CLECs to ILECs: Don't hang up your copper networks!

The 10 hottest wireline technologies in 2013

Rounding up the top 10 ILECs' performance in Q3 2012

Sizing up the top US telcos in Q2 2012

Colt gets into 100 GbE market

Verizon's Ihab Tarazi becomes the Metro Ethernet Forum's new Chairman

MegaPath augments Ethernet reach with EoDS1 service

FCC temporarily suspends effort to deregulate special access

Integra grows on-net fiber presence to over 2,000 buildings

Infonetics: OTN poised for growth, while P-OTS vendors battle for top spot

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1. Fatbeam's EMAN acquisition ups Washington State fiber presence Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 15 2013) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet While neither company revealed the terms of the deal, Fatbeam said it will augment the existing EMAN network by adding additional fiber route miles and upgrading the Carrier Ethernet backbone to serve the Franklin Pierce School District under a long-term contract for 20 Gbps Ethernet service. (Read Full Article)

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2. Building Integra's brand equity, teams at top of the list for Tate Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 14 2013) Martha Tate, vice president of Wholesale for Integra, may still be relatively new to her position, but she comes with plenty of experience to run the wholesale division. In her new role, Tate is helping the newly rebranded Integra focus on not only classic PTTs (postal, telephone and telegraph government agencies outside the United States) and ILECs (incumbent local exchange carriers), but also on a host of data center, cloud and content providers that need higher-speed connectivity. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   China Telecom   France Telecom

3. Telstra Wholesale joins the Carrier Ethernet 2.0 club Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 13 2013) Access , Middle Mile , MEF , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul , Wholesale / Exchange Telstra Wholesale (ASX: TLS.AX) is the latest service provider to gain the Metro Ethernet Forum's (MEF's) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) certification for its new "Data Advantage" Ethernet Access and Ethernet backhaul products, which it debuted last August. The Data Advantage product line offers wholesale customers four primary products: managed leased line, Ethernet, Ethernet backhaul and point-to-point fiber services. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   NTT   Telstra   Orange Business Services

4. Alpheus extends wholesale Ethernet to AireSpring Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 12 2013) Middle Mile Alpheus Communications on Tuesday extended its wholesale Ethernet services to AireSpring, a Los Angeles-based competitive service provider, enabling it to expand its MPLS and Ethernet presence in Texas. Customers that purchase AireSpring's MPLS Mesh product can combine multiple MPLS networks with a single SLA, single bill and one point of contact. The provider claims that since it manages the connection, customers will realize "greater flexibility and increased cost savings." (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   SLA   NuVox   Alpheus Communications

5. XO eyes asymmetrical EoC opportunities Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 12 2013) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Managed Data Services XO Communications is seeing new potential use for asymmetrical speed Ethernet over Copper (EoC) as a way to respond to customers who have applications that don't necessarily need a symmetrical connection. Sam Koetter, senior product manager of Ethernet services for XO, said the company plans to start offering an asymmetric Ethernet service tentatively at the end of the year. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   XO Communications   NuVox

6. COMPTEL's James: CLECs need more regulatory certainty Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 11 2013) Access One of the most pressing issues for CLECs is getting access to the ILEC's last-mile copper to deliver Ethernet over Copper (EoC) services to their business customers. A number of the largest CLECs such as Integra, XO and TelePacific and even some ILECs like CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) have been expanding their EoC footprint to extend Ethernet services where they can't immediately prove out a business case for fiber. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   NuVox   Integra Telecom   TelePacific

7. DukeNet branches out of the Carolinas, goes 100G Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 11 2013) Middle Mile , Mobile Backhaul DukeNet Communications, one of the early regional utility telcos to emerge in the mid-1990s, on Monday announced it has expanded outside of its North Carolina home and into four new states. With the completion of this new network upgrade, all of which is based on 100G coherent technologies, the service provider now reaches into Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. (Read Full Article)

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8. Alpheus brings dark fiber to Fidelity Communications Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 11 2013) Cable / MSO Alpheus Communications on Monday completed a dark fiber indefeasible right of use (IRU) deal with independent competitive provider Fidelity Communications, enabling it to expand transport between Dallas and Memphis to better serve its broadband customer base. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Alpheus Communications

9. FairPoint extends wholesale Ethernet reach into Boston Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 8 2013) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Wholesale / Exchange FairPoint (Nasdaq: FRP) on Thursday introduced a new wholesale Ethernet service option that will give businesses access from Boston to the company's northern New England network footprint in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Offered out of the One Summer Street carrier hotel at One Summer Street in Boston, Carrier Ethernet Service (CES) Extended Connect will provide an access point for wholesale carrier customers who need an interconnection into northern New England. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   sidera   Comcast Business Services

10. Consolidated's Udell carves out new broadband, Ethernet business services strategy Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 7 2013) Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet We're doing a metro Ethernet-based product growth strategy across the commercial or business-to-business markets. We're seeing that even though we started with multi-site businesses a few years back that  that's picked up momentum and more and more businesses are finding that a preferred platform because it allows us to layer on more sophisticated and user-driven type services on top of it. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Consolidated Communications   SureWest

11. FairPoint's Q4 revenue driven by broadband, Ethernet services Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 7 2013) Middle Mile , Mobile Backhaul FairPoint (Nasdaq: FRP) reported on Wednesday that revenue was $240 million, down from $242 million in Q3 2012, as gains in broadband and business-grade Ethernet were offset by ongoing declines in voice revenues and the impact of Hurricane Sandy.  (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   FairPoint Communications

