TW Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC, news, filings) goes about its business in such an understated way that it’s too easy to miss the interesting bits. This week they had some luck to the west, picking up both a solid enterprise and federal wins. The GSA has awarded them one of those multi-year indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contracts to supply various government agencies with VoIP, several flavors of Business Ethernet, and Private Network Transport. Agencies can either go through the GSA or direct through tw, and the contract runs through December of 2014 with provisions for two one-year extensions

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Under the terms of the multi-year contract, tw telecom will provide federal agencies located anywhere in Hawaii with digital voice/VoIP services; a fully managed Business Ethernet services including E-Line Ethernet WAN service; Extended Native LAN (ENLAN) service; and Private Network Transport (PNT) service.

Lots of fiber expansion activity in the news that’s worth a quick look:

Managed technology services provider Red Anvil has selected US operator tw telecom to deliver its Business Ethernet service...

Comcast continues to make a name for itself in the voice business. The top cable operator garnered top honors for its hosted VoIP service in an Infonetics Research survey. Verizon Business, meanwhile, turned in the top score among IP connectivity providers.  

TGIF.  There’s been a lot of news this week, more than I’ve been able to keep up with.  Here’s some quick looks at a selection of interesting items: … [visit site to read more]

SureWest Communications reported that its first-quarter 2012 revenue rose 3.6 percent, to $62.8 million, up from $60.6 million, due to an increase in broadband revenue.  

FairPoint Communications reported revenue of $248.5 million for the first quarter of 2012, down from $254.8 million in Q4 2011, due to an expected decline in voice access lines, but growth in business and broadband services continue to close that gap. In Q1 2012, FairPoint's results included a reversal of $1.2 million in penalties, down from the $3.9 million in reversal of service quality penalties in Q4 2011. The service provider narrowed its losses to $46.7 million, down from the $84.0 million it reported in Q4 2011. On the regulatory front, the service ...

tw telecom is addressing the challenge that competitive providers face in trying to expand their out-of-region Ethernet and network reach with its national Ethernet solution. Targeted at international carriers and cloud application providers--which typically don't own a lot of their own domestic network facilities--the new service allows these service providers to get access to what tw telecom says is thousands of enterprise customers and buildings via a single Ethernet connection. Having a single provider to get to multiple Ethernet connections means that these service providers don't have to seek out multiple individual External Network to Network Interconnection (E-NNI ...

US operator Tw telecom is conducting a national roll-out of Enhanced Management, the first phase of its Intelligent Network service portfolio. tw telecom Intelligent Network allows customers to automatically see performance data, add bandwidth, prioritise traffic, and enable customers to access cloud services. tw telecom's Enhanced Management is a service that gives customers real time performance management information, and segment-by-segment, from the network

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 ...

Citing booming bandwidth demand for Brazil and Latin America, colocation provider Equinix will build a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Boca Raton, Florida.

Stanley Hubbard, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading Featured Speakers: Nan Chen, President of MEF, Mike Haugh, Ixia; Bob Mandeville, Iometrix; Michael Tighe, AboveNet; Youcef Ayad, TeliaSonera; John Hawkins, Ciena; Craig Easley, Accedian Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:00 a.m. New York / 4:00 p.m. London.  

Global data centre operator Equinix plans to build a third International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Florida.