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Digital Life could of AT&T make its wireline broadband base even stickier
AT&T's (NYSE: T) recent launch of its Digital Life home control and monitoring service illustrates the telco's need to generate new wireline and wireless revenue streams.
2012-05-15
Overture improves European & APAC sales teams with four new regional offices
Overture's appointment of new sales leads to oversee four key EMEA-APAC regions--including India, Italy, Malaysia and Russia--instantly gives the vendor locally-based support to serve new growth opportunities outside of North America, the company said Tuesday.
2012-05-15
Verizon, AT&T: PSTN-to-IP migration must be done with care
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are clearly two service providers making a migration away from the PSTN to all IP, but the move has to carefully take into account a number of key technical, business and operational issues.
2012-05-15
Epsilon Telecommunications extends London metro capacity with BTI Systems gear
Network services provider Epsilon Telecommunications is expanding the capacity and reach of its London metro footprint with new platforms from BTI Systems. The upgrade focuses on the backbone portion of its network and involves the deployment of additional packetVX 24/4 (PVX 24/4) systems as well as BTI’s new PVX 80 systems, both part of BTI’s 7000 Series packet-optical transport product line.
2012-05-14
Khabarovsk, Russia selects Transmode to connect data centers
Packet-optical networking supplier Transmode Systems AB says the regional government of Khabarovsk, Russia, has maximized the interconnection capacity between its data centers using Transmode's TM-Series Intelligent WDM (iWDM) optical platform. The deployment will provide e-government services for the businesses and 1.4 million population of the Khabarovsk region in the far east of Russia.
2012-05-14
TeliaSonera to offer optical network for Facebook in Europe
TeliaSonera International Carrier, a subsidiary of Swedish telecoms operator TeliaSonera, says it will build and operate a new pan-European managed optical network for social networking giant Facebook.
2012-05-14
TELE Greenland, Eastlink, Hibernia Atlantic consider Icelandic low-latency route
TELE Greenland, Eastlink, and Hibernia Atlantic have revealed their plans for a low latency network connection between New York City and Landeyajasandur, Iceland. The proposed route would combine TELE Greenland’s Greenland Connect cable, network facilities owned and operated in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by Eastlink; and Hibernia Atlantic links from Halifax to New York. The result could remove up to 1100 km from the existing path between the two points, which would significantly lower latency, the three operators say.
2012-05-14
Sidera Networks launches Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network expansion
Fiber-optic network services provider Sidera Networks says it can now offer low-latency connections via its Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network from the New York Metro market to Toronto and London. The new low-latency routes offer diversity from Sidera’s existing routes to Toronto and London.
2012-05-14
Huawei applies CloudEngine switches to make enterprise network mark
Huawei has made an aggressive move in the enterprise data center space with the introduction of the CloudEngine series of switches. The company touts the CloudEngine switches as possessing the largest single-frame switching capacity -- up to 48 Tbits.
2012-05-13
Tata Communications anchor tenant on Seabras-1 U.S.-Brazil cable system
Tata Communications (NYSE: TCL) and Seaborn Networks have announced that Tata will be an anchor tenant on Seaborn’s planned submarine cable between the United States and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The undersea cable system, Seabras-1, will enable Tata Communications to provide fully integrated network services from Brazil to its networks in the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, and India.
2012-05-13