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Articles in category: Cloud
Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 23 2013)
The reality here is that organizations are just finding better ways to utilize the Wide Area Network. With more Ethernet Services becoming available every day — and better infrastructure components become available – many companies, both large and small, are find ways to deploy some part of their environment into the cloud
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Lightower Picks Razorsight's Cloud Financial Analytics Platform
Explore Billing and OSS World (Jul 23 2013)
Lightower specializes in delivering high performance, all-fiber networking solutions for today’s bandwidth-intensive applications and business needs. The company's services include Ethernet, Wavelengths, Dark Fiber, Internet Access, Video Transport, and Private Networks. Lightower owns and operates over 20,000 route miles of network providing access to over 7,500 service locations
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Global Capacity grows One Marketplace capacity
Explore Telecom Ramblings (Jul 19 2013)
Global Capacity continued to grow its One Marketplace national access offering by adding an additional 30Gbps of core bandwidth between its PoPs. The upgrade spans two diverse, interconnected national rings, giving them the underlying capacity to support growing demand. Last quarter they unveiled addtional Ethernet NNI capabilities to go with it, significantly boosting the types of connectivity available to customers.
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Southern Telecom extends dark fiber to Tower Cloud's Ga. wireless backhaul network
Explore FierceTelecom (Jul 11 2013)
Southern Telecom, the telecom subsidiary of power utility Southern Company, is leasing more dark fiber to help wireless backhaul specialist Tower Cloud increase network capacity in Florida and Georgia.
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iAreaNet taps Open Data Centers New Jersey facility
Explore Telecompaper (Jul 9 2013)
(Telecompaper) Carrier-neutral data centre operator in New Jersey and New York City, Open Data Centers has announced that its Piscataway, New Jersey data centre has been selected by iAreaNet to host its high availability, cloud-based offices services for businesses. The data centre also offers tenants direct connectivity to multiple dark fibre, Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), Ethernet over Copper (EoC), and metro Ethernet providers, as well as Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
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Alpheus extends cloud footprint via CyrusOne's data centers
Explore FierceTelecom (Jul 9 2013)
Alpheus, a growing Texas-based competitive telecom provider, has established a number of connections in CyrusOne's data centers in the state as a way to expand its cloud service reach. The expansion of its data center footprint complements its MPLS IP VPN and high-bandwidth fiber services, two methods that its customers already use for their cloud environments. Customers also have the option to use its Ethernet LAN (E-LAN) Layer 2 managed network service to connect all of their data and voice services.
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Mentions: Alpheus Communications
Masergy Marks Key Milestones and Growth Providing Ethernet, Managed Networking, Cloud Services Worldwide
Explore CEN Feature (Jun 20 2013)
Masergy, a Plano, TX-based global communications provider, has experienced very healthy growth over the past year and marked several key milestones. The achievement has been reached thanks to the company’s strategy to customize its services to meet the needs of individual customers and their applications, said John Dumbleton, senior vice president of business development for Masergy.
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Verizon brings Private IP service to Equinix data centers
Explore FierceTelecom (Jun 14 2013)
Verizon is extending its Private IP service to Equinix's International Business Exchange data centers worldwide to accommodate the growth of cloud computing and software-as-a-service applications. One of the value-added capabilities Verizon can bring to the table will be 100 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities it recently added to the Private IP service.
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tw telecom Starts to Fire Up Constellation For CoreSite
Explore Telecom Ramblings (Jun 10 2013)
Three months after unveiling their Constellation project for 2013, TW Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC, news, filings) is preparing to fire it up, at least in prototype form. And along the way, they’ll be providing dynamic Carrier Ethernet connectivity to CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange. … [visit site to read more]
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Verizon Rolls Out 100G And Standardized 1G, 10G Ethernet Access To Its Private IP Service
Explore CEN Feature (Jun 6 2013)
Verizon recently began offering its enterprise customers simpler and speedier Ethernet access options to connect with its Private IP Service. The new choices include off-the-shelf 1G Ethernet access throughout Verizon’s global footprint and standardized 10G connections in key cities, said Ihab Tarazi, vice president of product technology for Verizon.
