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MegaPath wraps up its EoC roll network expansion effort
Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 3 2012)
MegaPath, a CLEC that's been aggressively expanding its wares through various acquisitions, on Wednesday put the finishing touches on its nationwide Carrier Ethernet over Copper (EoC) network build. Now available in the top 50 national U.S. markets, customers can use EoC to access MegaPath's Core MPLS network and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities to ensure their applications get the necessary support.
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Mentions: XO Communications NuVox Quality of Service
BT to provide managed services to British American Tobacco
Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 2 2012)
With the IP-based network, BT said British American Tobacco will be able to prioritize various types of traffic according to its business needs while reducing total cost of ownership of its communications infrastructure. Over the past year, BT has been continually expanding its Ethernet and overall network presence in various international regions, including Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin America and the United States.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group BT Global Services
Carrier Ethernet and Cloud: An Unbeatable Combination?
Explore CEN Feature (Oct 2 2012)
“Operators that combine cloud services with Carrier Ethernet are on a path to top-line growth that non-carriers will be unable to follow.” So says Informa analyst Camille Mendler.
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Mentions: Informa tw telecom
Comcast to deliver 305 Mbps speed tier over Ethernet-based FTTH
Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 28 2012)
Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) on Thursday revealed plans that it will soon offer a 305 Mbps/65 Mbps speed tier over a point-to-point Ethernet-based Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network. Comcast's fiber-based $300 service tier is, not surprisingly, being used to target markets where Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is offering its 300/65 Mbps Quantum speed tiers, according to Broadband Reports.
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It's a bumpy road to high-speed networking
Explore Embedded Systems Design (Sep 28 2012)
An increasing number of cellular subscribers and the greater data bandwidth per subscriber are driving higher bandwidth in the mobile backhaul. Cellular data is backhauled from base stations and remote controllers using various technologies. These technologies include T1 lines, microwave transmission, Ethernet over SONET, Ethernet over OTN (optical transport network), or PON (passive optical transport) networks.
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Mentions: IEEE
Mobile Backhaul - Overture Appoints New CEO
Explore Light Reading (Sep 24 2012)
Carrier Ethernet access market leader Overture Networks Inc. has named Mike Aquino as its new president and CEO, with incumbent chief executive Jeff Reedy sliding along the management table to become chief strategy officer.
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Mentions: Overture Networks Overture Networks Inc.
Mobile Backhaul Drives Ericsson Investment in CENX
Explore CEN Feature (Sep 18 2012)
Carrier Ethernet exchange operator CENX announced this week that wireless equipment manufacturer Ericsson has made a strategic investment in the company. Ericsson was among several companies – including Verizon – that participated in a $9.5 million round of funding that CENX picked up earlier this year.
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The Evolution of Carrier Ethernet 2.0
Explore iirtransmissionseries.wordpress.com (Sep 14 2012)
The MEF launched Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) in February 2012. The MEF’s latest re-invention of Ethernet will enable Ethernet services grow from today’s $USD 28 billion global market up to a $USD 48 billion by 2016. CE 2.0 is about taking Ethernet up another level. The fundamental tenets of CE 2.0 are intelligently supporting data-centric mobile services, facilitating cost efficient inter-carrier interconnection and enabling secure cloud services.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Cox Business offers HFC-based 80, 100 Mbps Carrier Ethernet services
Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 13 2012)
Cox Communications on Wednesday launched an HFC-based version of its Ethernet service that puts 80 and 100 Mbps speeds in the hands of the small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB). Initially Cox will offer the new speed tiers in Acadiana, La., with plans to enable other markets later this year and early in 2013.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group Cox Business
There's still plenty of gold in existing copper networks
Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 13 2012)
I'd like to draw your attention to our latest eBook, Finding New Gold in Copper. Extending fiber to every premise may be the endgame for service providers, but the reality is that many operators with existing copper networks can't financially justify that approach for either businesses or residential customers.
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Mentions: NuVox Hawaiian Telcom IEEE
Overture, GTS CE bring carrier Ethernet to Central Europe - Telecompaper
Explore Telecompaper (Sep 11 2012)
Networking equipment maker Overture Networks has partnered with GTS CE to bring high-speed Carrier Ethernet services to retail and wholesale customers across Central and Eastern Europe. GTS’ services were launched simultaneously in five countries, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Poland. Overture’s Carrier Ethernet over Copper (EoC) platforms have been deployed at approximately 130 Central Offices (COs) in Central and Eastern Europe for service delivery in the first m
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Mentions: Overture Networks
GTS Central Europe Activates Ethernet-over-Copper
Explore businesswire.com (Sep 11 2012)
GTS CE has launched Carrier Ethernet services to both retail and wholesale customers across Central and Eastern Europe using Carrier Ethernet over Copper (EoC) platforms. GTS’ services were launched simultaneously in five countries, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Poland.
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Mentions: Quality of Service Metro Ethernet Forum Overture Networks
SolveForce Announces Delaware MPLS Business Providers, Ethernet Services
Explore virtual-strategy.com (Sep 10 2012)
SolveForce announces its local roll out on Delaware MPLS, T1 Line, T3 Internet, VoIP, Ethernet and Nationwide Delaware Point to Point lines plus Metropolitan Delaware Business Internet Services. SolveForce is proving itself once again to be the nationwide leader in telecommunications and lowest prices.
