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AT&T wireline union workers object in California, Nevada
AT&T's (NYSE: T) ongoing negotiations with their wireline union workforce took a turn late last week when thousands of employees in their California and Nevada regions walked off the job in a one-day protest.
2012-06-12
Telecom New Zealand sets wholesale agreement with Northpower Fibre
Telecom New Zealand (NYSE: NZT) will soon be able to deliver fiber-based broadband services to the Whangarei region Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative by signing a wholesale agreement with Northpower Fibre.
2012-06-12
Verizon to deploy PTX of Juniper for its converged MPLS core network
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is taking another step in its next-gen technology evolution with plans to deploy Juniper's (NYSE: JNPR) new PTX Series, a move that will enable them to collapse all of its disparate MPLS-based networks onto a common core network.
2012-06-12
Senior citizens' Internet use continues to grow from Pew Research
Greater numbers of senior citizens are finding the Internet is a useful tool, with over half of Americans 65 and older going online, according to the Pew Research Center.
2012-06-11
Hibernia Atlantic offers connectivity for LuxConnect
Transatlantic connectivity provider Hibernia Atlantic has partnered with LuxConnect, a data center and network operator based in Luxembourg. The partnership will enable each company to expand its global footprint and secure connectivity throughout key European and US cities including Luxembourg City, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Dublin, and New York.
2012-06-11
The OIF addresses speed, security & control plane management
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has been busy: Over the last month it approved two new Implementation Agreements (IAs), published two new whitepapers and completed interoperability testing. Carried out by the Physical and Link Layer and Networking Working Groups, the program has addressed a variety of technologies including speed, cooling, security, and control plane management.
2012-06-11
PacketLight Networks provides metro & long-haul 100G muxponder/transponder
PacketLight Networks says it now offers the first standards-based, 1RU 100G muxponder/transponder for metro and long-haul applications. The OIF-compliant PL-1000GM/GT aggregates multirate and multiprotocol 10G and 40G services into a 100G OTU4 uplink trunk.
2012-06-11
Sidera Networks taps into Latin America low latency opportunity by Seaborn agreement
Sidera Networks is tapping into the Latin American telecom industry by establishing a long-term agreement on Seaborn's U.S.-Brazil Sebras-1 submarine cable system.
2012-06-11
Cable&Wireless adds 100 Gbps to Hong Kong & Singapore nets
Cable&Wireless Worldwide, whose addition of 100-Gbps to certain European routes was announced last month, has added similar capabilities to metro networks in Hong Kong and Singapore. As with the European deployment, Cable&Wireless will leverage Ciena Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CIEN) 6500 Packet-Optical Platform.
2012-06-07
Farmers Mutual Telephone delivers cell-site backhaul services by ADTRAN Optical Networking Edge
ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) says that Farmers Mutual Telephone Co. (FMTC) in Northwest Ohio will use the systems provider’s Optical Networking Edge (ONE) technology to supply wireless services and cell-site backhaul for Tier 1 mobile operators.
2012-06-07