Frontier invested over $74M to improve Ohio consumer, business services in 2011

Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 14 2012) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Managed Data Services , Metro Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul

Over the last 19 months, Frontier has expanded its Ohio broadband footprint into an additional 70 new neighborhoods, a move that Davidson said expanded the availability of DSL services "in our service territory from 68 percent to 78 percent." In addition to consumer DSL, Frontier has been building out its suite of fiber-based Metro Ethernet and Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) services for area business customers. (Read Full Article)

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Frontier sets sights on rural EoC opportunities

Explore FierceTelecom (Feb 7 2012) Access , Middle Mile , Mobile Backhaul , Regional

...iana, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. In each of these markets it can deliver service off each of the ROADM nodes that Frontier has connected together. "We have spent a quite a bit of money adding ROADM networks into these acquired properties and enabling them with Ethernet," said Michael Golob, SVP E... (Read Full Article)

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Frontier Outlines Packet-Optical Transport Network Strategies

Explore Telecompetitor (Apr 7 2011) Middle Mile , Managed Data Services

...rk and will have them deployed across more than 6,500 route miles by midyear 2011. They’ve selected ROADM platforms from Tellabs. In West Virginia, where Frontier received heightened scrutiny since they ba... (Read Full Article)

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OPEX – The elephant in the room

Explore CEN Feature (Jul 15 2010)

...et switches, SONET/SDH MSPPs (which were historically used to transport Carrier Ethernet), DWDM and ROADM systems into highly integrated systems. Naturally this integrated approach offers material reductio... (Read Full Article)

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Packet Optical Transport--Evolution vs. revolution

Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 19 2010) Access , Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul , National

...work uses Carrier Ethernet Switch Routers (CESR) and Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexers (ROADM). There is little consensus, however, on how to make the transition from today's network to the lon... (Read Full Article)

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