The second phase of the Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) has been brought into commercial service by France Telecom-Orange and the other members of the LION2 consortium. The LION cable,...
Vermont Telephone Company is upgrading to a 100G optical transport network with Alcatel-Lucent. Using Broadband Stimulus funding, VTel is planning to boost its data transmission and broadband access network, enabling...
NBC Sports Group will use video processing solutions from Ericsson during its coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games from London, England July 27 - August 12, 2012. The equipment...
Dell is launching a Content Delivery Platform (CDP) that allows network providers to sell Content Delivery Network (CDN) services to the enterprise as well as manage the on-demand delivery of...
BT Retail has nearly doubled the downstream speed of its Infinity 2 broadband service to peak rates of 76 Mbps. The newly revamped service will also offer the UK’s fastest...
IBM unveiled its PureSystems architecture for combining all IT elements, both physical and virtual, into "expert integrated systems" with server, storage, and networking capabilities. IBM's PureSystems is the result of...
Researchers at NTT announced a breakthrough in the development of GaN-based thin-film devices from substrates, where an extremely thin layer of boron nitride (BN) is grown between a sapphire substrate...
Verizon Enterprise Solutions, as part of a General Dynamics-led team, has been awarded two contracts to develop and implement fixed and mobile cloud computing capacity for the U.S. Army under...
Microsoft has upgraded its flagship professional credential, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, for the cloud. The new Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) includes cloud training requirements that demonstrated to employers and...
CloudPassage, a start-up based in San Francisco, secured $14 million series B financing round, for its cloud security solution. CloudPassage said its key innovation is its Halo architecture, which automates...
CVC Capital Partners will acquire Hong Kong's City Telecom for HK$5 billion (US$644 million).
Optimum Lightpath, which is Cablevision's Ethernet-based business service for the New York metropolitan area, is supporting 1.485 GB linear uncompressed HD-SDI over dedicated wavelengths. The functionality is available footprint-wide, supporting...
CapeNet, which serves southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod, has chosen Ciena and Integration Partners to provide coherent optical transport and Carrier Ethernet solutions for the 350-mile fiber optic OpenCape Network....
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