CenturyLink Wins U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Carrier Excellence Award

MONROE, La., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) was presented today with the 2012 U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Carrier Excellence Award for Brand from telecommunications research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM. ATLANTIC-ACM surveyed hundreds of domestic long haul wholesale customers in its annual U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Report Card to determine Carrier Excellence award winners.  READ MORE

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Metro Ethernet - Northern Virginia - OvaTek Technologies Seeing Surge In Metro Ethernet Services

OvaTek Technologies seeing surge in Metro Ethernet services.  "We acknowledge the many benefits of Ethernet.  Scalability and cost savings are major drivers according to our clients.  For many years TDM and SONET services have been the main technologies when it comes to business class internet services.  With the explosion of Ethernet we are seeing it take off in the Metro, Long-Haul and IP Transit markets.", Principal Consultant and Founder of OvaTek Peter S. Gerardi says. READ MORE

MPLS Service - OvaTek Technologies - Embraces Level 3 MPLS

OvaTek Technologies embraces Level 3 MPLS. How effectively you collaborate, run daily operations and get work done keeps you competitive. Level 3 Communications delivers personalized, enterprise-class metro and wide-area network services over a private, dedicated Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) infrastructure to help you keep that competitive advantage. The Level 3 MPLS network is physically separate from their public Internet backbone, which gives them a foundation to run any.....READ MORE

Web could vanish for hordes of people in July, FBI warns

The FBI is warning that hundreds of thousands of people could lose their Internet connections come July, unless they take steps to diagnose and disinfect their computers.

The problem is related to malware called DNSChanger that was first discovered way back in 2007 and that has infected millions of computers worldwide.

In simple terms, when you type.....READ MORE

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OvaTek, formerly NXGN Solutions was founded on the idea that the purchase, implementation and ongoing service of Telecommunications and Cloud services should not be a painful experience. Let our professional consultants with years of frontline industry experience work on your behalf to deliver the truly best, most cost effecient solutions the industry has to offer. OvaTek helps Small, Medium and Enterprise customers transform.....READ MORE

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Windstream: A Compelling Buy At Current Levels

The telecommunications industry is a highly competitive industry that has many participants but is comprised of three main players. AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), and Sprint-Nextel (S) account for approximately 30% of the revenue that is generated in that industry. There are many other smaller regional players that are aggressively competing in the telecom space. Some are......READ MORE

Super-Secret Google Builds Servers in the Dark

Just how far will Google go to hide its custom-built data-center hardware from the rest of the world?

In one Silicon Valley data center, the company is apparently so paranoid about competitors catching a glimpse of its gear, it’s been known to keep its server cages in complete darkness, outfitting its technical staff like miners and sending them spelunking into the cages with lights on their heads.

“Many [companies] try to keep things covered up. There’s a lot of valuable intellectual property in here,” says Chris Sharp, general manager of content and cloud at Equinix, as he walks through the company’s data center. “But we were always amazed by Google........READ MORE

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The next evolution of the Internet: The Shared Web

The past decade has seen a massive evolution of the Internet. The early years focused on the Information Web, allowing users to access enormous volumes of data. The Commerce Web followed, giving consumers the ability to transact online. YouTube and Twitter ushered in the Broadcast Web, turning individuals into self-publishers. And today we have the Shared Web, the next iteration that promises to usher in just as much innovation and change.

The Shared Web leverages all of the components of the previous layers but also for the first time provides the ability to deliver real-time.......READ MORE

Alcatel-Lucent Matches Ciena’s 400G Chip

It seems that equipment manufacturers are thinking along similar lines right now, and what they’re thinking is that 100G is today’s killer technology and tomorrow’s buggy whip. At OFC/NFOEC today Alcatel-Lucent is unveiling a 400Gbps Photonic Service Engine chip aimed first at improving the company’s 100G products but eventually at offering 400G wavelengths.

The PSE matches much of what Ciena announced late last week, although Alcatel-Lucent’s seems to go farther while Ciena’s seems to emphasize.....READ MORE

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NXGN Solutions (Click Here) was founded on the idea that the purchase, implementation and ongoing service of Telecommunications and Cloud services should not be a painful experience. Let our professional consultants with years of frontline industry experience work on your behalf to deliver the truly best, most cost effecient solutions the industry has to offer. NXGN helps Small, Medium and Enterprise customers transform business technology and telecom landscapes. We work to deliver best in class Internet, MPLS-VPN, Private Lines, Transport, Colocation, Disaster Recovery.....READ MORE

EarthLink Business serves up new IT service offering Read more: EarthLink Business serves up new IT service offering

EarthLink's (Nasdaq: ELNK) launch of its IT service suite is another example of how it's continuing down the path of becoming more of a solutions provider.

The IT service suite, which follows the introduction of its Complete business service offering (voice, data and Internet solutions), is centered on helping business customers "streamline" their IT functions and security services by having EarthLink offer them in a hosted fashion via their data center.

Under the new IT service umbrella are.......READ MORE

UPDATED: tw telecom maintains focus on organic fiber network growth

tw telecom (Nasdaq: TWTC), unlike many of its competitive service provider counterparts isn't anxious to make a big acquisition anytime soon. Instead, the competitive service provider would rather invest its capital in building out its own fiber network to more buildings to deliver Ethernet and related IP services to its growing large business customer base.

Speaking at the Deutsche Bank 2012 Media & Telecom Conference, tw telecom outlined how it is organically building a profitable business. A key point....READ MORE

Verizon expands 100 Gb/s routing to metro edge networks

Verizon this week said it plans to deploy 100 Gb/s Cisco CRS-300 routers in seven metro markets—a move the carrier said was driven by increased demand for video, mobile and cloud services. The markets involved include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle.

The move marks the first time Verizon deployed 100 Gb/s routers at the network edge, although the carrier previously has deployed 100 Gb/s routers in its core network (CP: Verizon expects better economics, lower latency with.....READ MORE

Alcatel-Lucent extends 100G reach

Alcatel-Lucent today introduced a new “premium” card, dubbed the 100G eXtended Reach (XR) which boosts the distance over which operators can deliver 100G service from 1500 km to 2000 km and beyond.

It may not seem like much of an advance, but since the card plugs into ALU’s existing 1830 Photonic Service Switch it should hold straightforward appeal to carriers that need that extra distance – not only in point-to-point configurations but supporting more advanced.....READ MORE