With the integration of the former Verizon rural lines into its fold, Frontier has been building out its metro and core fiber network to deliver a suite of fiber and even copper-based Ethernet services to businesses.

Targeting both its wireline and wireless operator customers, the new service will provide customers access to its Ethernet service within its ILEC footprint through an External-Network to Network Interconnection (E-NNI) agreement.

Despite the fact that overall wholesale revenues in Q4 2011 declined 4 percent to $955 million, a factor reflecting the decline in legacy services, WMG's real growth is driven by emerging services like wireless backhaul. WMG reported $564 million in strategic revenues in the fourth quarter, up 5.4 percent due to ongoing wireless backhaul sales and wholesale Ethernet.

The Abuja PoP facility would also allow organizations to benefit from Sky Vision’s VSAT hub in Lagos, which provides satellite-based virtual private network services, connecting corporate headquarters to sites that were not covered by any reliable fiber or microwave service. These services include Sky Vision Internet Access, Sky Vision IP-VPN and Carrier Ethernet services.

Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) has some grand ambitions for its business service unit: Become the most powerful No. 4 "enterprise-focused" telecom provider in the U.S. As told in its new promotional video, the service provider is banking on its talk-of-the-town rural service roots to offer "personalized" service to large and small businesses. Windstream now has 110,000 fiber miles and serves over 450,000 business customers.    Its efforts are paying off. In Q4 2011, Windstream reported that business service revenues rose 2.5 percent on a pro forma basis to $888 million. Getting to this point has not come without ...

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 ...

Windstream coverage Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) is using Ethernet over Copper (EoC) as a way to quickly respond to businesses' higher bandwidth needs in areas where it can't immediately prove out the business case to bring fiber.  Now acting in dual roles as both a CLEC--via its acquisitions of PAETEC and NuVox--and as a traditional Tier 2 ILEC, the telco has set forth a two-pronged EoC strategy. The first piece of this strategy includes bonded T1s over copper, which enables them to get decent amounts of bandwidth to customers that may be located deep in its CLEC or ILEC network ...

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 ...

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.

Similar to other DoD contracts PAETEC has won via its Intellifiber subsidiary, the Ft. Detrick implementation network provides various network access points to ensure redundancy for 10,000 voice circuits. Along with voice services, PAETEC will provide private Carrier Ethernet data network services and Internet access services that will enable military and civilian employees to communicate with other government and civilian companies.

PAETEC offered up another government win today. They have been awarded a five year contract serving the bandwidth needs of Fort Detrick. The services provided will include voice, Ethernet, and secure internet access, and is valued at … [visit site to read more]

nTelos of Waynesboro, VA said Thursday it is splitting off its wireline operations into a second publicly traded company that will also be based in Waynesboro and will be known as Lumos Networks.

CenturyLink was already providing Ethernet services to regional businesses and even wholesale Ethernet services to wireless operators, but its presence was mainly limited to local markets. Thus, CenturyLink is beginning to step out a bit more. ...

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) recently gained the fourth spot on Vertical Systems Group (VSG) Mid-Year 2011 U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard--the first time the ILEC has ever been on the top 10 list. CenturyLink achieved  this feat mainly through its recent acquisition of Qwest Communications. Although CenturyLink--and the former EMBARQ, which was folded into the former CenturyTel to form CenturyLink in 2008--was already providing Ethernet services to regional businesses and even wholesale Ethernet services to wireless operators, its presence was mainly limited to local markets. "CenturyLink has dabbled in Ethernet and had Metro service infrastructure, but weren't as proactive outside ...

With Qwest and Savvis in its pocket, the new opportunity that CenturyLink can now chase is larger business accounts--something that the former CenturyTel only did on a limited basis. CenturyLink believes it can extend Savvis' cloud and managed service capabilities to existing Qwest customers, while Savvis can bring Qwest services (Ethernet) to its customer base. "We're really happy with the Savvis platform and they think there's significant opportunities to not only sell their products into our enterprise customer base, but also to sell Qwest services to their existing customer base," Ewing said. Outside of spending more capital on ...