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Wyoming Department of Transportation uses Ethernet over copper to support ...
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jul 20 2011)
The Wyoming Department of Transportation announced today that it has upgraded the traffic control system in Cheyenne to support real-time multipoint communications over Ethernet without replacing the copper wiring that supported its previous system, which used 1200 baud modems for communications.
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The data center as central office of the future?
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 29 2011)
Interconnection announcements between Allied Fiber and DuPont Fabros Technology and between zColo and CENX suggest the tandem switch may be a more appropriate analogy
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum Zayo
The biggest small telco you’ve never heard of
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 28 2011)
North State Communications bets big on fiber plans. Like many Tier 2 and Tier 3 telcos, North State also operates as a CLEC in areas adjacent to its ILEC territory, where it targets business customers. The company offers services such as data, hosted voice, and email. Metro Ethernet is a popular offering.
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Standards key to carrier Ethernet growth
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 13 2011)
Connected Planet recently talked with MEF President and founding member Nan Chen about the organization’s role in establishing the carrier Ethernet industry—and about what the group is working on today.
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Mentions: ITU IEEE Metro Ethernet Forum
Cyan mobile backhaul platform targets wholesale market needs
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 6 2011)
Environmentally hardened, the packet optical transport platform has multi-layer management capabilities (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Cyan SLA Frank Wiener
Carrier Ethernet equipment sees strong growth
Explore Connected Planet Online (May 31 2011)
Service providers are adopting carrier Ethernet in a big way, according to research released late last week from Infonetics. Microwave backhaul was the fastest growing of 10 carrier Ethernet equipment categories that Infonetics tracks—including carrier Ethernet switches, IP core and edge routers, Sonet/SDH equipment, WDM equipment, VDSL, fiber and copper EADS, and EPON, as well as Ethernet and dual Ethernet/TDM microwave equipment.
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Mentions: Connected Planet Infonetics IEEE
Hibernia Atlantic and Sidera expand low-latency offerings
Explore Connected Planet Online (May 2 2011)
Like some other low-latency providers, Sidera Networks started out as the fiber network unit of a competitive local exchange carrier. Previously known as RCN Metro Optical Networks, the company now claims 60 financial customers for its low-latency Xtreme offering.
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Mentions: sidera Sidera Networks
USCarrier plans first regional Ethernet exchange
Explore Connected Planet Online (Apr 13 2011)
USCarrier Telecom, a wholesale carrier operating in the southeastern U.S., announced plans today for an Ethernet exchange throughout its footprint. But the company’s model is a bit different from those of other companies that have entered the Ethernet exchange market, such as Telx, Neutral Tandem, CENX and Equinix.
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Q&A: Tia's Grant Seiffert on a new event, new directions
Explore Connected Planet Online (Apr 12 2011)
Seiffert: From the traditional TIA standpoint there are issues like converged networks [including Carrier Ethernet] and mobile backhaul issues that the industry is challenged with. Those are the easy ones to point your finger at, and there's a lot of interest. ...
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Tinet's EtherCloud offering - new competition for Carrier Ethernet exchanges?
Explore Connected Planet Online (Apr 4 2011)
Neutral Tandem’s Tinet unit calls an Ethernet interconnectivity service announced today “EtherCloud”—but the offering ultimately will compete in the burgeoning carrier Ethernet exchange market.
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Qwest-CoSentry partnership underscores importance of connectivity for cloud ...
Explore Connected Planet Online (Mar 30 2011)
Business customers now will be able to reach the CoSentry data centers through a virtual Ethernet local area network service that extends connectivity across multiple metro markets using Qwest’s IP backbone. Customers will only need to purchase a connection from their location to the closest entry point to the Qwest network.
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Mentions: Qwest
CENX appoints new CEO, reveals financial backers
Explore Connected Planet Online (Feb 4 2011)
Moves suggest the Carrier Ethernet exchange operator could be positioning itself for acquisition or to go public
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FiberLight launches separate IP network for enterprise and government customers
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jan 14 2011)
To access the new network, enterprise and government customers typically would purchase a carrier Ethernet connection from FiberLight, which can also include separate circuits or virtual circuits connecting to FiberLight’s carrier Ethernet network for data center or wide area enterprise network connectivity, Edmond said.
