Networking News

Zayo Enterprise Networks launches fiber-to-the-enterprise initiative in Denver

MARCH 10, 2010 - Zayo Enterprise Networks, a fiber-based communications provider, is adding 100 miles of new fiber routes in Denver to interconnect high-bandwidth enterprises and provide dedicated...

SPW&L Telecom upgrades municipal fiber-optic network with Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery platforms

MARCH 10, 2010 - Ciena Corp. announced that Sun Prairie Water & Light (SPW&L), a municipal utility company based in Sun Prairie, Wis., has deployed its Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery...

Global Crossing upgrades capacity on MAC, SAC, and PAC submarine networks

MARCH 9, 2010 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC) will significantly expand capacity on its Mid-Atlantic Crossing (MAC), South American Crossing (SAC), and Pan American Crossing (PAC) undersea...

Budapest Internet Exchange selects Force10 Networks for network

MARCH 9, 2010 -- Force10 Networks Inc. says that the Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX) has selected the E-Series switch/routers to provide highly reliable performance and scalability for its growing...

AldeaVision Solutions expands international video network with Net Insight's Nimbra platform

MARCH 9, 2010 -- Net Insight says that AldeaVision Solutions Inc, a provider of international video broadcast transmission services in North America and Latin America with facilities throughout...

Oi’s GlobeNet and Alcatel-Lucent complete submarine network upgrade

MARCH 9, 2010 -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and GlobeNet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (Bovespa: TNLP3, TNLP4, TMAR3, TMAR5, TMAR6 and NYSE: TNE), say they have completed the...

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...

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...

AT&T, Opnext, Cisco demonstrate 127-Gbps transmission with live traffic

MARCH 9, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- AT&T has seen yesterday’s Verizon 100-Gbps trial and raised it 27 Gbps with a trial of live traffic at 127 Gbps. The extra 27 Gbps represents the...

Vitelity selects XO Communications to provide expanded, upgraded 10 Gig IP backbones

MARCH 8, 2010 -- XO Communications has been selected by Vitelity, one of the nation’s largest VoIP network providers with more than 10,000 wholesale customers in 50 states, to provide...