Level 3 and Internet2 to Carry LHC Data Trans-Atlantic

Level 3 Communications and Internet2 will provide trans-Atlantic data transport from Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to more than 1,700 scientists at 94 institutions across the United States. Under a newly announced agreement, U.S. LHCNet, Internet2 and Level 3 will connect a major network hub in New York City to the LHC in Switzerland. This connection will link to the Internet2 national backbone, ESnet and many regional networks to make LHC...

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Sprint Establishes Partner Interexchange for Wholesale VoIP Customers

Sprint has established a Partner Interexchange Network (PIN) to provide business-to-business wholesale exchange of voice traffic. The Sprint PIN service sets up a community of partners who can directly exchange VoIP service between themselves while operating on Sprint's global Tier 1 IP network. Because there is a direct exchange between partners, access termination fees and LEC tandem fees can be lowered or eliminated.Sprint said its Partner Interexchange...

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BBN Announces $11.5M in NSF Funding for GENI

BBN Technologies has been awarded an $11.5 million National Science Foundation grant for 33 academic/industrial research teams to accelerate prototyping of a suite of infrastructure for the GENI project, which supports experimental research in network science and engineering.The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is envisioned as a national data communications laboratory, supporting experiments on a wide variety of advanced research...

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Ceragon Elaborates on Open Range Project With Alvarion

Commenting on its news announcement last week, Ceragon Networks confirmed that it has shipped 19 links of its high-capacity backhaul solution in collaboration with Alvarion for Open Range Communications' network deployment in rural America.In a press statement, Ceragon said it has become aware of a new evaluation process for backhaul network equipment for the Open Range network and regrets any confusion. http://www.ceragon....

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Siverge Unveils Wireless Universal Gateway Chip + FPGA

Siverge Networks, a start-up based in Herzliya, Israel, introduced its high-performance, Wireless Universal Gateway chip for next generation mobile backhauling infrastructures. The new SivGate chip, which extends Siverge's "Griffin" family of products, consists of an ASIC and an FPGA core. The chip is designed to replace the combination of framers, mappers, and complex processors currently used in most wireless gateways. Siverge's SivGate is compliant with required physical interfaces (Ethernet, PDH, SONET/SDH), as well as complete set of associated...

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Intellifiber Ethernet over Copper with Hatteras

Intellifiber Networks, which interconnects with major data, carrier and hosting facilities in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington DC, has enabled Ethernet over Copper (EoC) capability throughout its entire network. Intellifiber has more than 400 central offices directly connected to its fiber network, providing dense EoC coverage in markets from Norfolk to Philadelphia to Cleveland. Customers with multiple locations or a variety of end users can take advantage of Intellifiber's...

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Hatteras Networks Extends its Ethernet-over-Copper for Mobile Backhaul

Hatteras Networks unveiled a new modular, multi-service platform designed to enable carriers to offer business Ethernet services and mobile backhaul solutions using their existing copper infrastructure. The rollout includes a new central office platform, pseudowire capabilities that can be extended to base stations, and a low-cost CPE device that can bond eight T1/E1 signals over a single Ethernet connection.The new 40 Gbps HN6100 is a two-rack-unit...

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