June 5, 2012
AboveNet Inc.'s shareholders have voted in favor of the fiber-optic networks provider's sale to Louisville-based Zayo Group, officials said Tuesday, a day when the locally based bandwidth company separately announced its 21st acquisition.
June 5, 2012
CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader in photonic switching technology, and Cyan Inc. , a global innovator of software-defined packet-optical transport systems, today announced that Minnesota Telecom's Northeast Service Cooperative (NESC) has picked the two companies to deploy a revolutionary fiber-optic network to deliver a wide range of data services, at speeds up to 10Gbps, to customers in rural Northeast Minnesota.
June 5, 2012
Zayo Group announces it has executed a definitive agreement to acquire FiberGate, Inc., a Washington, D.C. metro area provider of Dark Fiber services. The FiberGate acquisition adds 130,000 fiber miles to Zayo's metro network in and around the nation's capital. The current FiberGate network also includes 315 on-net buildings and two recently completed expansions to Frederick and Baltimore, Maryland.
June 5, 2012
The chasm between how our wireless infrastructure works and the way we want to use it is widening. Growth in wireless has started climbing exponentially. Global mobile traffic is expected to go from less than 500 petabytes per month in 2010, to more than 6,000 PB by 2015 .
June 4, 2012
Subscribers in Garmu in rural Bong County and Yekepa, Nimba County are expressing appreciation as Liberia's leader in converged telecommunications and partner of choice has again demonstrated a high level of ingenuity and innovation in the area of mobile telecommunications not just in Liberia, but on the continent of Africa, by the invention and deployment of truly versatile Mobile BTS Sites for quick deployment in remote areas with challenging access.
June 4, 2012
Construction of a municipal fiber-optic cable network is expected to begin later this year after residents Saturday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a $3.6 million bond measure to finance the project.