AT&T has added several Nokia offerings to the AT&T Private Cellular Networks offering. Those networks are expected to appeal to businesses with enterprise and industrial applications. By establishing their own private cellular networks, businesses can gain a level of privacy,…
The evolution of work at home continues with the introduction of the Comcast Business Teleworker VPN. Comcast is partnering with Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, for the VPN platform. The COVID-19 pandemic has quickly restructured how people work. The…
End user complaints about business network brownouts have grown 60% since the start of COVID-19, according to a new report from Accedian. The report authors define network brownouts as unexpected performance degradations, excessive slowdowns and network congestion that impact application…
The Social Security Administration has selected Verizon to upgrade and modernize its unified communications and contact center (UC and CC) infrastructure. The initiative is known as the Next Generation Telephone Project, or NGTP. The goal of the Social Security Next…
AT&T and Ericsson are partnering to provide private cellular networks utilizing shared CBRS spectrum that the companies say will optimize localized activities that demand low latency and high security. AT&T Private Cellular Networks are an extension of the idea that…
Uniti said yesterday that it will begin offering nationwide dark fiber services on 2.2 million fiber strand miles miles spanning 35 states in Tier I, II and III markets. The company said it has “full ownership and use of this…
CenturyLink unveiled a new branding strategy today, effectively breaking itself into two brands. The company introduced Lumen Technologies, or just Lumen, as its new brand for its largest business segment, enterprise and wholesale. The CenturyLink brand will remain and will…
In a period in which the COVID-19 pandemic brought the US Ethernet market largely to a halt, seven providers qualified for the Vertical Systems Group mid-year 2020 Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard, the firm says. The top VSG carrier Ethernet rankings, in…
The enterprise WLAN market in the United States declined by 9.5% year over year as the COVID-19 pandemic closed businesses and slowed investments, according to IDC’s Worldwide 2Q 2020 Wireless LAN Tracker. That decline was largely offset by consumer WLAN…
The COVID-19 impact on telecom business revenues hasn’t been as bad as financial analysts at MoffettNathanson expected it to be. But the worst is yet to come, according to the researchers. While U.S. gross domestic product dropped at a 32.9%…
An Everstream St. Louis expansion will begin with a 150 fiber mile project in the northwest suburbs of O’Fallon and St. Charles. The network in the communities, in which several Fortune 500 companies have offices, is scheduled to be lit…
Consolidated Communications has joined the ranks of service providers offering work from home, or WFH, services that provide features and functions equivalent to traditional office settings. The offering, dubbed Consolidated Enterprise@Home, offers business-class Internet connectivity and unified communications by extending…