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Verizon Business 40 Gbps net goes live
It's less than halfway to the exalted 100 Gbps threshold, but Verizon Business has gone live on at least two major network routes with 40 Gbps capacity, essentially quadrupling its previous backbone
ICANN quickens country domain handling
Under pressure from the international Internet community at this week's Internet Governance Forum meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said it will
Telco immunity decision looms
The Senate Judiciary Committee reportedly is finally considering the telco immunity provision as part of new surveillance legislation, with a committee vote likely sometime today. This news comes
Microsoft helps Comcast with SMBs
Cable TV giant Comcast has about 250,000 small and medium-sized business customers, but perhaps as many as 5 million within its network footprint. The company is teaming with Microsoft on a new SMB
House OKs broadband mapping change
The House of Representatives this week approved the Broadband Census of America Act, which does away with the Federal Communications Commission antiquated and inaccurate method of calculating
Hot Metric: Switch spending hits $2.9 billion
Ovum RHK reported that sales of packet switches and routing gear grew about 26% in the third quarter, compared to last year's third quarter, and reached about $2.9 billion overall. The report is a
SPOTLIGHT: ADVA eyes Tier 1 market advance
ADVA Optical Networking, an equipment vendor based in Munich, Germany, is challenging long-standing tradition and possibly current conventional wisdom by targeting top-tier U.S. carriers. The
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VeriSign looks to unload telecom assets
VeriSign reportedly is planning to sell many of its telecom assets to focus on its traditional core businesses of Internet domain handling and secure transaction processing. Earlier in this decade,
Critics attack EU telecom plan
One day after European Union Telecom Commissioner Viviane Reding formally unveiled her proposal for a pan-continental European Telecom Market Authority, other European national regulators (who stand
FCC, cable TV debate "70/70"
The National Cable TV Association is disputing the Federal Communications Commission's assertion the cable TV industry has passed the "70/70" threshold, which refers to networks passing 70% of U.S.
Oracle makes another OSS move
Following its acquisition of MetaSolv and other efforts to expand into telecom operational support system activities (including what now appears to be the near-but-not-quite acquisition of BEA
Report: AT&T to extend monitoring to SMBs
According to a report in The New York Times, AT&T is planning to extend its remote monitoring security capabilities into the small and medium-sized business market. the tools would allow and SMB
SP Spotlight: Grande rides bandwidth river
Who: Grande Communications Vitals: This broadband service provider, based in San Marcos, Tex., will turn eight years old next month. It was an early player in triple play services based on DSL and
SPOTLIGHT: UBS bearish on U.S broadband
Is the U.S. broadband market half-full or almost empty of future growth? UBS AG analyst John Hodulik noted this week something which several other researchers have noted: The U.S. broadband market
ICANN control an issue at 'Net event
The annual Internet Governance Forum conference has convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and once again the hot topic of discussion is the disproportionate amount of control U.S. based firms
Orange makes FMC bear fruit
France Telecom's Orange reported that by the end of September, it had sold 468,000 dual-mode handsets in support of its Unik fixed-mobile converged service. The carrier continues to set the standard
XO loss lower, sales up slightly
XO Holdings reported third-quarter earnings that showed a loss of less than $4.5 million, about five-times less than its loss for the same quarter last year. Revenue was up only slightly, about 2%,
