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CenturyLink consumer revenue up in Q1, includes Carrier Ethernet
Explore FierceTelecom (May 9 2013)
Driven by strong sales of MPLS and Ethernet services to enterprise and government customers, strategic business revenues were $615 million, up 6.4 percent year-over-year. Complementing its growing fiber-based Ethernet footprint, CenturyLink continued to expand its Ethernet over Copper (EoC) footprint to over 3,300 COs (central offices).
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Mentions: Qwest CenturyLink
tw telecom is prime acquisition target, says Corvex's Meister
Explore FierceTelecom (May 8 2013)
tw telecom's shares jumped 7.2 percent to $29.12 on Wednesday afternoon after being cited by Keith Meister, founder and managing partner of New York-based Corvex, as a prime acquisition target. Meister said during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York that Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) or Verizon (NYSE: VZ) could be prime suitors for tw telecom, which has established itself as one of the largest domestic Ethernet and VPN service players.
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Seattle’s “Green” Bullitt Center Taps Integra For Cloud-Based Ethernet Services
Explore CEN Feature (May 2 2013)
The owners of Seattle’s new six-story, 50,000 sq. ft. Bullitt Center, which is designed to generate as much electricity as it consumes, and harvest rainwater for its water needs, has selected Integra to meet its communications needs.
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CenturyLink launches 1 Gbps fiber pilot in Omaha
Explore FierceTelecom (May 1 2013)
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is providing its own answer to Google Fiber's (Nasdaq: GOOG) last-mile fiber vision by launching a 1 Gbps-capable fiber to the premises (FTTP) pilot deployment that will serve 48,000 homes and businesses in Omaha, Neb. Eligible customers will be able to get a direct connection to its recently upgraded 100G global backbone network, which was built to deal with the deluge of new consumer and business traffic such as Ethernet and video streaming.
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Mentions: Oracle Qwest CenturyLink
Verizon CTO: Future Services Will be Based on Four Key Platforms
Explore Telecompetitor (Apr 30 2013)
Verizon CTO: Future Services Will be Based on Four Key Platforms Future Verizon services will be built on one of four “foundational platforms,” said Verizon Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone, addressing attendees at Genband Perspectives13 in Orlando today. Those four platforms, he said, include the company’s 4G LTE network, FiOS, data centers operated under the Terremark name and the company’s IP backbone.
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Mentions: Joan Engebretson
CenturyLink takes over DoD's $750 million DREN III networking contract
Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 24 2013)
CenturyLink ( NYSE: CTL ) struck another major coup in the public sector service market by being awarded the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) III contract, unseating incumbent provider Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ). DREN III is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DoD HPCMP). The HPCMP was designed to solve complicated and time ...
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Verizon business service declines, but Carrier Ethernet grows
Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 18 2013)
In Business and Wholesale: Verizon's business revenues declined 2.6 percent year-over-year to $3.8 billion due to expected declines in legacy voice and data service transport, in addition to CPE sales. However, it reported that global strategic enterprise services such as cloud, managed services, and Carrier Ethernet grew 6 percent.
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Frontier Continues Carrier Ethernet Build Out Across Eastern Region
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 18 2013)
Frontier Communications recently announced it had made a total of more than $123.6 million in enhancements to its network in the state of New York during 2012. A portion of that money went toward beefing up Frontier’s 10G Ethernet Ring Protection Switching topology and expanding Metro Ethernet and other data services across its serving area in the state, said Ken Arndt, area president of Frontier’s East Region.
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Mentions: Frontier Communications Frontier
Sprint targets enterprises with MPLS, managed cloud bundle
Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 17 2013)
Sprint (NYSE: S) has begun offering its large business customers a new bundled service package that includes managed networking, MPLS transport, and CPE that it says will provide greater simplicity and better visibility into their networks.Last year, it increased its investment in its wireline business by 53 percent with a particular focus on its MPLS network and Carrier Ethernet by establishing E-NNI (external-network to network interconnection) agreements with other carrier partners.
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Carrier Ethernet Helps Fuel Growth for Interxion Data Centers, Lures Sprint
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 16 2013)
Today’s announcement that Sprint has decided to establish a Carrier Ethernet point of presence in a Madrid data center operated by Interxion might initially appear to be no big deal – but what makes it notable is that it involves an investment in Spain at a time when Europe is in the midst of an economic crisis.
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NTT, AT&T, Verizon topped 2012's revenue charts, says Infonetics
Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 11 2013)
NTT, AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), a new Infonetics report reveals, were the three dominant revenue generators in world's top 60 service providers. "NTT, which passed AT&T as the top revenue-generating service provider in 2011, remains the number-one service provider in the world in terms of revenue and capital expenditures, and in 2012 it became the leader in terms of operating expenses as well," said Maria Zeppetella, market analyst manager at Infonetics Research and lead analyst on the report.
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Mentions: NTT Infonetics
Gartner: AT&T gets high business marks, but faces new competition
Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 4 2013)
According to a Gartner report focused on the U.S. business services market, AT&T took home the highest product service rating for its wireline business service product suite. In its new "Critical Capabilities for U.S. Wireline Telecom Services" report, which evaluated eight service providers, the research firm evaluated seven key areas of critical capabilities: MPLS services, SIP trunking, dedicated Internet, metro private line, managed broadband, Ethernet WAN, and managed routers.
