GTA TeleGuam’s CEO Dan Moffat is confident that when the U.S. military starts to redeploy thousands of Marines and their families from Japan’s Okinawa to Guam–a process that will increase the country’s population by 50 percent–the telecom infrastructure will be ready to serve. While the military’s $20 billion military buildup on the island has been [...]
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 [...]
While policy leaders and large service providers theorize how they are going to expand broadband availability, Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co. is already on track to bring broadband services to 100 percent of its customers within a year, beating out the U.S. government’s mandate by three years. Arguably an ambitious initiative, the Obama administration’s American Recovery [...]
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) [...]
Sprint (NYSE: S) believes that the best way to connect customers to its suite of MPLS and IP-based Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) services is Ethernet. Customers that sign up for Sprint’s Ethernet access solution will connect to the provider’s global MPLS or DIA networks via an Ethernet local loop. While customers typically have connected to [...]
Just as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski faces Congressional criticism for his ‘third way’ proposal to net neutrality, Democratic leaders in the U.S. House and Senate want to see how they can update the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996. According to a Bloomberg report, Congress is going to start “a process to develop proposals” to update [...]
Mike Apgar (formerly of Speakeasy) and the folks over at Speedtest.net this week decided to open up their speed test data for public, government and private research. According to a company statement, that data includes over 1.5 billion tests so far (about a million a day). Academics will have access to the data for free, [...]
Carrier Ethernet exchange provider CENX must be doing something right. In operation for less than eight months, the service provider has surpassed the 10 million Ethernet service locations mark via its Carrier Ethernet Exchanges. Buoyed by an ongoing list of carrier customers including Covad, transtelco, XO and Verizon, CENX’s CEO Nan Chen, says the 10 [...]
Allied Fiber, a provider of dark fiber capacity, is moving ahead with the build out of the first phase of its ambitious U.S.-based nationwide wholesale fiber network. Expected to be completed in Q4 2010, the first phase of Allied Fiber’s network build, which will cost about $140 million, will link New York, Chicago and Ashburn, Va. [...]
Wholesale service provider Tinet has responded to the Research and Education’s (R&E) industry segment’s need for a IPv4 to IPv6 address transition, and its win to provide its IP-Flow Transit service to Norwegian-based NORDUnet, a joint collaboration of five Nordic National Research and Education Networks. Under the terms of the multi-year deal, Tinet will provide [...]