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…
Los Angeles, 20 May 2020 – MEF is pleased to announce that 24 service providers from around the world now offer a combined total of 77 certified MEF 3.0 SD-WAN and Carrier Ethernet (CE) services. These innovative providers have demonstrated that their solutions…
Ziply, a unit of WaveDivision Capital, has acquired telecom infrastructure provider Wholesail Networks and has announced 13 Northwest markets that will receive fiber upgrades. The markets include tier 2 and 3 markets in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana – the…
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI – March 31, 2020 – Bluebird Network LLC, a Midwest telecommunications company, is excited to announce the completion of its acquisition of the Illinois Network Alliance (INA), becoming the Alliance’s sole owner. This purchase empowers Bluebird to expand its…
Comcast and Charter/Spectrum are two of four service providers that have received MEF 3.0 SD-WAN certification from global standards body MEF. The MEF 3.0 SD-WAN standard, also known as MEF 70, defines key attributes of SD-WAN services. Service providers’ compliance…
Columbus, OH – February 25, 2020 – Horizon, a regional fiber broadband company based in Ohio, has announced a new connection to the Equinix Data Center on Cermak Road in Chicago, IL, a major Internet on-ramp hub for the Midwest. By…
Competitive business-only regional fiber network operator Everstream said today that it will enter five new markets and invest more than $250 million during 2020. The moves, which are part of a strategy that includes both organic growth and acquisitions, are…
Bluebird Network has completed a 61 mile fiber expansion in Springfield, MO. The project interconnects major business areas in the city to both the Bluebird Underground Data Center, which also is in Springfield, and the company’s Midwestern fiber network. That…
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announced that it won a task order, worth up to $1.6 billion, to provide secure network services and IT modernization solutions to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) via the General Services Administration’s Enterprise…
Regional fiber broadband carrier Horizon today announced the launch of Horizon Cloud Express, which will enable businesses to connect directly to more than 300 cloud service providers. Horizon now offers a direct fiber Ethernet connection from a business to their…
AT&T said it has deployed 400 Gbps connectivity on its backbone network between Dallas and Atlanta using white box hardware – which the company said is believed to be a first. “This isn’t a proof of concept, but a significant…
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is holding its annual conference this week in Los Angeles and the focus is abundantly clear. SD-WAN, the emerging enterprise connectivity application standard, is all the rage here and MEF leadership outlined the organization’s intention…
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