USA Reaches Deals with Canada & Mexico on 700 MHz Sharing along Borders

The FCC announced deals with Industry Canada and Mexico's Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) for sharing commercial wireless broadband spectrum in the 700 MHz band along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican border areas. The arrangement with Industry Canada also calls for sharing spectrum in the 800 MHz band. Under the arrangements, licensees on both sides of the borders will have greater access to the 698-758 MHz and 776-788...

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Cisco Wins 3-Year Support Deal with du

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du) has awarded a three-year contract to Cisco for network support and optimisation services for existing and future network infrastructure growth.Cisco Capital (Dubai) arranged financing. The deal provides du with a predictable and optimized Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over three years. http://www.cisco....

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Extreme Networks Posts Revenue of $89.8 Million

Extreme Networks reported quarterly net revenue of $89.8 million, as compared to $85.5 million for the same period last year. Quarterly net product revenue was $73.8 million, up 4% YoY, and service revenue was $16.0 million, down 8% YoY. Estimated net loss on a GAAP basis for the quarter was $2.1 million or a loss of $0.02* per diluted share, including the impact of a $2.8 million charge for a previously announced restructuring, net of reversals, and $1.5 million in stock-based compensation. For the quarter, total net revenue in North America...

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Verizon Inks Mobile Payment Deal with American Expres

Verizon Wireless will integrate American Express' new "Serve" digital payment and commerce platform on many of its mobile phones and tablets. Serve simplifies the online checkout experience by authenticating a mobile number, then allowing a customer to make a purchase on-screen. Verizon Wireless customers will be need to establish Serve accounts that will enable them to make payments and redeem offers for goods and services directly from their mobile...

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euNetworks Cuts Latency on London to Frankfurt Route

euNetworks Group has optimised the London to Frankfurt low latency route on its dedicated finance network. The company said it is now linking key Finance Exchanges and Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) in London to Frankfurt with a lowest one way latency of 4.29 milliseconds. Additionally, following optimisation from Slough, west of London, to Frankfurt, one way latency on this route is now 4.56 milliseconds. http://www.eunetworks....

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Level 3 Connects London Stock Exchange

Level 3 Communications now offers connectivity to its colocation facility at London Stock Exchange Group's Data Center in the City of London. The new point-of-presence (PoP) offers connectivity into Level 3's global network. http://www.Level3....

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Microsoft GFS Datacenter Tour

This video traces Microsoft's data centers since 1989 through today's high-efficient Gen 4 designs. Microsoft currently delivers over 200 cloud services to more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries. http://www.youtube.com/user/MSGFST...

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Infinera and SEACOM Test 500 Gbps PICs

Infinera and SEACOM, a leading pan-African telecommunications provider, has completed testing of five 100 Gigabit per second (100 Gbps) coherent optical signals transmitted over 1732 km. The 500 Gbps trial ran over and was looped back across SEACOM's newly built 930 km Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) fiber route which links the SEACOM Mtunzini cable landing station in KwaZulu Natal to the Teraco data center in Johannesburg. The trial used Infinera's 500...

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Windstream Acquisition of Paetec Brings Greater Size, Business Reach

Windstream agreed to acquire PAETEC Holding Corp. for approximately $2.3 billion. PAETEC is a competitive local exchange carrier and provides telecommunications services primarily to business customers in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The company operates seven data centers in the U.S. and owns approximately 36,700 route miles of fiber in portions of 39 states and the District of Columbia. It has approximately 5,000 employees, including...

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Telstra Files its Structural Separation Plan

Telstra officially filed a Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU) and Migration Plan with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), paving the way for the decommission of the Telstra copper network and eventual migration of traffic onto the new fibre infrastructure of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).The Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU) has two components:it commits Telstra to structural separation by 1 July 2018....

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Inmarsat Picks Launch Partner for Global Xpress

Inmarsat has selected International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites for its forthcoming Global Xpress network, which promises global, mobile broadband speeds of up to 50 Mbps for users in the government, maritime, enterprise, energy and aeronautical sectors. Inmarsat is investing an estimated amount of US$1.2 billion in the Global Xpress program, which includes launch costs. The Inmarsat-5 satellites are based...

