operator Seacom on Thursday said that the physical repairs to the fault on the cable were in the final stages of completion, with the entire system undergoing testing before the cable is lowered back into the water. Topics: Seacom, telecommunications, FBI, telecom, undersea cable
Undersea Cable Co BMG Claims Rival Hinders Competition
Globes The Antitrust Authority has summoned BMG Telecom Ltd., to provide details for its complaint that the conduct of MedNautilus Ltd. is taking anti-competitive action to prevent plans to lay another undersea cable. BMG is laying an undersea cable from Israel to Cyprus, where it will connect with other undersea cables to Europe, North America, [...]
SPs Combat Cloud Hype
Light Reading Even as telecom service providers roll out cloud-based services with increasing sophistication, they are aware that all the current hype around anything with the word “cloud” attached is a mixed blessing that could serve to confuse and delay sales of strategically crucial services. Topics: telecom
Undersea Cable Linking Brazil and Africa Seen as Economic Priority
Creamer Media’s Engineering News Building an undersea cable to connect Africa to Brazil was high on Brazil’s agenda, Telkom Caribe CEO Mike Singh said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Submarine Networks World Africa 2010 conference, in Johannesburg, he noted that the development of an undersea cable connecting West Africa to Brazil was an economic priority [...]
Undersea Cable Network to Benefit Cuba’s Telephone Service
Xinhua The cable will cost 70 million U.S. dollars covering 804,500 km from La Guaira, Venezuela, to Santiago de Cuba, 1,384 km southeast of Havana. It will be extended to Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and the Lesser Antilles. The Franco-Chinese company Alcatel Shanghai Bell is responsible for its operation which started two months ago. Topics: [...]
Level 3 Connects New Transatlantic Route at Equinix London International
National Post Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT), a leading international provider of fiber-based communications services, today announced the opening of a new access node in Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) London 4/London5 (LD4/5) data center campus located on the outskirts of London. [...]
