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CenturyLink increases broadband subscriber count, narrows access line losses in Q4 2011
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 16 2012)
Driven by Ethernet, wavelength and MPLS sales, Business Markets Group (BMG) generated $446 million in strategic revenues, up 2.8 percent over pro forma fourth quarter 2010. Total revenue, however, declined 3.3 percent to $947 million due to declines in legacy services and data integration revenues.
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Vertical Systems Group: AT&T, Verizon, tw telecom Lead Business Ethernet Market
Explore Channel Partners Magazine (Feb 13 2012)
AT&T, Verizon and tw telecom are leaders in the U.S. business Ethernet market based on billable port installations, Vertical Systems Group, the market research and strategic consulting firm, announced Monday. Other companies who ranked in Vertical's U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard included Cox Communications, XO Communications, CenturyLink, Time Warner Cable, Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communications. Boston-based Vertical, which ranks service providers that hold four percent or more o
Comment Mentions: Vertical Systems Group XO Communications NuVox
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Verizon veteran Michael Tighe named AboveNet's marketing chief
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 8 2012)
Before coming to AboveNet, Tighe served in a number of senior level positions at Verizon, including Director of Ethernet and IP Product Management at Verizon Business where he helped grow the telco's Ethernet and MPLS portfolio from inception to $350 million. During his tenure at Verizon, he also served as the chairman of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) from 2006-2008. His experience in creating profitable Ethernet and data center product strategies will come in handy as the company pursues new opportunities for its high bandwidth, low-latency connectivity solutions with AboveNet's enterprise and carrier customers. For more:- see the ...
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For Verizon, EoC becomes a sound off-net play
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Verizon Ethernet access services. For Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ), the delivery mechanism for its Ethernet offerings has and will likely continue to be over fiber in its traditional ILEC territory. While it continues investigate the possible use of Ethernet over Copper (EoC), Verizon feels like it has a decent fiber supply in its current wireline territories to serve its business customers. "In our ...
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For CenturyLink, EoC breeds business opportunities
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Centurylink network map CenturyLink ( NYSE: CTL ), for much of its existence--especially in its previous form as CenturyTel--was not much more than a small town phone company delivering telephone service and data services to residential customers and a pocketful of businesses. All of that changed when it purchased Qwest and then Savvis in 2011. By acquiring Qwest, CenturyLink was able to ...
Comment Mentions: Frost & Sullivan Qwest Integra Telecom
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Frontier sets sights on rural EoC opportunities
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Frontier's coverage map. After purchasing Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) rural assets in 14 states, Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) spent much of 2010 and 2011 focusing on integrating those assets into its portfolio and expanding broadband services.Augmenting those efforts was an equally important effort to expand business services into these areas. In 2011, Frontier residential announced it would expand its Ethernet service capabilities in 55 markets across 10 states in 2011. Leveraging a mix of copper and fiber, Frontier has been using Ethernet to deliver services to businesses, wireless backhaul and to backhaul its own consumer DSL traffic from ...
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Stepping to the EoC plate: Incumbent telcos take a swing
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Fiber is and will remain the ultimate medium for Carrier Ethernet, but in places where a service provider can't immediately prove a business case to lay fiber, many incumbent carriers are either considering or are expanding their Ethernet footprint over their existing copper network via Ethernet over Copper (EoC). As a follow up to our previous report on competitive providers pursuing Ethernet over Copper, we're taking a look at how incumbent carriers are taking on EoC and their respective strategies for delivery. "Longer-term, end-to-end Ethernet service delivered over fiber is clearly the end-game, as scalability demands and required ...
