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TI Sparkle inks deal with Libya's Gateway
Explore Telecompaper (May 21 2013)
(Telecompaper) TI Sparkle, the international services arm of Telecom Italia, and Gateway, a Libyan operator, have signed an agreement for the provisioning of international end-to-end services to and from Libya. The two firms will offer end-to-end international SDH and Carrier Ethernet services to and from Libya.
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Digital Realty Announces Rollout Of Global Network-Neutral Ecosystem Featuring GigE Connections
Explore CEN Feature (May 16 2013)
Global data center solutions provider Digital Realty Trust, Inc. recently unveiled a new initiative to create an ecosystem of network services. The services and connectivity will be available to the company’s carrier customers that are collocated in any of Digital Realty’s 130-plus data centers worldwide.
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GlobeNet wraps up work on its Bermuda-to-U.S. submarine cable system
Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 22 2013)
GlobeNet, Oi's wholesale submarine cable provider subsidiary, has completed construction of its Segment 5 subsea cable system, linking Bermuda and the United States with capacity of as much as 30 Tbps. Segment 5, announced in January 2012, replaced its earlier Segment 5 cable (formerly BUS-1) and will provide, it claims, over "30 times the previously lit capacity between Bermuda and the United States." Built with landing stations in St. David's, Bermuda, and Tuckerton, N.J., the 1,350 km system is designed to support 150 wavelengths per fiber pair at 100 Gbps per wavelength. To carry traffic over ...
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Mentions: Reliance TeleGeography
Copper lives in niche role; attack traffic spikes 718 percent
Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 19 2013)
Copper isn't dead yet: An estimated $1.5 billion will be spent on EFM-bonded, copper-based Ethernet access devices in the next five years, an Infonetics Research report forecasts. Much of that will be spent to increase capacity for businesses and some mobile backhaul networks. "People keep saying that copper's dead, but it's not—it has a limited but important role for Ethernet services, as ...
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Mentions: TeleGeography Overture Networks
Telekom Malaysia provides Ethernet to Redtone
Explore Telecompaper (Apr 2 2013)
(Telecompaper) Malaysian broadband services provider Redtone International and Telekom Malaysia have signed a wholesale Ethernet deal. Under the agreement, Redtone will be provided access to Telekom Malaysia's Metro-E infrastructure nationwide. Redtone says the collaboration will widen its coverage for its data and broadband services and strengthen its presence in the corporate and SME segment.
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TI Sparkle provides Ethernet to Seabone IP Transit
Explore Telecom Ramblings (Mar 20 2013)
TI Sparkle is expanding its depth in the heart of Europe with a new PoP in Amsterdam. The presence in Amsterdam Vancis will further their high speed access capabilities to the Seabone IP Transit network and to their Lan2Lan Ethernet-over-MPLS solution. TI Sparkle has been perhaps the least visible of the top IP backbones over the last few years, but its depth in Africa and Latin America is in the right spots to find growth opportunities.
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Telstra Wholesale brings Carrier Ethernet 2.0 to the APAC
Explore Computerworld Malaysia (Mar 8 2013)
Telstra Wholesale has become the first company in the Asia Pacific region - and only the second company in the world - to offer certified Carrier Ethernet (CE 2.0) services, according to Nan Chen, president of the MEF. Telstra Wholesale is a Telstra business that sells access to Telstra's networks into the wholesale market. The MEF is a global industry alliance comprising more than 200 organisations including telecommunications service providers and network equipment/software manufacturers.
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Mentions: Telstra Metro Ethernet Forum
Optical network market “poised for growth in 2013″
Explore Telecoms.com (Mar 5 2013)
The global market for optical network hardware looks set to have a good year in 2013, with North America and 100G expected to shine particularly bright, according to a report from Infonetics Research.
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Driven by 10G, Ethernet switches buck economic headwinds
Explore NetworkWorld.com (Mar 4 2013)
Ten gigabit Ethernet accounted for almost all switch revenue growth. Port shipments of 10G grew 66%, driven by data center upgrades, 10G server adoption, server virtualization and core network build-outs. Also growing rapidly is 40G Ethernet. Port volumes were up 10X in 2012, Infonetics found, though from a small base.
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10G wavelength prices continue to drop, says TeleGeography
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 26 2013)
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.
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Mentions: TeleGeography
AT&T takes leadership position on Gartner's Asia Pacific Magic Quadrant
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 15 2013)
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."
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Mentions: China Telecom Level (3)
CLAdirect to offer Overture services in Caribbean, LatAm
Explore Telecompaper (Jan 24 2013)
(Telecompaper) Networking equipment maker Overture has signed a partnership agreement with CLAdirect to further enhance business development and customer support in Latin America and the Caribbean. Under the terms of the contract, CLAdirect will represent Overture’s entire portfolio, including edge and aggregation services for Ethernet over fiber, copper, TDM and SDH systems and management software.
