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.

Packet-optical transport systems have gained rapid adoption and wide-scale deployment to support increased traffic and performance requirements for key applications globally. Scalability, performance, and economics have established these new systems as the metro building blocks of choice for wireless backhaul, business Ethernet, broadband backhaul, data center interconnect, and wholesale network initiatives.

Telecommunications information and logistics company Global Capacity has expanded One Marketplace Access Exchange with the addition of Ethernet Access services with physical interconnection points in Chicago, Illinois and Dallas, Texas.

Global Capacity announced the addition of Ethernet Access services to the One Marketplace Access Exchange with physical interconnection points in Chicago, IL and Dallas, TX. Customers will now be able to request automated

Still, efforts to build truly high speed, future-proof networks are moving forward, through both nonprofit organizations as well as private companies that are staking their future profitability on network builds--not just fiber, but hybrid networks featuring coax and fiber, like those being built by MSOs like Comcast. Upgrading the capacity of copper has enabled Ethernet over Copper services to remain viableand will extend the service life of the existing copper network.

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 ...

The connection to the company’s ILEC footprint will provide wholesale carriers with interconnects ranging from 3 Mbps to 1 Gbps. To meet the increasing demand from carriers for higher bandwidth and Ethernet, Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) announced today at COMPTEL PLUS the release of Carrier Switched Ethernet. This service will provide carriers with access to Windstream’s ILEC footprint through a network interconnect that will make it more cost-effective for car

Communications network provide MegaPath Corp.'s aggressive Ethernet over Copper buildout has put the carrier among the nation's largest providers of EoC service, reaching over 19 major markets, the company said in a statement. San Jose, Calif.-based MegaPath currently offers EoC services in major, high-profile markets, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco and the District of Columbia, delivering symmetrical speeds from 2 to 45 Mbps. In the past year, MegaPath has aggressively expanded its EoC footprint. In September, it announced it would provide the service on a nationwide basis. Since January, the company had ...

North American operator MegaPath is providing on-net Ethernet over Copper (EoC) services in the United States...

(Telecompaper) KPN is withdrawing its offer WEAS Snel Online as of 01 April. WEAS (Wholesale Ethernet Access Services) is a managed service for Ethernet over copper or fibre, at up to 1Gbps symmetric speeds...

(Telecompaper) Mexican fixed-line operator Alestra has deployed a Gigabit Ethernet access network at the Autonomous University of La Laguna (UAL)...

In a guest article in Forbes over the weekend, Level 3 CEO James Crowe opened a new front against the incumbent last mile providers. Or, more accurately, he reopened a front that the FCC has been trying to sit on for a very long time. He took them to task for exacerbating the very spectrum shortage [...]

One of the hottest areas in Carrier Ethernet right now is self-healing access and aggregation rings based on the G.8032 Ethernet Protection Switching standard.  We covered the technology last year, not long after the finalization of Version 2 of the standard, which enables end-to-end services to be extended across multiple rings.  

One particular issue of concern for the CLEC community, many of which still use the ILEC copper infrastructure to deliver services, is that many of the incumbents that are in the process of transitioning from the PSTN to IP believe that they won't need to provide access to competitive providers, a perception that is in contrast to the goals of the 1996 Act. At the same competitive providers that use the traditional copper network to deliver voice and Ethernet fear that their service delivery platform could be compromised as telcos replace copper with fiber in their last mile networks ...

BT's wholesale access division Openreach is moving to early market deployment launch of Multicast for Generic Ethernet Access (GEA) product feature with effect from 1 April. The product is purchased at a Layer 2 Switch (L2S) level, with a one-off connection cost of GBP 1,200, an annual rental of GBP 10 per 5mb per L2S and modification price of GBP 10 per L2S.