Windstream Wholesale intends to transform its core optical network infrastructure using Infinera equipment. The pair intend to introduce new Node-on-a-Blade technology in Windstream’s network. The move fits in nicely with Windstream’s previously announced Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) initiative. ICON…
AT&T said today that it has made a deal with Frontier that calls for Frontier to bring fiber to large enterprise customers outside AT&T’s current footprint and to support AT&T’s 5G mobility network. Spokespeople for AT&T and Frontier confirmed that…
Kinetic Wholesale by Windstream says that it added fiber to 354 macro tower sites during the second quarter of the year. Kinetic Wholesale, which is a business unit of Windstream, operates in 18 states. It is in the midst of…
Windstream Wholesale’s Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) service, announced yesterday, will offer wholesale customers the ability to establish custom optical transport network (OTN) routes and extend their networks closer to the edge. Telecompetitor talked with Art Nichols, Windstream vice president…
Facebook said today that it will build a fiber network in Indiana to interconnect some of its data centers. The company also noted that it will make capacity on that network available to communications service providers. Where possible, Facebook purchases…
Windstream announced the addition of 60K wholesale fiber locations across its 18 state footprint. The additional wholesale access locations became available during the first quarter of 2021. These new Windstream wholesale fiber locations are available in exchanges where Windstream is…
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…
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…
Bluebird Networks, operator of a fiber network spanning several Midwestern states, said it has signed an agreement to purchase Illinois Network Alliance, which operates a network in that state. INA is owned by several smaller Illinois telecom service providers. Bluebird…
FirstLight, a regional fiber network operator serving the northeastern U.S., has acquired ColoSpace, a provider of IT services, cloud services and disaster recovery in New England. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ColoSpace is almost 20 years old, according…
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