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Dell'Oro: Data center builds will drive Ethernet switch revenue to $28B
Explore FierceTelecom (Jan 30 2012)
As the top three U.S. service providers--AT&T (NYSE: T), CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ)--and their large enterprise clients ramp up their respective data center footprints to deliver a suite of managed and cloud-based services, a robust opportunity for Ethernet switch vendors is being created. This data center drive, according to a new Dell'Oro Group report, will drive $28 billion in Layer 2-3 Ethernet switch sales in 2016, with the majority of the growth driven by sales of Ethernet switches for larger data center deployments. Leading the revenue charge will be the sales of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) switches. However, Dell'Oro predicts that 40 GigE and 100 GigE will exceed $3 billion in revenues during the period. "We expect the Ethernet Switch market to experience two significant years of market growth in 2013 and 2014 from the migration of servers towards 10 Gigabit Ethernet," said Alan Weckel, Senior Director of Dell'Oro Group. "We believe that in 2013, most large enterprises will upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet for server access through a mix of connectivity options ranging from blade servers, SFP+ direct attach and 10G Base-T." Weckel added that "in 2014, small and medium businesses will upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet" and "towards the second half of the decade, 40 GE and 100 GE switches will be an important growth driver for the Ethernet switch market." For more:- see the release Related articles:NTT puts stake in India data center market with Netmagic purchaseTerremark expands Silicon Valley data center to keep up with customer growthWindstream expands Raleigh data center; enterprise IT spending forecast reaches $2.7TSavvis to expand data center reach to support more cloud, managed servicesCincinnati Bell sees data center business as foundation for cloud, managed services
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Integra, Saddleback Make Quality Carrier Ethernet Connection
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 12 2012)
Integra Telecom Inc. recently inked an Network to Network Interface (NNI) agreement with Arizona’s Saddleback Communications that expands each company’s footprint and extends Carrier Ethernet services to the premises of large enterprise customers to greater Phoenix/Scottsdale/Mesa.
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INTERNEXA: Bringing Carrier Ethernet Solutions in Latin America
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 10 2012)
CEN contributing writer Annie Lindstrom recently caught up with Genaro García Dominguez, CEO of INTERNEXA who sheds light on the company’s current status and plans for the future.
Comment Mentions: Level (3) Annie Lindstrom
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Top Deals of 2011: Windstream purchases PAETEC
Explore FierceTelecom (Dec 14 2011)
Deal Size: $2.3 billion Why it's relevant? Windstream ( Nasdaq: WIN ), unlike its fellow Tier 2 ILECs, may have not pulled off ambitious deals like its fellows CenturyLink ( NYSE: CTL ) or Frontier Communications ( NYSE: FTR ) did with their respective purchases of Qwest and Verizon's rural lines , but the service provider is no less aggressive with M&A. Following a string of smaller ...
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Frontier Service Expansion Shows Carrier Ethernet’s Tier 2 Market Appeal
Explore CEN Feature (Dec 13 2011)
Comment "Hayes' fiber/copper serving percentages match up very closely with recent studies and I agree with his statement, “We can get ..." - Victor Antonio, AVP Accedian
Carrier Ethernet services caught on first among larger enterprise users, but as a recent announcement from Frontier Communications illustrates, the technology now makes sense even in some fairly small Tier 2 markets.
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Verizon still ironing the bugs out of LTE
When Verizon built its new LTE network, it didn’t just mount new fatter radios on its towers; it changed the fundamental design of every aspect of its network: moving from hardware to software driven base stations, evolving its network service delivery systems from old hierarchical voice-centric chains of gateways to new flat IP architectures, and replacing old copper backhaul links with fiber Ethernet to the tower.
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Verizon: Ethernet Services That Stand Out
Explore Light Reading (Nov 10 2011)
VIDEO: Verizon's Jeffery Schwartz talks about how service providers can make their Ethernet stand out in a crowd
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CenturyLink Q3: Doubles operating revenues, increases broadband subscribers
Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 3 2011)
Driven by new wireless backhaul and Carrier Ethernet sales, WMG strategic revenues were $573 million in the quarter, a 9.1 percent increase over pro forma Q3 2010. Like BMG, ongoing declines in legacy service revenue drove down WMG's total revenue 3.2 percent on a year-over-year basis to $979 million in total revenues.
