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Genachowski Punts AT&T’s Sunset Request to Wheeler
Explore Telecom Ramblings (May 13 2013)
We simply don’t have an alternative regulatory regime in the IP world that is even remotely prepared to replace the archaic regulatory framework that is now such an integral part of the PSTN. Even within the limited framework of interconnection the IP world has a mishmash of ad-hoc interconnection infrastructures, like peering and Ethernet NNIs and such, whose rules are not entirely unlike the pirate code a la Captain Barbossa in Pirates of the Carribean.
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Guest Blog: Observations from Metro Connect 2013 in Miami this Week
Explore CEN Feature (Feb 21 2013)
For 13 years, Capacity Media has hosted the wholesale carrier conference Metro Connect in Miami. This event brings together the most senior executives from leading US service providers, and every year proves to be a fabulous forum for the big ideas in telecom. The following is a loose compilation of my observations and a few photos.
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Mentions: Cyan XO Communications Zayo Group
U.S. Regulator FCC wants gigabit Ethernet in all 50 states by 2015
Explore zdnet.com (Jan 18 2013)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a challenge to bring gigabit Ethernet speeds to all US states within the next two to three years. Specifically, the FCC wants to see gigabit Ethernet speeds deployed in at least one community in each state by 2015.
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Alpheus purchases Net Star Telecommunications
Explore FierceTelecom (Dec 12 2012)
Upon completing the integration of Net Star operations into its fold, Net Star customers will gain access to a growing portfolio of data center facilities in addition to a growing base of next-gen IP services such as Ethernet and cloud. When the deal is completed, Net Star customers will benefit from an extended Ethernet footprint that includes a mix of both fiber-based Ethernet and Ethernet over Copper (EoC). Ethernet has been a big growth engine for Alpheus. As of October, the service provider extended its copper and fiber-based Ethernet footprint to 94,000 buildings. Already available in 123 central offices ...
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Mentions: Overture Networks Alpheus Communications
FCC lifts restrictions on cable/CLEC mergers, acquisitions
Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 17 2012)
Cable operators may lack the pull of a large telco, but one of the things they do have is an aggressive spirit and a lack of legacy services that, for example, telcos must cannibalize when they earn a new Carrier Ethernet customer.
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Mentions: Time Warner Cable
FCC to relax rules for cable-CLEC M&A
Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 12 2012)
Cable operators may finally get more freedom to acquire CLECs to expand their business service capabilities, according to a Stifel Nicolaus report, which said that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may relax rules that govern these deals. One of the advantages that cable operators have in the business market is that they don't have to cannibalize existing T1 or TDM-based voice revenues as they offer IP-based SIP Trunking and Ethernet.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group XO Communications Time Warner Cable
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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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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Industry Spotlight: Cologix’s Grant van Rooyen
Explore Telecom Ramblings (Jul 19 2012)
Cologix emerged onto the data center and interconnection stage a little less than a year ago, after operating in stealth for a while. Starting with Dallas and three Canadian markets last year, they recently announced expansions in Toronto and Dallas, purchased the Minnesota Gateway and added yet more depth in Toronto by buying Carrier Connex.
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Special access regulation only a first step, says NoChokePoints coalition
Explore FierceTelecom (Jun 25 2012)
The FCC's proposed changing in regulations for pricing of dedicated lines is a "welcome first step" in addressing the issue of price deregulation, says a special interest group, but it won't change the way major telcos have been doing business in currently deregulated markets. The NoChokePoints coalition, a group that wants the FCC to change current special access pricing rules, is asking the FCC to scrap rules established in 1999 that allow large incumbent carriers like Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) to seek price deregulation of special access services—dedicated lines used by businesses for ...
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Mentions: XO Communications tw telecom
FCC order on business line pricing may not fully reregulate
Explore Computerworld Singapore (Jun 21 2012)
AT&T and Verizon control about 80 percent of the special access market, coalition members said. U.S. businesses rely on special access services -- dedicated lines ranging from 56 Kbps to Ethernet speeds -- for broadband, for credit-card processing, for cash machines and other telecom services. Mobile carriers and competing telecom carriers use special access for backhaul.
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Mentions: tw telecom
FCC eyes special access regulation, draws criticism from broadband supporters
Explore FierceTelecom (Jun 7 2012)
The Federal Communications Commission is taking a look at "special access" rate regulation, which has some broadband Internet supporters a bit concerned that the FCC is ramping up to micromanage a space where it's been largely absent. For those who don't know, special access services are large pipe--mostly copper--connections used by businesses and mobile carriers to connect to the Internet, and about 80 percent of them are controlled by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T). Most see special access as the "middle mile of the Internet," and those original networks are quickly being supplanted by faster ...
