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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