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Vitesse Appoints CFO

Vitesse Semiconductor announced the appointment of Martin S. McDermut as senior vice president, finance and chief financial officer, replacing Rich Yonker who has served as chief financial officer since 2006. McDermut was previously the managing director of Avant Advisory Group, a financial advisory and management consulting firm to entrepreneurial and middle market companies. He has also served as chief financial officer for publicly traded companies including Iris International Inc. and Superconductor Technologies Inc. http://www.vitesse....

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Huawei Appoints a High Profile Security Officer

Huawei appointed John Suffolk as its Global Cyber Security Officer. Mr. Suffolk will be based at the Huawei global headquarters in Shenzhen and will report directly to Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei. He will be in charge of developing, managing and supervising Huawei's cyber security assurance strategy and system, which will be adopted by all business units across the company's global offices. Suffolk comes to Huawei from his position as Chief Information...

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mimoOn Partners with TI for Small Cell LTE Base Stations

mimoOn, which offers LTE software licensing for Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms, is working with Texas Instruments for 3GPP compliant LTE PHY software. TI will offer complete PHY software for LTE Release 8 and 9 for its' KeyStone multicore architecture, with a specific focus on its newest TMS320TCI6612 and TMS320TCI6614 System-on-Chips (SoCs). These SoCs are especially designed for small cell base stations in the enterprise, pico and metro...

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GSA Notes Rapid Growth in LTE Ecosystem

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) confirms that 45 manufacturers have announced 161 LTE-enabled user devices, representing 155% growth in the number of products reported by GSA in early February 2011.Alan Hadden, President of GSA, said: "The majority of LTE user devices are focused on the 700 MHz band where LTE networks are developing fastest. As LTE rollouts accelerate in other regions, particularly in Europe and Asia Pacific, where...

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Vodafone Wins 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz Spectrum in Spain

Vodafone Spain was the successful bidder on a total of 60 MHz of spectrum in Spain's auction. Specifically,Vodafone Spain bid successfully for a total of 20 MHz (2x10 MHz) in the 800 MHz band and 40 MHz (2x20MHz) in 2.6 GHz band for a total consideration of €518 million (£454 million1). The 800 MHz ‘digital dividend' spectrum will become available in 2014 after the switchover from analogue to all-digital TV broadcasting in Spain. The 2.6 GHz spectrum...

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Huawei Opens R&D Center in New Jersey

Huawei announced the opening of its Northeast regional headquarters office in Bridgewater, New Jersey. In addition to sales, services, and operations to deliver on the company's customer-centric promise; the Bridgewater, NJ facility is also the North American Research & Development (R&D) hub for wireless technologies. The opening event was attended by New Jersey Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno.Huawei noted that it now has nearly 1,500 U.S. employees,...

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Telefónica España Wins 70 MHz in Spectrum Auction

Telefónica Spain was the winning bidder on five blocks of frequencies (70 MHz total) in the spectrum auction conducted by Spain's Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. This includes 2x10 MHz in the 800 MHz band, which the company plans to use for a nationwide LTE network. Additionally, Telefónica has secured 2x5 MHz in the 900 MHz band and 2x20 MHz in the 2.6 GHz band, enabling other broadband wireless services.Telefónica bid 668 million euros,...

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Palo Alto Networks Appoints CEO, Notes $200 Million Run Rate

Palo Alto Networks, which supplies next-generation firewalls, has appointed Mark D. McLaughlin as president and CEO. McLaughlin previously served as president and CEO of VeriSign. Palo Alto Networks also released several financial metrics , including that it has achieved a bookings run rate well above the US$200 million mark and that its cashflow from operations has been positive for five consecutive quarters. The company also noted that it has...

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CA Technologies Acquires Watchmouse for SaaS-based Monitoring

CA Technologies agreed to acquire privately-held Watchmouse B.V., which provides SaaS-based monitoring for cloud, mobile and traditional Web applications. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.WatchMouse uses a globally-distributed infrastructure of more than 60 monitoring stations in more than 40 countries. It replicates real-user transactions from these locations to provide rich, up-to-the-minute insight into application performance and availability."As...

