In its largest network expansion, Zayo is upgrading its long haul dark fiber, 400G network and subsea routes worldwide. The investment will generate new and upgraded routes during the next 18 months. The new 400G routes are between: Dallas and…
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Comcast Engineer Repurposes Long Haul Gear for Local Access Network Insight
Through a corporate blog post, Comcast highlights an innovative use of an existing technology — reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) – that now greatly increases technicians’ visibility into local network traffic. ROADMs generally are used in long haul transport. A key…
Segra Adds Major Regional Transport Network Powered by Ciena
June 14, 2021 — CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Segra, one of the largest independent fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S., announced a major expansion of its best-in-class fiber network. The new Optical Express Core network is powered by Ciena’s 800G…
Bluebird Network to Expand Missouri Network
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…
Windstream Plans NCON National Converged Optical Network
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 Plots Path for 400G Core Transport
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…
Pandemic Accelerates Telstra U.S. Expansion
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…
Windstream Wholesale and NCTC Announce Network Transport Agreement
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 Labs Achieves 1.52 Tbps Fiber Transmission
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 Completes Springfield, MO Expansion
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 Starts Offering Service from Subsea Station, Continuing International Expansion
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 Signs its Largest Core Transport Deal
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…
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