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Australia’s AAPT Launches 80 Gbps Carrier Ethernet over Copper
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 2 2013)
Australian competitive carrier AAPT recently expanded its data offerings to include mid-band Carrier Ethernet service at 80 Mbps using eight pairs of copper phone wiring. The company expects the move to open up opportunities to connect branch offices for companies that previously were only able to use Carrier Ethernet for their headquarter locations.
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Mentions: Telstra
CenturyLink, Windstream dominate the ILEC Ethernet services ecosystem
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 27 2013)
Being incumbent carriers, the pair continues to face economic pressures and ongoing revenue issues as more of their customers migrate off legacy ATM and Frame Relay services to Ethernet. What's most exciting about the ILEC realm is the growing presence of CenturyLink and Windstream--two telcos that are arguably seeing the fastest growth in Ethernet and the overall business services market.
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CenturyLink's Poll: We're ready to put 100G at the edge
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 25 2013)
By bringing those together, we're exclusively using 100 Gig types of technologies and then we have organic demands in the cities where we are an incumbent provider of services such as Internet and Ethernet.
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Mentions: Qwest CenturyLink
FairPoint Breaks Out of its Footprint with Extended Connect
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 19 2013)
A new wholesale Carrier Ethernet offering from FairPoint Communications enables the company to provide connections to end users who require connectivity to locations outside the company’s local service territory. To support the new offering, FairPoint has established a connection from its northern New England network to One Summer Street, a popular carrier meeting point in Boston.
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CenturyLink VP Shares Rationale for 100G Network Upgrade
Explore Telecompetitor (Mar 18 2013)
CenturyLink VP Shares Rationale for 100G Network Upgrade Data center connectivity requirements and burgeoning residential broadband traffic are driving CenturyLink’s 100G packet optical network expansion announced today. “Deploying 10G has become too much work,” said Pieter Poll, CenturyLink senior vice president of national and international network planning, engineering and construction, in an...
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Mentions: Joan Engebretson
EoC takes center stage at COMPTEL Spring 2013
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 11 2013)
Ethernet over Copper (EoC) is the talk of the town at this year's Spring COMPTEL event, and FierceTelecom is addressing this service trend in its latest special report, EoC makes a new dent in the Ethernet market . In this report, we look at how ILECs and CLECs are delivering EoC to business customers they can't reach with fiber yet. A number of the large ILECs, particularly CenturyLink ...
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Mentions: NuVox Telecommunications Industry Association MegaPath
EoC makes a new dent in Ethernet market
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 11 2013)
Despite the allure of fiber-based Ethernet, the reality is that no service provider—even a large one—can justify bringing a fiber connection to every building in its footprint. (Image source: iStockPhoto) Enter Ethernet over Copper, or EoC. With this method of delivering Ethernet over existing copper wiring, a service provider can deliver higher speeds, ranging from 2-100 Mbps ...
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Mentions: Qwest
CenturyLink, Windstream rise in Carrier Ethernet market
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 4 2013)
U.S. incumbent telcos have taken charge of the U.S. retail Ethernet market as they continue to expand their respective portfolios and footprints to serve their SMB and enterprise customers, but they all face a challenging economic reality that's slowed revenue growth.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group NuVox Qwest
Verizon VP Mark Heinold on the ‘bidirectional’ relationship with world carriers
Explore Global Telecoms Business (Feb 17 2013)
Verizon looks after not just the carriers that want to use his network to reach their customers, but those Verizon needs for its last-mile connections for enterprises. "There are a lot of new network-to-network interfaces that we are implementing — for MPLS, ethernet and wireless. It’s a whole different world,” says Mark Heinold, the executive who has spent just over a year uniting the operations as vice president of carrier management in the company’s global wholesale division.
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CTO, Zain: “Data growth is the biggest challenge in today’s market”
Explore Telecoms.com (Jan 21 2013)
In the past year the major step for Zain was the introduction of HSPA+, which delivered a significant speed boost for customers with compatible devices. With an eye on continuing evolution we have also begun some LTE trials. On the fixed line side we have started rolling out Ethernet-to-the-Home (ETTH) and Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH).
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Mentions: Telefónica
Verizon broadens Terremark's cloud service reach
Explore FierceTelecom (Jan 17 2013)
Despite the fact that global business revenues declined 3.6 percent year-over-year to $3.8 billion in Q3 2012, cloud and Carrier Ethernet services rose 4.4 percent over Q3 2011.
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Spectrotel Touts Resale Approach to Carrier Ethernet Services
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 15 2013)
Spectrotel, which has been reselling TDM-based voice and data services since the mid-1990s, added Carrier Ethernet offerings in 2012. After launching Ethernet private line (EPL) and transparent LAN service early in the year, the company in December added dedicated Internet access based on Ethernet over fiber.
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laurabicom » CLECs to ILECs: Don't hang up your copper networks!
Good article, thanks for posting. We also have an article on CLEC: http://blog.bicomsystems.com/clec
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I also had the honor to participate in the Conference. I spoke on the topic ...
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