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Leading Carriers Submit USF/ICC Plan to FCC

A coalition of six of the leading carriers in the U.S., submitted a proposal to the FCC for reforming the Universal Service Fund (USF) and the Intercarrier Compensation (ICC) system. Members of the group include AT&T, CenturyLink, FairPoint, Frontier, Verizon and Windstream -- which collectively serve the vast majority of U.S. wireline customers, including those residing in high-cost rural areas, which are the primary focus of USF support. The...

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South Korea Internet Users Suffer Cyber Attack

Hackers have stolen personal account information from 35 million South Korean Internet users of the popular Nate portal and social network Cyworld, operated by SK Communications, according to the country's Communications Commission. The attack is believed to have originated from IP addresses registered in China. The incident is described as Korea's largest cyber attack to date. http://www.kcc.go.kr/user...

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NetLogic Records Sales of $103.7 million

NetLogic Microsystems reported Q2 revenue of $103.7 million, a 5.1% sequential increase from $98.7 million for the first quarter of 2011 and a 9.1% increase from $95.0 million for the second quarter of 2010. Net loss (GAAP) was $35.2 million or $0.51 per diluted share. By comparison, GAAP net loss was $4.8 million or $0.08 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2010. "With continued positive trends in the wireless infrastructure market, we...

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AppliedMicro Posts Quarterly Revenue of $60.8 million, up 4% sequentially

AppliedMicro reported Q1 2012 net revenues of $60.8 million, up 4% sequentially and up 0.1%. There was a GAAP net loss was $6.9 million or $0.11 per share compared to net loss of $4.0 million or $0.06 per share for the preceding quarter."Although we achieved our revenue targets for the quarter we did experience unfavorable product mix primarily with anticipated "turns" revenue for the quarter. Despite the hit to our gross margins we continue to see a high level of interest in our products and technology and I remain convinced that the long term...

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Telefónica Shows Grown from Latin America and Mobile Data

Telefónica reported Q2 revenues of 30,886 million euros in the first half of 2011 thanks to the sharp rise at Telefónica Latinoamérica (+18.4% year-on-year) and the significant increase of mobile data revenue (+18.5% year-on-year). Consolidated OIBDA advanced 3.7% to 11,304 million euros thanks to the high level of operating efficiency, leaving an OIBDA margin of 36.6% .Some highlights from the financial report:Telefónica Latinoamérica and Telefónica...

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U.S. Wireless Carriers Ask President Obama to Clear Government Spectrum Bands Below 3 GHz

The heads of major U.S. wireless operators, including Ralph de la Vega (AT&T), Patrick Riordan (Cellcom), Dan Hesse (Sprint), Philipp Humm (T-Mobile USA), Mary Dillon (U.S. Cellular) and Dan Mead (Verizon Wireless), published an open letter to President Obama asking him to clear unused and underutilized government spectrum bands below 3 gigahertz (GHz). Specifically, the carriers are asking for the President to direct the National Telecommunications...

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France Telecom's 1H11 Revenue Rose 0.3% to 22.569 B Euros

Despite crises affecting operations in Egypt and Côte d'Ivoire and an unfavourable VAT increase in its home market, France Telecom's first half 2011 revenues rose 0.3% to 22.569 billion euros, excluding the impact of regulatory measures. Restated EBITDA was 7.613 billion euros with margin erosion limited to -1.5 percentage points.Some highlights of the financial report:The Group had 217.3 million customers at 30 June 2011 (excluding MVNOs), a 7.0%...

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OIF Approves OTN-capable E-NNI Routing

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) approved the External Network-Network Interface (E-NNI) OSPFv2-based (Open Shortest Path First, version 2) Routing – 2.0 (Intra-Carrier) Implementation Agreement. The new IA supports routing for digital connections using ITU-T Optical Transport Networking (OTN) standards and incorporates updates and extensions to the E-NNI Routing 1.0 IA (2007), including: formats and encoding for routing of OTN ODUj connectionsEthernet...