Comment Mentions: Qwest TelePacific CenturyLink
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CenturyLink increases broadband subscriber count, narrows access line losses in Q4 2011
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 16 2012)
Driven by Ethernet, wavelength and MPLS sales, Business Markets Group (BMG) generated $446 million in strategic revenues, up 2.8 percent over pro forma fourth quarter 2010. Total revenue, however, declined 3.3 percent to $947 million due to declines in legacy services and data integration revenues.
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Vertical Systems Group: AT&T, Verizon, tw telecom Lead Business Ethernet Market
Explore Channel Partners Magazine (Feb 13 2012)
AT&T, Verizon and tw telecom are leaders in the U.S. business Ethernet market based on billable port installations, Vertical Systems Group, the market research and strategic consulting firm, announced Monday. Other companies who ranked in Vertical's U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard included Cox Communications, XO Communications, CenturyLink, Time Warner Cable, Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communications. Boston-based Vertical, which ranks service providers that hold four percent or more o
Comment Mentions: Vertical Systems Group XO Communications NuVox
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Verizon veteran Michael Tighe named AboveNet's marketing chief
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 8 2012)
Before coming to AboveNet, Tighe served in a number of senior level positions at Verizon, including Director of Ethernet and IP Product Management at Verizon Business where he helped grow the telco's Ethernet and MPLS portfolio from inception to $350 million. During his tenure at Verizon, he also served as the chairman of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) from 2006-2008. His experience in creating profitable Ethernet and data center product strategies will come in handy as the company pursues new opportunities for its high bandwidth, low-latency connectivity solutions with AboveNet's enterprise and carrier customers. For more:- see the ...
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For Verizon, EoC becomes a sound off-net play
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Verizon Ethernet access services. For Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ), the delivery mechanism for its Ethernet offerings has and will likely continue to be over fiber in its traditional ILEC territory. While it continues investigate the possible use of Ethernet over Copper (EoC), Verizon feels like it has a decent fiber supply in its current wireline territories to serve its business customers. "In our ...
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For CenturyLink, EoC breeds business opportunities
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Centurylink network map CenturyLink ( NYSE: CTL ), for much of its existence--especially in its previous form as CenturyTel--was not much more than a small town phone company delivering telephone service and data services to residential customers and a pocketful of businesses. All of that changed when it purchased Qwest and then Savvis in 2011. By acquiring Qwest, CenturyLink was able to ...
Comment Mentions: Frost & Sullivan Qwest Integra Telecom
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Frontier sets sights on rural EoC opportunities
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Frontier's coverage map. After purchasing Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) rural assets in 14 states, Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) spent much of 2010 and 2011 focusing on integrating those assets into its portfolio and expanding broadband services.Augmenting those efforts was an equally important effort to expand business services into these areas. In 2011, Frontier residential announced it would expand its Ethernet service capabilities in 55 markets across 10 states in 2011. Leveraging a mix of copper and fiber, Frontier has been using Ethernet to deliver services to businesses, wireless backhaul and to backhaul its own consumer DSL traffic from ...
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Stepping to the EoC plate: Incumbent telcos take a swing
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012)
Fiber is and will remain the ultimate medium for Carrier Ethernet, but in places where a service provider can't immediately prove a business case to lay fiber, many incumbent carriers are either considering or are expanding their Ethernet footprint over their existing copper network via Ethernet over Copper (EoC). As a follow up to our previous report on competitive providers pursuing Ethernet over Copper, we're taking a look at how incumbent carriers are taking on EoC and their respective strategies for delivery. "Longer-term, end-to-end Ethernet service delivered over fiber is clearly the end-game, as scalability demands and required ...
