07.22.2019 — NEW YORK – Verizon today announced the launch of Software-Defined Interconnect (SDI), a solution that works with Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™), offering organizations with a Private IP network direct connectivity to 115 International Business Exchange™ (IBX ®)…
Under a multi-year strategic alliance announced today, AT&T Communications will work with IBM to modernize AT&T Business Solutions’ internal software applications, enabling migrations to the IBM Cloud. IBM will provide infrastructure to support AT&T Business’s applications. AT&T Business will use…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – June 19, 2019 — EdgeConneX®, the pioneer in edge data centers, announced today the launch of local cloud on-ramp services to enterprises in the Memphis area through partnerships with Comcast Business and Megaport. Through these partnerships, Memphis area businesses will have…
Things are taking off for AT&T and Uber. In fact, the hope is that they will go straight up. A new AT&T and Uber partnership is focused on exploring electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) and drones. The carrier…
AT&T is making progress on its plan to use software controlled generic hardware devices, also known as white boxes, in its 5G wireless network core. In a blog post this week, AT&T Chief Technology Officer and President of AT&T Labs…
A new wireless testbed in Salt Lake City uses an open programmable approach, with the goal of making it easier for academic and industry researchers to develop new antennas, to experiment with network slicing and to conduct other research in…
New 10GB optical networking hardware from Cincinnati Bell unit CBTS, launched today, aims to reduce the cost and complexity of broadband deployment. The offering is one example of broader CBTS efforts to give network operators a new level of flexibility…
Spectrum Enterprise, part of Charter Communications, unveiled the nationwide availability of its Managed SD-WAN service yesterday. Spectrum Enterprise claims a level of differentiation over competing SD-WAN solutions is an integration of SD-WAN and Ethernet with their solution. The Managed SD-WAN…
5G network slicing – the virtualizing of networks on a shared physical infrastructure for specific use cases – will be a $66 billion market by 2026, according to a 5G network slicing revenue forecast from ABI Research. It is a…
MONROE, La., Nov. 6, 2018 – To continue supporting enterprise IT infrastructure and connectivity needs, TierPoint and CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announced that CenturyLink’s Cloud Connect Dynamic Connections will be offered out of TierPoint data centers across the United States. Thirty-five of 43 TierPoint data centers are…
Gigabit connectivity will be “transformational,” said Kevin O’Toole, senior vice president of project management for Comcast Business today, noting that Comcast gigabit is now available across 96% of the company’s footprint. O’Toole was equally enthusiastic about SD-WAN technology, commenting that…
Two and a half years after it was established under the auspices of Facebook, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has made substantial progress toward its goal of hastening the pace of internet connectivity globally. A blog post coinciding with the…
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