After announcing its initial gigabit deployments earlier this year, Louisiana-based telco EATEL already is preparing itself for the day it may need to deliver even higher broadband speeds. The company today said it will be deploying equipment that currently supports…
Indiana Fiber Network plans to upgrade its core fiber network to support speeds of 100 Gbps, matching and even exceeding the speeds of networks operated by some of the world’s largest carriers. IFN, operated by 20 local phone companies, provides…
Windstream said today that it is deploying equipment that will support speeds of 500 Gbps over DWDM super-channels in its long-haul network. The equipment is the Infinera DTN-X optical networking platform. Carrier long-haul networks typically operate at speeds no greater…
Allied Fiber, the company that plans to build a unique nationwide dark fiber network, had a launch event in West Palm Beach, Fla. today — although much of the network has yet to be built. “The duct between Miami and…
As the telecom industry explores networking technology supporting speeds greater than 100 Gbps, some new thinking will be required. Take Comcast’s announcement today that it successfully completed a live field trial of 1 terabit per second (Tbps) optical transmission over…
Packet optical transport is finding its way closer to the network edge, as an announcement today from Adtran illustrates. Adtran’s new product is the Total Access 5004 ONE – a compact high-density platform designed to aggregate a mix of traffic…
(North Platte, Nebraska) September 29, 2011 – Today, Pinpoint Communications announced the completion of a 1,700 square foot, free standing data center in North Platte. The facility’s anchor tenant is an earthstation uplink/downlink for a major wireless carrier, leasing half…
Ottawa, ON/Marietta, GA –October 13, 2010 – Optelian, a trusted designer and manufacturer of optical transport systems, today announced that Blackfoot Telecommunications Group has deployed its LightGAIN 40-channel DWDM system. A significant advantage of the LightGAIN is its building-block architecture…
MANKATO, Minn., Apr 26, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq: HTCO) today announced the expansion of its fiber-optic network to Sioux Falls, S.D. and Fargo, N.D. The network expansion to Sioux Falls and Fargo will add 350 fiber route miles…
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