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Alcatel-Lucent Sees Fastest Growth in IP/MPLS Router Business

Alcatel-Lucent's Q2 revenue increased 2.4% year-over-year and increased 4.4% sequentially to Euro 3.903 billion. At constant currency exchange rates and perimeter, revenue increased 10.4% year-over-year and increased 7.6% sequentially. Reported net income (group share) was Euro 43 million or Euro 0.02 per share. "We are on track for the year. In the second quarter, our next-generation product sales increased sharply, delivering market share gains...

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NTT America Deploys Bloom Energy Servers in SJ Data Center

NTT America has deployed five Bloom Energy Servers at its Lundy Data Center in San Jose, California. The fuel cells at this data center will use biogas supplied via a pipeline from a California dairy farm to generate electricity on-site.The five Bloom Energy Servers offer a total capacity of 500kW (kilowatts), or approximately the baseline required to power 500 average homes or five 30,000 square-foot office buildings. These will produce over 4.2...

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Sprint Sees Q2 Improvements, But Loss Widens

Citing higher postpaid ARPU, growth in the number of net prepaid subscribers and higher wireless equipment revenues, Sprint reported consolidated net operating revenues of $8.3 billion for Q2, 4 percent higher than in the second quarter of 2010 and remained relatively flat as compared to the first quarter of 2011. Adjusted OIBDA was $1.3 billion for the quarter, including the estimated incremental impact of $120 million from customer acquisition...

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Sprint and LightSquared Sign $13 Billion LTE + Satellite Deal

Sprint and LightSquared announced a 15-year agreement that includes spectrum hosting and network services, 4G wholesale, and 3G roaming. The deal gives Sprint $9 billion in cash to build out its 4G network and provides LightSquared with a Tier-One partner for bringing its wholesale-only, nationwide LTE + L-Band broadband satellite service to market, should the FCC approve its GPS terrestrial interference mitigation proposals.Specifically, LightSquared...

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Gig.U Seeks to Spur FTTH for University Communities

A coalition of 28 leading academic institutions across the U.S. have formed Gig.U: The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project. The goal is to accelerate the offering of ultra high-speed network services to their communities. Organizers said this initiative is needed because current service providers in the United States do not have any plans to offer ultra high-speed services for university communities.Within the next 90 days. Gig.U...

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USDA Announces $192 million in Loans for Broadband Projects

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced $192 million in loans for broadband projects by rural telecom carriers in eight states.Administered by USDA Rural Development's Rural Utilities Service (RUS), this financing is part of the $690 million investment during fiscal year 2011 and is in addition to the $3.5 billion in broadband funding RUS awarded for projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Award recipients include:IowaFarmers...

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Frontier Expands in Former VZ Territory with ADTRAN

Frontier Communications has selected ADTRAN for its build out of broadband services in new markets in 14 states acquired by Frontier in July 2010. Frontier's goal is to extend High-Speed Internet to at least 85 percent of this customer base by 2013. ADTRAN's extensive broadband portfolio, professional services and network management solutions are being utilized to enable delivery of enhanced broadband and new bundled services to customers across this expanded geographic footprint. Financial terms were not disclosed.Michael Golob, senior vice president,...

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Equinix Growth Continues: Revenues up, New Data Centers

Equinix recorded Q2 revenues of $394.9 million, a 9% increase over the previous quarter and a 33% increase over the same quarter last year. Reported adjusted EBITDA of $181.3 million, an 8% increase over the previous quarter and a 37% increase over the same quarter last year. This quarter included the results from the acquisition of an indirect, controlling equity interest in ALOG Data Centers do Brasil S.A. from April 25, 2011, which is referred...

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Global Crossing Sees Q2 Revenues Rise 10% YoY

Global Crossing reported revenue of $692 million in the second quarter of 2011, an increase of 5 percent sequentially and 10 percent year over year. The company's strategic "invest and grow" services generated revenue of $622 million in the second quarter, an increase of 6 percent sequentially and 12 percent year over year. Global Crossing reported $96 million of OIBDA in the second quarter, compared with $84 million in the first quarter of 2011 and $93 million in the second quarter of 2010. "Strong demand and continued enterprise-wide focus...

