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Virgin Media to trial ultra-fast broadband over telegraph poles

MARCH 11, 2010 -- Virgin Media announced a new trial using telegraph poles to deliver ultra-fast 50Mb broadband to the Berkshire village of Woolhampton. By connecting homes directly to Virgin...

Cox Business wins VITA telecommunications contract

MARCH 11, 2010 -- Cox Business won from the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) statewide contracts for Internet services in selected speed tiers and zip codes. The contract provides a...

Wall Township Public Schools switches to Optimum Lightpath

MARCH 9, 2010 -- Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), says that New Jersey-based Wall Township Public Schools has selected Optimum Lightpath as its...

Clearfield intros new WDM packaging

MARCH 9, 2010 -- Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD) has announced four application-specific WDM packaging alternatives to the industry standard package of discrete (unpackaged) and LGX style...

Cisco unveils CRS-3 Carrier Routing System

MARCH 9, 2010 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has unveiled the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) -- which, as its name implies, has three times the horsepower as its previous CRS-1 platform. Cisco...

New study: very high bandwidth networks will deliver huge return in jobs and GDP

MARCH 5, 2010 -- A $19 billion proposal to use tax-credit bonds to fund the deployment of competitive next-generation, high-speed networks to 80 percent of U.S. homes would create 200,000 jobs...

USDA announces 22 RUS BIP broadband stimulus grants

MARCH 4, 2010 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has selected 22 broadband infrastructure projects to provide rural residents in 18 states/territories access to improved economic and educational...

Deadline extended for BIP, BTOP broadband stimulus infrastructure hopefuls

MARCH 4, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- Potential applicants for the second round of broadband stimulus funding will receive more time to prepare their filings. Both the U.S. Department of...

NTIA rewards Level3, others, with broadband stimulus grants

MARCH 3, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- Level3 Communications became the first “name” carrier to receive broadband stimulus money to enhance it fiber-optic network. U.S. Commerce Secretary...

Transmode introduces 10-Gbps access solutions for high-capacity services

MARCH 2, 2010 -- Transmode announced the availability of two new access offerings for applications such as high-capacity data access networks in the financial and media industries or cloud...