COLUMBIA, MO – AUGUST 13, 2020 – Bluebird Network—a high capacity fiber internet and transport services provider and underground data center owner—is strengthening its fiber backbone in Columbia, MO, with one of the single largest fiber build outs in the…
Ciena will build a National Converged Optical Network (NCON) for Windstream, the companies announced today. The Windstream NCON network is expected to be operational in the third quarter. NCON will connect cities across the carrier’s national network and provide what…
Windstream, which expects to emerge from bankruptcy later this year, is getting set to support 400G core transport. The company says that it has completed four sites in its nationwide core IP network upgrade using the Nokia 7750 service router…
Australian service provider Telstra plans to expand its U.S. network infrastructure by increasing bandwidth capacity on its trans-Pacific subsea cables and opening two new points-of-presence (PoPs) in the region as well as upgrading many of its in-country circuits to enhance…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. and LENEXA, Kan. Windstream Wholesale, a nationwide provider of wholesale network transport services, and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), representing more than 750 broadband and pay-TV providers serving all 50 states, today announced the completion of a…
Nokia Bell researchers have set the world record for the highest single carrier bit rate fiber transmission at 1.52 Terabits per second (Tbps) over 80 km of standard single mode fiber, according to the company. That speed is the equivalent…
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…
Windstream Wholesale today became the first national service provider built into Virginia Beach, Va., an international subsea cable landing station, and is taking orders out of the new Globalinx Data Center, the company announced. Telecompetitor earlier reported that the company…
Windstream Wholesale says that it has executed the largest agreement in its history for core transport. The client was termed “a major hyperscale” entity but was not identified in the press release. The capacity will enable the client to interconnect…
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…
September 24, 2019 — LA MIRADA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–An agreement between CENIC and Link Oregon establishes a unique regional partnership that allows both organizations to share resources and expertise in providing extended fiber broadband network capabilities and services to research, education, and other public-service organizations across…
The National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), which represents more than 750 small, primarily rural broadband providers, has announced a program aimed at reducing members’ transport costs. Through the program, dubbed NCTC Broadband Solutions – Access Program, NCTC will negotiate master…
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