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Megapath targets T-1 replacement market with symmetrical 2 Mb/s Carrier Ethernet service
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jan 5 2011)
A new 2 Mb/s symmetrical Carrier Ethernet offering from Megapath targets the T-1 replacement market, offering a bit higher bandwidth at a lower price, Megapath Vice President of Product Management Arnaud Gautier told Connected Planet today.
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Mentions: MegaPath
Infonetics: Telecom capex spending has hit bottom
Explore Connected Planet Online (Dec 15 2010)
According to the firm’s new Service Provider Capex, Opex, ARPU and Subscribers report, worldwide telecom capital expenditures are on track to decline 3% for 2010 to about $289 billion, following a 5.3% drop in 2009. But Infonetics predicts a 1.6% increase in telecom carrier capex in 2011, with continued growth to $321 billion in 2014 before growth slows again.
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Mentions: Infonetics
Verizon launches global managed Carrier Ethernet
Explore Connected Planet Online (Oct 27 2010)
A new managed Ethernet offering from Verizon announced today is a reminder of how avidly the carrier has been pursuing multinational customers. The carrier previously offered Ethernet services globally, along with managed versions of other services such as frame relay and private IP.
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Mentions: Verizon Communications Inc.
Analysis: Assurance solutions must be open, flexible and scalable
Explore Connected Planet Online (Oct 5 2010)
Voice, video, data and mobile services moving over IP and Carrier Ethernet means modular, standards-based platforms will be increasingly sought.
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Mentions: IEEE
FTTH providers ponder upgrade options
Explore Connected Planet Online (Sep 17 2010)
I’ve been hearing a lot of ideas recently about the best way to future-proof fiber-to-the-home networks.
“Aren’t they supposed to be future-proof?” some may ask.
Well, yes and no.
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Neutral Tandem's Tinet buy could create world's largest Ethernet exchange
Explore Connected Planet Online (Sep 10 2010)
Neutral Tandem’s (NASDAQ:TNDM) move to acquire global wholesale Ethernet provider Tinet, announced late yesterday, has the potential to create what would likely be the world’s largest carrier Ethernet exchange.
“The exchange idea hasn’t taken off, but this will be one of the reasons why it will take off,” said Surendra Saboo, chief operating officer for Neutral Tandem.
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Is it time to place Ethernet exchange bets?
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jul 12 2010)
With a high-profile AT&T exec taking the reins at CENX, the exchange market is more real -- and important -- than ever.
There are a variety of things that define a new market as "real." Multiple vendors targeting it. Customers making purchases, not just kicking the tires. Money flowing in from investors. Big name executives willing to risk their careers on the opportunity.
The Ethernet exchange market looks to be checking off all those boxes one by one. The latest: AT&T's Sanford Brown, a key player on the service provider side of the Ethernet movement, taking the reins today ...
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Zayo expands wholesale footprint with American Fiber Systems acquisition
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 30 2010)
Investors that jumped on the fiber network construction bandwagon more than a decade ago with the idea of seeing a big payback within a few years are finally finding an exit strategy. A perfect example is today’s announcement that Zayo Group will purchase American Fiber Systems Holding Co., a venture capital–backed fiber network operator that got its start in 1999.
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What low-latency milestone means for 'plain old Ethernet' service
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 23 2010)
Spread Networks' Chicago-to-New York specialty fiber network is pioneering new capabilities that could impact more mainstream services, as well.
As IP and Ethernet protocols have moved into the telecom mainstream, the biggest focus has been on decreasing network costs (and more recently, increasing traveled distances via advances like coherent optics), not on reducing network latency.
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Mentions: Level (3)
Packet-optical: Not for everyone
Explore Connected Planet Online (Jun 23 2010)
The discussions surrounding the merit of packet-optical transport systems have reached the intensity associated with the proposed introduction of several billions of dollars of new hardware into carrier networks.
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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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