Home-run fiber is an increasingly popular choice for both technologies.
Home-run fiber is an increasingly popular choice for both technologies.
Colt (Nasdaq: COLT) is buttoning up the latency on its pan-European network by adding Infinera’s (Nasdaq: INFN) optical networking system into two of its key routes. With the Infinera systems in place, Colt claims it can offer services with 4.22 milliseconds of latency between London and Frankfurt and 2.65 milliseconds between Paris and Brussels routes. These [...]
In considering a network provider, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had three common requirements: a dedicated private network connection, 99.999 percent reliability, and sub 2ms latency. And the newspaper company found that FiberLight met those requirements. By adopting FiberLight’s LightSource@Ethernet service, which leverages a a redundant, dedicated, multi-node ringed platform, the Journal-Constitution will get a full Gbps [...]
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 Fortune [...]
Vertical Systems Group, which is known for its coverage of carrier Ethernet trends, is setting its focus on the emerging Ethernet Exchange market segment. Defining the market segment as a carrier-neutral marketplace solution to standardize and simplify Ethernet service interconnection among service providers, Vertical’s initiative will track drivers and risks, customer segmentation, deployment timing and [...]
US Signal, a Midwest regional business service provider, has broadened its Ethernet service presence further into the Ohio market with the addition of Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Dayton to its roster. This latest expansion will allow businesses that reside in these cities to use virtual Ethernet service as a basis for a number of applications, [...]
24/7 Fiber Network, an emerging wholesale fiber and Ethernet service provider, has just put the finishing touches on Phase One of its fiber network expansion. With Phase One of the network expansion complete, 24/7 will offer lit fiber services, including 10 GigE down to lower speed SONET and Ethernet over Copper (EoC) access services. Offering dark [...]
After deploying 100 Gbps optical technology on its optical core transmission networks in Europe, Verizon (NYSE:VZ) now wants to see how 100 GigE could fit into its Metro Ethernet network. Verizon did not have to look far to conduct this field trial. Instead of installing new gear, the carrier simply leveraged the Alcatel-Lucent’s 7450 ESS–the same [...]
While Ethernet has not only proven itself as an accepted data service and protocol for business customers, it is finding utility in two new market segments: Ethernet exchanges and wireless backhaul. According to Infonetics’ biannual 2010 Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN Services report, the worldwide IP MPLS VPN and Ethernet services markets continued growing amidst [...]