Telecom Exchange (TEX) NYC, is right around the corner! Mark your calendar for May 14-15th at The W Hoboken. Join other industry thought leaders in one room as we discuss the challenges and opportunities facing data centers, telecom providers, tech and finance companies, and set the agenda for action in the next twelve months ahead. Our [...]
Lightower Fiber Networks just expanded its all-fiber network throughout Staten Island. The expansion will serve hundreds of new locations in the borough and also creates a new, shorter path around Manhattan from New Jersey to points north and east of New York. Avoiding Manhattan entirely, this new shorter route is perfect for businesses wanting to reduce [...]
DE-CIX New York, a carrier- and data center-neutral Internet exchange distributed across major carrier hotels and data centers throughout the New York/New Jersey metro, has won the Capacity Metro Connect Awards 2014’s Judges’ Award. DE-CIX was chosen as the recipient of this award for the launch Andreas Sturm accepted the award for DE-CIX of [...]
DE-CIX announced today the completion of upgrades to the core infrastructure of its flagship DE-CIX Apollon platform. Fully online as of July 24, 2013, the new core deployment consists of four Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS switches and represents a major upgrade that now enables DE-CIX to offer advanced Ethernet-based services across a highly reliable architecture. The first [...]
Global Convergence Solutions, (GCS) a leading provider of next-generation OSS & BSS solutions, wants to help international carriers who are paying 50%, 60%, and 70% more than market rate for calls terminated in the US and receiving subpar traffic as a result. Although market rates for calls terminated in the US range anywhere from $0.005 to [...]
A recent article in the New York Times by Susan Crawford titled ‘How to Get High-Speed Internet to All Americans’ highlights the critical need for all Americans to have high-speed Internet access. Susan quotes President Obama’s address opening his second term that Americans need to act together to "build the roads and networks and research labs [...]
Lightower Fiber Networks will moderate a panel titled “Building a Wired Economy: Demand in Massachusetts” as part of the Massachusetts Broadband Summit. Lightower’s Chris Williams, Director of Complex Solutions, will moderate a panel of industry executives on Wednesday evening, November 14, 2012, at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Broadband Summit is organized [...]
The telecom industry will hold one of its big networking gatherings next week, as COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2012 gets underway in Dallas, October 7-10. Lightower Fiber Networks will be in attendance, discussing its all-fiber networking and access solutions with the carriers and suppliers onsite. “As a strong partner for the wholesale marketplace, Lightower offers partners a [...]
With the start of the Democratic National Convention, now is a perfect time to take a look at President Obama’s broadband Executive Order. This topic is exactly what Allied Fiber’s CEO, Hunter Newby covered in his latest article for Internet Telephony magazine. In an article titled ‘“We Can’t Wait”…For Dark Fiber’, Hunter takes a look at [...]
As a leading global network operator, it is crucial for GTT to expand its footprint network services in key US and international markets. Comprised of 28 counties and home to more than 5.3 million people and 145,000-plus private-sector firms, Metro Atlanta is one of these key markets for GTT. As such, the company sought a premier colocation [...]
Allied Fiber’s Hunter Newby Talks Challenges Faced by Metro Players Metro Connect Panel: Practical Challenges Facing Network Build-Outs Allied Fiber’s, CEO, Hunter Newby was among a distinguished group of industry thought leaders that discussed the challenges faced by metro players, specifically those fiber providers that are charged with filling the increasing demand through strategic build-outs. Other [...]
This article was originally posted by ConvergeDigest. The Metro Ethernet Forum introduced a set of "Carrier Ethernet 2.0" specifications aimed at revolutionizing the efficiency and usability of Ethernet service delivery through the addition of three standardized features: Multi-class-of-service (Multi-CoS), Interconnect and Manageability. Carrier Ethernet 2.0 is defined by its ability to deliver differentiated applications over interconnected, [...]
In Section 3 of the World Bank’s report on ‘The Role of Mobile Phones in Sustainable Rural Poverty Reduction’ statistics are provided on the impact mobile has on rural markets. The research in this report finds that fiber infrastructure directly relates to GDP growth, job creation, productivity, tax revenue as well as social benefits, such as [...]
Last Wednesday, Sidera Networks and Ciena hosted a webinar about the positive effects technology has on the healthcare industry. Today’s technology is significantly contributing to improvements in patient care – providing greater access to patient records, higher availability of applications and lower mortality rates in highly wired hospitals. The “Building Healthcare Networks that Solve Big Data [...]
There is no question at all about the positive effects technology has on the healthcare industry. The performance of the advanced technologies used within the healthcare industry is directly related to the capacity and resiliency of a healthcare provider’s network infrastructure. That being said, make it a point to join a community of healthcare providers, hospitals, [...]
