Equinix (EQIX) selected for BT Radianz proximity hosting, Phoenix NAP selected by Yahoo Serious, Colocation America expanding Los Angeles data centers, Global Capacity expands with Carrier Ethernet services.

tw telecom's laser focus on selling Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions to enterprises is a formula that continues to work for the Littleton, Colo.-based CLEC as it reported that revenues rose to $358.9 million, up 2.1 percent from $351.5 million in Q4 2011. On a year-over-year basis, the CLEC's revenue increased 7.9 percent, or $26.4 million from Q1 2011. "We posted our 30th consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, delivered strong margins, and grew both net income and levered free cash flow, while we continued to advance the business with ...

Internet Initiative Japan will release a VPN service on 07 May that uses the internet connection service provided as part of the NTT East and NTT West Flet's Hikari Next (NGN) service... When there are sites in both the east and west, either the internet VPN or wide area Ethernet can be used to link the two regions

Comcast has long been delivering Ethernet over its existing coax lines to small and medium business customers. And the MSO's infrastructure has been key to providing wireless backhaul services for wireless operators.

Daniel's wholesale division offers a wide mix of services for service providers including: Ethernet (E-Line), optical private line (both traditional TDM and Ethernet Private Line), Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) and ISDN-PRI voice services.

After making a string of 18 service provider acquisitions over the past few years, Zayo Group in March announced its biggest deal yet—the acquisition of fiber network operator AboveNet. Like with most of the companies that Zayo has acquired, AboveNet has a significant Carrier Ethernet business. 

Service providers may be widening their portfolio of high bandwidth IP VPN ports, but the reality is that most customers still want sub 10 Mbps connections. New data from TeleGeography's Enterprise Network Pricing Service says that 88 percent of the ports sold by service providers between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012 were 10 Mbps or below. In established markets such as North America, Europe, and Asia, 54 percent of the ports sold were 2 Mbps, while 34 percent were between 2-10 Mbps. Alternatively, in emerging markets like Latin America, 91 percent of port sales were 10 Mbps and below ...

Over the last 19 months, Frontier has expanded its Ohio broadband footprint into an additional 70 new neighborhoods, a move that Davidson said expanded the availability of DSL services "in our service territory from 68 percent to 78 percent." In addition to consumer DSL, Frontier has been building out its suite of fiber-based Metro Ethernet and Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) services for area business customers.

Business services is the big driver here as the majority of IdeaOne's $12.3 million in 2011 revenue was derived from business service sales. HickoryTech will gain access to IdeaOne's 650 fiber-fed buildings to serve business customers a host of Ethernet services, IP-based voice, collocation and hosting services.

Carrier Ethernet Market Status and Forecast: On February 23rd, Infonetics Research co-founder Michael Howard led off the Ethernet Technology Summit - Market Research session with his Carrier Ethernet market assessment and forecast. Here are the highlights: -Carrier Ethernet Equipment market is booming with $37.5B worlwide revenues forecasted for 2015. The cumulative 2005 to 2010 CE m

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In this week's installment of On The Hot Seat, FierceTelecom Editor Sean Buckley talks with Jeff Reedy, CEO of Overture Networks. During this discussion, Reedy talks about the company's integration Networks and its new branding effort, which focuses on how its Carrier Ethernet and network management solutions can help service provider customers compete.

As more multinational enterprises adopt cloud-based services and videoconferencing to conduct business, they are looking to their respective service providers for wider IP VPN and Ethernet coverage, and service providers are responding by expanding their offerings by as much as 40 percent in international markets.    Between Q3 2010 and Q3 2011, the availability of Ethernet-based services (EoMPLS, EoSDH, and VPLS) rose 40 percent, while international IP VPN service availability grew 8 percent.   To expand the reach of their respective IP VPN offerings, the majority of the service providers surveyed said they had to work with various service provider wholesale partners ...

Hawaiian Telcom ( Nasdaq: HCOM ) may have only started seriously ramping up its Ethernet offerings in 2007, but the service provider is being no less aggressive than other telcos. For the incumbent carrier, Ethernet is not just a standalone product, but also a delivery mechanism for number of its SMB and WAN-based services, including Layer 2-3 services such as Dedicated Internet Access (DIA ...

FairPoint's coverage Supported by its 400 Gbps fiber-based IP/MPLS core VantagePoint network, FairPoint (Nasdaq: FRP) is continually making strides with its Ethernet offerings in New England territory it entered through its acquisition of Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) lines in 2008 and other territories in its footprint.   On the traditional copper and TDM side, the ILEC offers a mix of Ethernet over Copper (EoC) and various Ethernet over TDM-based services including EoTDM, EoDS3 and EoSONET. From its copper and fiber base, FairPoint is offering various flavors of Ethernet, including Ethernet Private Line (EPL), Ethernet LAN (ELAN), Ethernet Virtual Private ...