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ARRIS' Q2 Revenue Slips to $266 Million

ARRIS reported Q2 revenue of $265.8 million as compared to second quarter 2010 revenues of $280.4 million and as compared to first quarter 2011 revenues of $267.4 million. Through the first half of 2011 and 2010, revenues were $533.2 million and $547.1 million, respectively.GAAP net income in the second quarter 2011 was $0.13 per diluted share, as compared to second quarter 2010 GAAP net income of $0.15 per diluted share and first quarter 2011 GAAP net income of $0.09 per diluted share. Gross margin for the second quarter 2011 was 40.2%, which...

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Level 3 Posts Revenue of $932 Million -- Flat

Level 3 Communications reported consolidated revenue of $932 million for the second quarter 2011, a slight increase compared to consolidated revenue of $929 million for the first quarter 2011 and $908 million for the second quarter 2010. The net loss for the second quarter 2011 was $181 million, or $0.11 per share, which included a $0.02 per share charge of $23 million on the extinguishment of debt and $14 million in costs associated with Global...

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Meru Posts Q2 Revenue of $23.2 Million, up 11% YoY

Meru Networks reported record quarterly revenues of $23.2 million, an increase of 11% year-over-year. Net loss GAAP) was $9.8 million for the second quarter of 2011, or a net loss of $0.56 per basic and diluted share, compared to net income of $901,000, or $0.05 per diluted share, for the same period of 2010. Products revenues grew 24% year-over-year and 23% from the previous quarter. The company's customer count is now over 5,000 worldwide, an increase in the installed base of approximately 9% from the end of the prior quarter."We are pleased...

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U.K. Arrests LulzSec's Spokesman -- Topiary

The U.K.'s Metropolitan Police Service arrested a 19-year-old man in the Shetland Islands who is believed to be "Topiary." a spokesman for the hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec. Another 17-year-old male is being interviewed under caution in connection with the inquiry. He has not been arrested.Earlier on Wednesday, LulzSec issued a communiqué blasting PayPal, as well as the FBI, while claiming that the group's activity is not comparable to malicious botnets and should not be considered a cyber crime.http://bit.ly/mUV...

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Polaris Wireless Offers Software-based Mass Location Tools for Law Enforcement

Polaris Wireless introduced its "Altus" suite of applications for law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. The new software-based surveillance tools, which are powered by Polaris Wireless Location Signatures (Polaris WLS) technology, enable accurate mass location – providing law enforcement with the ability to simultaneously locate all subscribers in a wireless network in real time and on a historical basis. Polaris Wireless said its...

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Sprint Inks New Cell Site Agreement with Crown Castle

Sprint and Crown Castle announced a new agreement to enable the delivery of the next-generation networks through Sprint's Network Vision plan. The agreement impacts more than 10,000 of Sprint's nationwide cell sites.The new deal agreement:Establishes uniform rates for deploying all Network Vision sites rather than negotiating tower contracts on a site-by-site basis. This provides a high degree of cost predictability to Sprint as its network evolves...

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Crown Castle Raises 2011 Outlook

Crown Castle International Corp.'s Q2 revenue increased 10% to $500 million from $456 million in the same period in 2010. Site rental revenue for the second quarter of 2011 increased $47 million, or 12%, to $457 million from $410 million for the same period in the prior year. Site rental gross margin, defined as site rental revenue less site rental cost of operations, increased $42 million, or 14%, to $336 million in the second quarter of 2011 from...

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New Pluggable Transceiver Module Multi-Source Agreement for 40 Gbps

Leading optical chip manufacturers, including Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OKI SEMICONDUCTOR, Opnext, Renesas Electronics, and Sumitomo Electric Industries, announced a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) and receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) for 40 Gbps pluggable transceiver modules. The new TOSA/ROSA MSA defines both the laser transmitter devices and the PIN Photodiode - Trans-impedance amplifier (PIN-TIA)...

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Verizon Partners with Dept. of Energy

Verizon will collaborate with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop new ways to reduce energy use in the information and communications technology industry. Specifically, Verizon will work with the laboratory on a possible blueprint for reducing energy use throughout the information and communications technology industry. The collaboration targets several areas: Energy efficiency and energy management...

