Home-run fiber is an increasingly popular choice for both technologies.
XO Communications (OTC BB: XOHO.OB) has just completed its trial of 100 Gbps coherent optical transmission on a 1348 km route on its U.S. network. During the trial, XO leveraged Infinera’s (Nasdaq: INFN) 500 Gbps photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which integrate five 100 Gbps channels. The Infinera 500 Gbps PICs transmitted and received a 100 [...]
With Carlos Slim’s consolidation of his Telmex Internacional (NYSE: TII) and America Movil (NYSE: AMX) holdings now complete, Telmex is going to turn its attention to upgrading its wireline broadband network with up to 20 Mbps speed capabilities to more effectively compete with cable competitors. To make this speed jump, Telmex will leverage the majority of its 2010 [...]
Three times now, AT&T and Time Warner Cable have tried and failed to pass laws aimed at stopping towns in North Carolina from building fiber networks. Such networks offer symmetrical fiber at higher speeds and lower prices than either company’s willing to offer. The politicians that pass these carrier-written laws (without even understanding them) pretend [...]
Telecom New Zealand believes the best way to maintain the competitive footing of its Australian subsidiary AAPT is to upgrade its fiber network. Paul Reynolds, Telecom New Zealand’s CEO, said the fiber upgrade plans, which were initially announced last September, are designed to provide “best capacity, lowest price deployment [was] absolutely vital” so AAPT can [...]
As the rural telco consolidation trend continues, Windstream continues to quietly grow in the shadow of larger deals, like CenturyLink and Qwest or Frontier and Verizon. Fresh off of putting the finishing touches on their deal to acquire Iowa Telecom, Windstream has announced that they’ve acquired Q-Comm Corporation in a deal worth around $782 million. [...]
Windstream’s (Nasdaq: WIN) ongoing acquisition conquest continues. This time, the independent ILEC is going to acquire Q-Comm Corporation (Q-Comm), a privately-held regional fiber transport and CLEC based in Overland Park, Kan. for about $782 million. To fund the deal, Windstream will issue about 20.6 million common shares and pay about $278 million in cash. In [...]
Integra Telecom continues to see robust growth in its Denver, Colo. market and has responded to that need by plunking down $2.1 million to build out another 121 route fiber miles in the region. Not surprisingly, a big driver of the Denver fiber expansion is focused on expanding the availability of Ethernet services to both [...]
As we noted last month, AT&T has finally gotten around to deploying bonded VDSL, which enlists a second copper pair to each house to increase U-Verse’s maximum delivery range another 1-2,000 feet from the VRAD. AT&T’s VP of U-verse and video products, Jeff Weber, talks to Fierce IPTV about U-Verse, which he insists is “a [...]
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 [...]