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Mentions: Overture Networks
Transtelco wraps its Mexico City metro fiber buildout
Explore FierceTelecom (Jan 18 2013)
Transtelco, a competitive wholesale and business service provider, on Wednesday put the final touches on its metro fiber network in Mexico City, enabling it to address growing wholesale and enterprise service opportunities in a high growth Latin American country. The multi-duct, multi-ring network will be able to provide a suite of services--including transport, IP access, Carrier Ethernet, voice, collocation, content delivery and IT services-- to other service providers and businesses located along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Mentions: XO Communications
AT&T sees acquisition opportunities in Europe
Explore FierceTelecom (Jan 17 2013)
AT&T is mulling purchases in Europe as a way to extend its wireless presence in a new market, but any deal could potentially also help the telco enhance its wireline business services unit. Citing people close to the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported AT&T is looking at more potential prospects in the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands. A deal could come before the end of the year. Potential targets include Everything Everywhere, the U.K. mobile operator owned by France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom or Dutch incumbent telco KPN.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group Deutsche Telekom France Telecom
On-net Ip Vpn, Ethernet demand rises
Explore FierceTelecom (Jan 11 2013)
Network providers are scrambling to meet demand for on-net IP VPN and Ethernet services worldwide, a new report from TeleGeography reveals--but quality and growth rates vary widely among regions. Overall, among the 166 cities surveyed by the research firm last year, on-net services grew 12 percent. Africa saw huge growth in 2012 of 52 percent, while Latin America saw only marginal growth in on-net VPN coverage. Asia, Europe and North America saw growth rates between 10 and 15 percent. Growth rates themselves, of course, don't tell the whole story. Although Africa's on-net IP VPN and Ethernet services jumped ...
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Mentions: TeleGeography
Integra Telecom Completes Carrier Ethernet Offerings with E-LAN
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 10 2013)
As promised, Integra Telecom has launched E-LAN Carrier Ethernet (CE) service to business customers in the company’s footprint across the western United States. The multipoint-to-multipoint Layer 2 service fills out Integra’s Carrier Ethernet portfolio and helps the carrier execute its new strategy to move up-market to serve larger customers, according to Mike Kozlowski, director of product management for Integra.
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Mentions: Integra Telecom
Level 3 Receives the Latin America "Best Carrier Ethernet Business Application Award"
Explore Level 3 MediaRoom (Jan 2 2013)
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) today announced it has received the "Best Carrier Ethernet Business Application Award – Caribbean and Latin America" from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).
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Mentions: Level (3)
Verizon Wins Metro Ethernet Forum Awards for Carrier Ethernet Business Services
Explore tmcnet.com (Dec 18 2012)
Verizon has that it has received the top Metro Ethernet Forum awards for its leadership and innovation in developing and delivering Carrier Ethernet business services. “To win the Carrier Ethernet Global Service Provider of the Year award for the fourth year in a row -- on top of our other global accolades -- is a tremendous achievement and a testament to our continued innovation in the Ethernet space,” said Shawn Hakl, vice president for products and solutions at Verizon.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
CenturyLink wins 2012 MEF Carrier Ethernet Award - Dec 6
Explore CenturyLink (Dec 6 2012)
CenturyLink, Inc. received the 2012 "Best Carrier Ethernet Business Application" award by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). CenturyLink was awarded for developing an Ethernet solution for Monroe City Schools in Monroe, La. that provides the school system with a consolidated and highly resilient Ethernet-based infrastructure for managing voice, video and data.
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Mentions: Frost & Sullivan Metro Ethernet Forum
SingTel Launches Next-Gen Carrier Ethernet Network
Explore TelecomTV (Nov 29 2012)
SingTel announced it is the first service provider in the Asia-Pacific region to globally deploy MPLS-TP technology for its ConnectPlus E-Line service, providing its multinational business customers with scalable high-speed connections worldwide.
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VPLS prices decline as much as 39% in established regions
Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 26 2012)
As more providers roll out Ethernet Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), prices are falling, but the lack of service maturity and availability make it a very expensive option in developing regions. According to a new TeleGeography report, Western Europe and the United States saw the largest price drops for VPLS services between the first half of 2011 and the first half of 2012. What helped drive down VPLS costs in Europe were two factors: availability and growing competition.
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Mentions: NTT TeleGeography
Deutsche Telekom connects CERN data centres
Explore Telecompaper (Nov 21 2012)
(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS) and T-Systems Switzerland have been appointed to provide a high-speed data connection between the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) data centre in Geneva and a newly established, remote data centre operated by Wigner Research Centre for Physics in the Hungarian capital Budapest. The Ethernet connection supports transmission speeds up to 100 Gbps. Computer systems will be able to transmit enormous volumes of data via the high-speed Deutsche Telekom ICSS connection between the Geneva and Budapest sites.
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Mentions: Deutsche Telekom
GTS Central Europe wins award for best wholesale services
Explore Telecompaper (Nov 19 2012)
(Telecompaper) GTS Central Europe has won an award for being the 'Best provider of wholesale telecommunications services in Central and Eastern Europe in 2012'. It was granted by Capacity Magazine and GTS won it for the fifth time out of the eight years that the award has been running. GTS said this is another prestigious award besides the MEF award 2012, showing that it is the leader in telecommunications services in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
MEF announces winners of the APAC, North America and Global Carrier Ethernet Awards – 2012
Explore telecomkh (Nov 15 2012)
The winners of the prestigious 2012 MEF Carrier Ethernet Awards for the APAC, North America and Global regions were announced recently, with the APAC awards being presented at the recent MEF APAC Summit in Shanghai and the North America and Global award winners being named at the Light Reading Ethernet Expo in New York
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Mentions: Informa IDC Frost & Sullivan
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