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IEEE 802.22 Whitespaces Spec Supports 22 Mbps up to 100km

The IEEE published the 802.22 standard for Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) using the favorable transmission characteristics of the VHF and UHF TV bands. 802.22 enables broadband wireless access over a large area up to 100 km from the transmitter. The standard specifies up to 22 Mbps per channel without interfering with reception of existing TV broadcast stations, using the so-called white spaces between the occupied TV channels.IEEE 802.22...

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Artelis Deploys ADVA's FSP 3000

artelis, an alternative communications provider in Luxembourg and Saarland, Germany, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 in a new backbone infrastructure that effectively unites its separate networks onto one flexible core. Built on over 30 ADVA FSP 3000 units, artelis' new core network primarily consists of two high-availability ring structures and a redundant interconnection to an Internet peering point in Frankfurt, Germany. Each FSP 3000 unit features 40 channels transporting 10Gbit/s per wavelength. These channels will be upgraded to 100Gbit/s...

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Dell'Oro: $11 Billion Market for Optical Transport DWDM by 2015

Total worldwide Optical DWDM equipment revenue is forecast to grow at a 12% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next 5 years, reaching $11 billion, according to a newly released Optical Transport forecast report by Dell'Oro Group. Demand for high capacity wavelengths will drive up 40/100 Gbps DWDM shipments to an average annual growth rate of 50%."We're projecting a very strong market for both 40 and 100 gigabit DWDM," said Jimmy Yu, Sr....

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ECI Telecom Offers Packet Radio Backhaul for 4G/LTE

ECI Telecom is expanding its BG-Wave family of carrier-grade microwave radio with a new ​all-outdoor packet offering designed to support LTE in small-sized and high-capacity cell sites. The new offering includes:BGW-OE, utilizing the conventional microwave spectrum (6 to 38 GHz), is a compact outdoor enclosure for the BG-Wave series of packet and All-Native multiservice radio nodes (MRANs). This enclosure is best suited for sites where putting...

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OneCommunity Selects Fujitsu FLASHWAVE for Fiber Project

OneCommunity, which is launching a "Transforming Northeast Ohio: From Rust Belt to Tech Powerhouse" project, has selected Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform (Packet ONP) for integrating Ethernet, ROADM and SONET/SDH. Backed by a $44.8 million grant from the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), the project will deploy 1,000 miles of fiber across northern Ohio.While the FLASHWAVE 9500 supplies...

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Sen. Al Franken Opposes AT&T + T-Mobile Deal

Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) announced his opposition to AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. In filings with the DOJ and FCC, Franken argues that the merger would be a bad deal for consumers and that it would further stifle competition in an already-concentrated wireless market.http://franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1...

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Tellabs Post Q2 Sales Decline, Announces Job Cuts

Tellabs reported Q2 revenue of $334 million, down 21% from $423 million in the year-ago quarter. North America revenue fell 46%, while international revenue rose 70%, compared with the year-ago quarter. On a GAAP basis, Tellabs recorded a net loss of $20 million or 6 cents per share (basic and diluted) in the second quarter of 2011, compared with net earnings of $64 million or 17 cents per basic share and 16 cents per diluted share in the second quarter of 2010. Broadband segment revenue was $163 million, down 29% from the yearago quarter. Transport...

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Juniper Posts Q2 revenue of $1.1 B, up 15% YoY and up 2% from Q1

Juniper Networks reported Q2 revenue of $1,120.5 million, up 15% from Q2'10 and up 2% from the preceding quarter. GAAP net income was $115.6 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $167.2 million, or $0.31 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2011.Juniper's operating margin for the second quarter of 2011 decreased to 15.3% on a GAAP basis from 16.1% in the first quarter of 2011, and from 18.9% in the prior year second...

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NTT Communications Launches Global Virtual Link Ethernet

NTT Communications announced the worldwide launch of its Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) service, called Global Virtual Link. First introduced in the US through NTT America in 2006, the service is now available in France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands and the U.K., through NTT Com's Tier-1 Global IP Network, one of the world's largest IP backbones. The service allows dedicated bandwidth from 100 Mbps to...

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