Where in the world is Ethernet guru Craig Easley today? Barely a month after announcing that he took up the VP of marketing reins at Sunrise Telecom, Easley has now popped up at Accedian Networks, a provider of Ethernet performance assurance Network Interface Devices (NIDs), as the company’s new VP of marketing. No explanation of [...]
TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN.ST) is joining the growing chorus of service providers that want to better understand the capabilities of 100 Gbps networking. As one of the first real-time, single wavelength 100G field trials in Europe, TeliaSonera demonstrated a single wavelength, real-time coherent 127 Gbps PM-QPSK (Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) modem from Opnext (NASDAQ:OPXT) [...]
Main One Company, an undersea cable service provider offering open access, wholesale broadband capacity in West Africa, completed the first phase of the Main One Cable System with system supplier SubCom. Set to be up and running by June, SubCom has installed terminal equipment in Seixal, Portugal with installation begun at landing sites in Lagos, [...]
XO’s (XOHO.OB) Q1 earnings, similar to its Q4 09 results, illustrated that the economic crisis that affected businesses throughout 2009 is in a hangover period. As a result of the still staggering economy, XO reported a net loss of $16.6 million, which was $12.1 million above the $4.5 million net loss it saw in Q1 [...]
CFN, a managed service provider that prides itself on delivering ultra low-latency services, has deployed Cyan’s Z-Series as it expands its presence in the Frankfurt and London financial markets. Similar to other carriers targeting the financial market segment, CFN has seen a growing demand for ultra low latency 10 Gbps Ethernet transport between European’s major [...]
While Google’s Nexus One phone was supposed to rattle the wireless status quo by offering users unsubsidized phones via a Google store, the promised revolution never arrived. That was due to a number of factors, including the fact that the phone came with 3G bugs and annoying fees but not with phone support (Google fixed [...]
Now that’s fast. During this week’s SubOptic trade show, UK-based Apollo Submarine Cable System (SCS) and Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) demonstrated the ability to transmit 3 Tbps across the Atlantic Ocean via 72 40 Gbps channels. Conducted over a distance of 6,211 km on Apollo’s North Cable system, which links the U.S. and the U.K, Apollo [...]
Seeing growing demand from multinational enterprise customers, Verizon Business (NYSE:VZ) is yet again expanding its European network and laying a foundation to activate the Europe India Gateway (EIG) submarine cable network system. Included in its new European network upgrade cycle are three main initiatives: expanding the European Ultra Long Haul (ULH) network; adding more MPLS nodes [...]
We’ve seen no limit of insane 3G bills incurred by people who don’t understand the concept of overage penalties while in the States — or the steep overages they can incur by taking their phone (or tethered laptop) overseas. In Europe, regulators have tackled this problem by passing rules that cap roaming fees between carriers. [...]
Latin America’s telecom market, much like its landscape, is a diverse tapestry of everything from traditional wireline voice services to next generation networks (NGNs) consisting of fiber and DOCSIS-based broadband, VoIP and 3G wireless. But as Jose Otero, President of Signals Consulting explains, Latin American service providers face a number of regulatory challenges in obtaining [...]