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Dell'Oro: Data center builds will drive Ethernet switch revenue to $28B
Explore FierceTelecom (Jan 30 2012)
As the top three U.S. service providers--AT&T (NYSE: T), CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ)--and their large enterprise clients ramp up their respective data center footprints to deliver a suite of managed and cloud-based services, a robust opportunity for Ethernet switch vendors is being created. This data center drive, according to a new Dell'Oro Group report, will drive $28 billion in Layer 2-3 Ethernet switch sales in 2016, with the majority of the growth driven by sales of Ethernet switches for larger data center deployments. Leading the revenue charge will be the sales of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) switches. However, Dell'Oro predicts that 40 GigE and 100 GigE will exceed $3 billion in revenues during the period. "We expect the Ethernet Switch market to experience two significant years of market growth in 2013 and 2014 from the migration of servers towards 10 Gigabit Ethernet," said Alan Weckel, Senior Director of Dell'Oro Group. "We believe that in 2013, most large enterprises will upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet for server access through a mix of connectivity options ranging from blade servers, SFP+ direct attach and 10G Base-T." Weckel added that "in 2014, small and medium businesses will upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet" and "towards the second half of the decade, 40 GE and 100 GE switches will be an important growth driver for the Ethernet switch market." For more:- see the release Related articles:NTT puts stake in India data center market with Netmagic purchaseTerremark expands Silicon Valley data center to keep up with customer growthWindstream expands Raleigh data center; enterprise IT spending forecast reaches $2.7TSavvis to expand data center reach to support more cloud, managed servicesCincinnati Bell sees data center business as foundation for cloud, managed services
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Integra, Saddleback Make Quality Carrier Ethernet Connection
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 12 2012)
Integra Telecom Inc. recently inked an Network to Network Interface (NNI) agreement with Arizona’s Saddleback Communications that expands each company’s footprint and extends Carrier Ethernet services to the premises of large enterprise customers to greater Phoenix/Scottsdale/Mesa.
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INTERNEXA: Bringing Carrier Ethernet Solutions in Latin America
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 10 2012)
CEN contributing writer Annie Lindstrom recently caught up with Genaro García Dominguez, CEO of INTERNEXA who sheds light on the company’s current status and plans for the future.
Comment Mentions: Level (3) Annie Lindstrom
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Top Deals of 2011: Windstream purchases PAETEC
Explore FierceTelecom (Dec 14 2011)
Deal Size: $2.3 billion Why it's relevant? Windstream ( Nasdaq: WIN ), unlike its fellow Tier 2 ILECs, may have not pulled off ambitious deals like its fellows CenturyLink ( NYSE: CTL ) or Frontier Communications ( NYSE: FTR ) did with their respective purchases of Qwest and Verizon's rural lines , but the service provider is no less aggressive with M&A. Following a string of smaller ...
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Frontier Service Expansion Shows Carrier Ethernet’s Tier 2 Market Appeal
Explore CEN Feature (Dec 13 2011)
Comment "Hayes' fiber/copper serving percentages match up very closely with recent studies and I agree with his statement, “We can get ..." - Victor Antonio, AVP Accedian
Carrier Ethernet services caught on first among larger enterprise users, but as a recent announcement from Frontier Communications illustrates, the technology now makes sense even in some fairly small Tier 2 markets.
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Verizon still ironing the bugs out of LTE
When Verizon built its new LTE network, it didn’t just mount new fatter radios on its towers; it changed the fundamental design of every aspect of its network: moving from hardware to software driven base stations, evolving its network service delivery systems from old hierarchical voice-centric chains of gateways to new flat IP architectures, and replacing old copper backhaul links with fiber Ethernet to the tower.
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Verizon: Ethernet Services That Stand Out
Explore Light Reading (Nov 10 2011)
VIDEO: Verizon's Jeffery Schwartz talks about how service providers can make their Ethernet stand out in a crowd
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CenturyLink Q3: Doubles operating revenues, increases broadband subscribers
Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 3 2011)
Driven by new wireless backhaul and Carrier Ethernet sales, WMG strategic revenues were $573 million in the quarter, a 9.1 percent increase over pro forma Q3 2010. Like BMG, ongoing declines in legacy service revenue drove down WMG's total revenue 3.2 percent on a year-over-year basis to $979 million in total revenues.
Comment Mentions: Qwest TelePacific CenturyLink
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