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The FCC Noses Under the Broadband Internet Tent
Explore Forbes.com (Jun 6 2012)
Like other aspects of the broadband revolution, that market is evolving rapidly. Cable, fiber-optic and high-speed Carrier Ethernet loops are the future of the middle mile, quickly displacing the legacy copper networks of traditional phone companies. Copper simply can’t handle the speeds necessary for exploding Internet traffic, especially for mobile backhaul. Gigabit Internet will never run on these circuits, which average speeds of only 1.5 Megabits per second.
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Special-access proceeding wastes FCC's time and companies' capital
Explore FierceWireless (Jun 6 2012)
Enterprises can also select from an array of providers of the newest technologies, like Carrier Ethernet over fiber: Nearly sixty percent of that market is served by names like tw telecom, Cox and Time Warner Cable, XO, Level3, and Cogent. Yet heavy regulation of the traditional phone companies continues.
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Mentions: Time Warner Cable tw telecom
Disaster Recovery Demand Helps Fuel Canadian Carrier Ethernet Growth for Primus
Explore CEN Feature (May 22 2012)
Primus Telecommunications Canada attributes a 250% uptick in Carrier Ethernet sales over the last six months, in part, to increased interest in disaster recovery and business continuity.
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Transforming Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Concepts into Business Winning Realities
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 26 2012)
Please join us for the first in the 2012 series of webinars brought to you by Carrier Ethernet News to learn how service providers are Transforming Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Concepts into Business Winning Realities.
NOTE: The date of this webinar has changed. It is now May 16, 2012 at 14:00GMT (10am U.S. ET),
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Carrier Ethernet 2.0: A Real Game Changer
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 29 2012)
With Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification set to begin in Q2, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) specification is poised to take the Ethernet world by storm. The specification is a Godsend of sorts to carriers and enterprises that are deploying Carrier Ethernet to meet their burgeoning data networking needs, according to Sam Masud, principal of Q3 Analytix, a Washington, D.C.-based market research firm.
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Transforming Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Concepts into Business Winning Realities
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 26 2012)
Please join us for the first in the 2012 series of webinars brought to you by Carrier Ethernet News to learn how service providers are Transforming Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Concepts into Business Winning Realities.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Competitive service providers launch Broadband Coalition advocacy group
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 16 2012)
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 ...
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Mentions: NuVox Hawaiian Telcom EarthLink
Where we're at with broadband stimulus and rural Internet access
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 15 2012)
Consumer and business demand for better, faster broadband also appears to be picking up, as is the competition to provide it. Incumbent carriers like CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are bridging speed gaps with technologies like Ethernet over Copper, while cable operators, fast moving up in the broadband pack, offer Internet technologies that utilize their existing coax lines.
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Mentions: NuVox
Telmex puts Alcatel-Lucent to work for its broadband network expansion
Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 6 2012)
Telmex has put wireline broadband on its list as a key initiative, one that includes a mix of hybrid copper/fiber and Fiber to the Home (FTTH) networks. To reach that goal, the service provider is leveraging VDSL2 and GPON equipment, including its ISAM platforms from Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) to deliver a suite of higher broadband data and video services. ADSL2 demo video (Source: Alcatel-Lucent) Serving as a means to backhaul and manage its broadband and video traffic, Telmex will also deploy IP/MPLS Carrier Ethernet solution. The agreement with Alcatel-Lucent is part of Telmex's broader effort to expand ...
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ACM Research: Analysis of Windstream / PAETEC Deal
If completed, this deal will help to accomplish several important objectives for Windstream as it continues to dive deeper into the business services market. The acquisition brings added scale to Windstream's business services channel, adds depth to its business product portfolio and, most importantly, grows its long haul and metro U.S. fiber footprint.
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Level 3 maintains it will complete Global Crossing deal despite DOJ investigation, XO protest
Explore FierceTelecom (Jul 14 2011)
A deal is a deal, right? Well, Level 3 Communications' (Nasdaq: LVLT) proposed acquisition of Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) is far from done as the Justice Department is now expanding its investigation of the deal.
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Net Neutrality: The FCC Muddies the Waters
Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Dec 22 2010)
While they were not explicitly named, this kind of dark cloud could inhibit the pace of carrier’s investments building out enterprise WANs built on MPLS and Carrier Ethernet services. That could in turn a chilling effect on the adoption of many types of business applications, including the use of enterprise-grade WANs to support UC and related collboration technologies on a multi-site basis.
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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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