Carrier Case Study
Verizon gains efficiences through packet optical networking
(Editor's note: This article is also included in FierceTelecom's new eBook called Packet Optical Networking Platforms: Maintaining the legacy, next-gen balance. Click here to get your free copy... Read more >>
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Growing demand from enterprise and service provider customers for more IP and Ethernet transport has prompted Global Crossing to expand the capacity on three of its Mid-Atlantic Crossing (MAC), South... Read more >>
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Frontier's ambition to become one of the largest independent service providers through acquiring Verizon's rural lines hit a snag this week when an administrative judge in Illinois ruled that its... Read more >>
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AT&T's completion of its 100 Gbps backbone trial is another indicator that large service providers are realizing they need more horsepower to sate the seemingly endless appetite for wired and... Read more >>
Qwest plugs more Arizona regions into VDSL2-based FTTN
Qwest has been hard at work lately in expanding the availability of its FTTN-based service in its respective local service territories, and its latest deployments in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ areas... Read more >>
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Industry Voices
What's a Telco to do?
By Keith Willetts, Chairman and CEO, TM Forum If you're a communications service provider (CSP) trying to make it in today's world, no one has to tell you it isn't easy. Just a couple of decades ago,... Read more >>
Special Report
Sizing up the top three U.S. ILECs in Q4 09
This report charts the performance of the top three largest wireline ILECs, including metrics such as access line loss, broadband and video additions. And take a look at how these figures stand up... Read more >>
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