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Metcalfe Discusses What’s Next for Carrier Ethernet
Explore CEN Feature (Jun 4 2013)
Bob Metcalfe, who helped invent Ethernet 40 years ago, has said that at that time he never envisioned the technology “escaping the building.” But now that it has, Metcalfe has helped spread the word about carrier implementations of the technology through his work with the Metro Ethernet Forum. CEN caught up with Metcalfe last week to ask him about what’s next for Carrier Ethernet.
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Mentions: University of Texas Metro Ethernet Forum
As Ethernet turns 40, some seek to take it to the cloud
Explore news.techworld.com (May 23 2013)
As Ethernet marks its 40th birthday this week, some of those celebrating will also be looking ahead to yet another use for the nearly ubiquitous technology: the cloud.
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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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Ethernet’s growing role: From the ground to the cloud
Explore Tata Communications New World (Apr 24 2013)
Camille Mendler from Informa Telecoms & Media (@Informatm) shares her thoughts in a video blog. Camille talks about growth drivers in the ICT space, what’s revving up the numbers in the revenue streams, changing dynamics of business needs and the opportunities in its wake.
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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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Get an edge on SDN
Explore Business Cloud 9 (Mar 19 2013)
One of the strong Cloud technology trends to emerge over the last year or two is `software defined something’, with networks and datacentres being the two most prominent ones.
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Observations from Comptel PLUS Spring 2013 in Las Vegas this Week
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 14 2013)
COMPTEL PLUS, the annual gathering of competitive carriers and their ecosystem, took place this week in Las Vegas at the Aria Resort and Casino. As is usually the case at this well-orchestrated event, there were ample opportunities for networking and education on topics ranging from regulatory issues facing the carriers to Carrier Ethernet and Software Defined Networking. The following is a loose compilation of my observations and a few photos to spice things up a little.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum MegaPath Overture Networks
SDN and the Fast-Mover Advantage
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 12 2013)
Call it the brass ring of telecom: the ability to develop and roll out services that create revenue and market-differentiation opportunities, all in matter of days rather than months or quarters. Scratch that. Call it the difference between survival and marginalization for service providers and vendors alike.
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Meeting Cloud’s Demands
Explore CEN Feature (Feb 12 2013)
Cloud computing and communications services are all the rage with enterprises, but ultimately they’re only as good as the networks that connect them to their customers. “Right now, it’s the IT drivers that are moving things,” says Rosemary Cochran, principal and co-founder of Vertical Systems Group, a research firm. “But once the applications get moved to data centers, then the question is, what’s the connectivity supposed to look like?”
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GTT Buys IDC Global, Moves Into Cloud Services
Explore Telecom Ramblings (Feb 5 2013)
GTT made another inorganic move yesterday with the announcement that it has acquired Chicago’s IDC Global. Over the last few years, GTT has been busy transforming itself from a reseller into a network provider in its own right. The purchases of PacketExchange and nLayer gave them an IP/MPLS/Ethernet backbone, and they’ve been spending some capex to expand that footprint further in recent quarters.
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Ethernet in demand for mobile backhaul
Explore telecomsemea.net (Jan 28 2013)
Wholesale Carrier Ethernet revenues topped $1.2 billion (€892 million) worldwide last year. Wholesale carriers saw strong demand for Ethernet for mobile backhaul (tower/cell site access) and aggregation, and this trend will continue for the next few years. In Asia we are increasingly seeing ISPs buying high-speed Ethernet ports for IP-transit applications, and this revenue stream is expected to increase further in the coming years.(Read Full Article)
How Carrier Ethernet enables cloud connectivity
Explore FierceTelecom (Jan 22 2013)
Enterprise IT managers cite cloud computing as among their most important initiatives this year. Nearly two-thirds of them have already begun transitioning their business-critical applications to the cloud. A driving force is the exponential rise of big data that requires massive storage, virtualized computing and ready accessibility from anywhere in the world. Carrier Ethernet has emerged as a strategic technology for enabling cloud connectivity in this environment. Worldwide demand for business Ethernet services will reach $45.1 billion by 2016, based on Vertical Systems Group's projections.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group Quality of Service Metro Ethernet Forum
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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Fiber Merger Could Mean Faster Pipes for the Cloud
Explore Cloud Ecosystem (Jan 2 2013)
Late last week, the Boston private equity firm announced that it was spending $2 billon to buy out and merge two companies into one of the largest providers of Carrier Ethernet fiber connections.
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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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