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Telstra Wholesale launches fresh fixed data services
Explore Telecompaper (Aug 30 2012)
(Telecompaper - may require registration) Telstra Wholesale has launched a new suite of data products. Data Advantage is a complementary set of new layer 2 data products, specifically designed for wholesale customers who need to move more customer data, more quickly. The portfolio offers four products: Managed Leased Line, a transmission product with both SDH and Ethernet interfaces; Ethernet Access, built on a new VPLS enabled network; Ethernet Backhaul, for customers with large capacity requirements; and Wavelength, a very high capacity point-to-point fibre product which will cover NBN points of interconnect.
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Mammoth Revamps, Quintuples Its Backbone
Explore Telecom Ramblings (Aug 27 2012)
Mammoth Networks says it has completed a major native Ethernet upgrade to its backbone, boosting capacity throughout its Western territory by five-fold. The upgrade covers nine key sites and a dozen markets, including Albuquerque, Billings, and Spokane.
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Mentions: Zayo
FCC temporarily suspends effort to deregulate special access
Explore FierceTelecom (Aug 24 2012)
tw telecom, a Colorado-based CLEC, believes this measure is a step in the right direction. Although tw telecom has aggressively built out its own fiber-based Ethernet network targeting businesses, it still has to rent last mile network facilities from the large incumbent players like AT&T and Verizon.
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Mentions: tw telecom
Why bother with fiber? Here's a few reasons
Explore FierceTelecom (Aug 23 2012)
Fiber offers two much more important facets to the high-speed game: a true, high-speed backbone for all these other types of networks, be they coax, broadband wireless, or DSL; and essential future-proofing for high-speed transport. If you want fast and reliable data transport, the speed of light is the way to go.
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FairPoint extends DSL broadband to 14 more New Hampshire towns
Explore FierceTelecom (Aug 22 2012)
While its Q2 2012 earnings reportillustrated that landline voice losses did cut into its total revenues, it saw growth in both broadband and business services. Its broadband subscriber base grew 5.1 percent sequentially over Q1 2012, while a rise in Carrier Ethernet services drove up business revenues to $10.2 million in the quarter.
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tw telecom Dials Up Enterprise Ethernet
Explore CEN Feature (Aug 16 2012)
How much bandwidth does an enterprise really need? The definitive answer is, it depends, which is the point behind tw telecom’s new Dynamic Capacity service. Launched August 6 in all of tw telecom’s 75 markets, Dynamic Capacity lets enterprise customers scale up their E-line business Ethernet bandwidth and capacity to meet their short-term needs.
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Mentions: tw telecom
Carrier Ethernet Makes Its Mark
Explore Better Bank Systems (Aug 13 2012)
Carrier Ethernet is more flexible. Service providers typically install lines into customer premises that can deliver as much as 10Gbps of bandwidth, but generally, customers provision far less. But later, upgrades are easy to do, for all that's needed is a reconfiguring of network equipment. And this takes only a few days, at most, versus the weeks often required to modify a TDM-based network.
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Mentions: Infonetics
AT&T leads US Ethernet sales, Vertical Systems Group says
Explore FierceTelecom (Aug 13 2012)
AT&T continues to dominate the U.S. Ethernet services market in terms of port shares sold, according to Vertical Systems Group's mid-year Business Ethernet Leaderboard. Ethernet was a major factor in the telco's wireline and business services Q2 2012 results. During the quarter ended June 30, AT&T reported its overall business revenues declined 1.5 percent, to $9.1 billion, a factor it attributed to a drop in legacy ATM and Frame Relay sales as more customers migrated to next-gen IP/MP
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group XO Communications Qwest
Report: AT&T tops for Ethernet services; Cox 5th overall
Explore cedmagazine.com (Aug 10 2012)
AT&T is the top dog on Vertical Systems Group’s latest business Ethernet services leaderboard, while Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable were ranked fifth and seventh, respectively. Verizon ranked second on the leaderboard, followed by tw telecom, CenturyLink, Cox, XO, Time Warner Cable and Level 3. Cox was previously ranked fourth in the leaderboard rankings, while Qwest, which is now owned by CenturyLink, was ranked fifth.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group NuVox Qwest
Bridging the Ethernet-Over-Fiber Gap
Explore OSP Magazine (Aug 10 2012)
Driven by the convergence of bandwidth-intensive applications like enterprise automation, streaming media, cloud-based services, and mobile data, service providers are pushing their legacy infrastructures to new limits. In the past year the market has seen service providers deploy 100 Mbps service with Ethernet over Bonded Copper, PAETEC announced a 200 Mbps service, and, although with less fanfare, service providers are delivering higher speed on the low end too.
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Mentions: SLA Overture Networks Paetec
IX Reach adds new London data centre to its network
Explore Total Telecom (Aug 4 2012)
IX Reach, a layer 2 Ethernet carrier, is pleased to have become a partner of LDeX and added LDeX1 – a state of the art, network independent 22,000sq ft London data centre – to its PoP (Point of Presence) list and is able to offer their full range of services; capacity from 100Mbps to multiple 10Gbps over Point-to-Point/Multipoint connection, full colocation options and also a Direct Connect into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform. By using rack space in the Greater London area data cen
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laurabicom » CLECs to ILECs: Don't hang up your copper networks!
Good article, thanks for posting. We also have an article on CLEC: http://blog.bicomsystems.com/clec
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I also had the honor to participate in the Conference. I spoke on the topic ...
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