12. Zayo lights up new Chicago-to-Memphis 100G route Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 6 2013) Middle Mile Zayo on Tuesday announced that it has built a 100G wavelength network on its Memphis to Chicago route, enabling it to offer wavelength and Ethernet services between these two markets. Prior to this network upgrade, this route was only available to Zayo's dark fiber customers. (Read Full Article)

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13. Integra Telecom rebrands itself as "Integra," expands focus to enterprise market Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 27 2013) Middle Mile Integra Telecom on Wednesday announced during the Channel Partners show in Las Vegas that it has renamed itself "Integra" to illustrate its flexibility to serve the large business customer market segment. Harding (Image source: Integra) The CLEC said that removing "Telecom" from its brand name has two benefits: It defines its stance as a broader solutions-based service provider, and maintains the reputation of the Integra name it has built with its existing SMB (small to medium business) customer base. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Integra Telecom   Level (3)

14. 10G wavelength prices continue to drop, says TeleGeography Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 26 2013) Global As businesses and wholesale carrier customers migrate away from lower-capacity SDH/SONET services to optical wavelengths, wavelength service prices are dropping fast while lower-capacity circuit prices are moderating.  But as seen with the prices of Carrier Ethernet Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) services, for example, 10G and SDH/SONET service pricing varies by region. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   TeleGeography

15. The 10 hottest wireline technologies in 2013 Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 20 2013) MEF , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet Take the Metro Ethernet Forum's Carrier Ethernet 2.0 specification. A key piece of CE 2.0 specification is centered on developing an interconnection process for eight standard service types when service providers have to establish a connection with a carrier partner to fulfill a service order. Meantime, Ethernet has become an accepted wide area technology used by service providers for backhauling traffic and as a service that service providers offer to their large enterprise and SMB clients.   (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Deutsche Telekom   LAN

16. Legacy declines drag down MTS Allstream - Ethernet and IP bright spot Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 15 2013) Taking out declines in its legacy lines of business, the service provider said revenue actually increased by 2.2 percent year-over-year due to sales of IP-based consumer IPTV and business-grade Carrier Ethernet services. (Read Full Article)

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17. AT&T takes leadership position on Gartner's Asia Pacific Magic Quadrant Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 15 2013) Middle Mile , Global Gartner said that while AT&T "is making good progress expanding its [Carrier] Ethernet WAN coverage in Asia/Pacific... it still lacks full regional coverage." (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   China Telecom   Level (3)

18. Consolidated ramps up its business services strategy with Ethernet Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 14 2013) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet With the integration of SureWest well underway, Consolidated Communications has set a goal of advancing its business service set to extend into the Sacramento, Calif. and Kansas City areas it entered through that deal.  (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Consolidated Communications   SureWest

19. Zayo lays out fiber plans for Jacksonville Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 13 2013) Middle Mile Leveraging the USCarrier assets it purchased last year, Zayo on Wednesday announced it is going to expand its overall network into the Jacksonville, Fla., Market. Targeting the city's greater metro area, Zayo will offer its suite of dark fiber, wavelength, Ethernet and IP-based services.  (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Zayo

20. tw telecom Q4 2012 revenue rises to $377.9 million on enterprise data service growth Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 12 2013) Access , Middle Mile , National For the year 2012, tw telecom revenue grew 7.6 percent year to $1.47 billion.  The CLEC's product line saw data and Internet services revenues increased 4.6 percent sequentially to $197.8 million as the result of an increase in strategic Carrier Ethernet and VPN-based product sales and other services. However, these results were partially offset by churn and repricing.   (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   tw telecom   Level (3)

21. Sprint's Q4 wireline revenues rise to $949 million sequentially on IP/Ethernet Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2013) Access , Middle Mile Sprint (NYSE: S) reported on Thursday that its Q4 wireline revenues rose 1 percent sequentially to $949 million due to an increase of IP volumes. One key area for Sprint is providing Carrier Ethernet access for enterprises. While Sprint clearly trails many of the established Ethernet players, it is making progress in expanding its Carrier Ethernet footprint. To date, Sprint Ethernet Access is available today in 147 markets domestically and 64 countries. (Read Full Article)

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22. Frontier Communications rolls out wholesale EVPL services in 23 states Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2013) Middle Mile , MEF , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Wholesale , Wholesale / Exchange Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) on Tuesday made a statement in the wholesale Ethernet space by introducing its new Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) Silver service to address the needs of service providers targeting multi-site businesses. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Frontier Communications   Frontier

23. Alpheus boosts sales power with Cbeyond veteran Matt Milliron Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 6 2013) Middle Mile One of the key products of this expansion drive is Carrier Ethernet. Leveraging a mix of fiber and copper, the service provider's Ethernet footprint serves over 94,000 buildings. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Alpheus Communications   Comcast Business Services

24. CENX CEO Ogonek talks about tackling the carrier interconnect challenge Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 5 2013) Access , Middle Mile , MEF , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet Ogonek came to CENX from Bridgewater Systems, which was acquired by Amdocs in 2011. He brings a wealth of software and back office knowledge to CENX at a time when it is seeing increased adoption of its software systems by service providers that need help to find Ethernet interconnections with other carriers. (Read Full Article)

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