Wireline news from across the web:
@FierceTelecom RT via @Telexplainer: Why and how companies are merging their voice, video and data networks to a single common standard. Article | Follow @FierceTelecom
> UNSi has expanded its Dallas, Denver and St. Louis PoPs into full border gateway interconnects, meaning each facility can now support a mix of MPLS, VPLS, DIA and Carrier Ethernet services. Article
> Rose Hauser, FairPoint's executive vice president and chief information officer, will speak at the CTO Telecom Summit, Sept. 16-18, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Release
> The General Services Administration, according to a FierceGovernmentIT article, plans to restructure information technology oversight and responsibilities to be centralized under its headquarters chief information officer. Article
> Vodafone New Zealand has to pay almost NZD1.5 million (USD1.2 million) in fines for making 21 breaches of the Fair Trading Act. Article
And finally … GoDaddy said that the outage it suffered this week was not because of a DDoS attack. Article