Industry News

Clearwave chooses Cyan, Juniper Networks for Southern Illinois Data Center and broadband stimulus project

June 29, 2011

Delta Communications, LLC, doing business as Clearwave Communications, says it has selected Cyan and Juniper Networks as its strategic suppliers of packet optical transport and routing platforms, respectively. Clearwave was awarded $31,515,253 in Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) funding as part of the broadband stimulus program, plus $11,351,250 in matching State of Illinois funding as part of the Illinois Broadband Opportunities Program (IBOP).

Warren & Brown Technologies to supply NBN cable hardware

June 29, 2011

NBN Co. has awarded an equipment contract worth up to AUS $110 million over five years to Australian fiber-optic equipment manufacturer Warren and Brown Technologies.

Bell Aliant to expand Halifax FTTH network

June 29, 2011

Bell Aliant, with a financial boost from the Government of Nova Scotia, has announced a CAN $55 million investment to expand its FibreOP fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, to approximately 160,000 homes and businesses in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Fiber-enabled smart grid initiative launched on Prince Edward Island

June 28, 2011

The City of Summerside, the second largest city on Prince Edward Island, Canada, will use technology from Tantalus to tie together the municipality’s fiber-to-the-meter network, wind-generated power, and in-home energy storage devices. The smart grid project is designed to enable the city to optimize the performance of its distribution network and reduce its carbon footprint by providing consumers with a reliable, low cost source of renewable energy.

Forty-one UK market towns on BT’s next super-fast broadband list

June 28, 2011

BT has unveiled a list of 41 “market towns” in which it will deploy its fiber to the cabinet (FTTC) super-fast broadband infrastructure. BT plans to connect approximately 300,000 businesses and consumers with FTTC and offer broadband speeds of up to 40 Mbps by Spring 2012.

NTCA: Regulatory uncertainty threaten climbing rural broadband take rates

June 28, 2011

Broadband take rates in rural communities continue to rise, but regulatory uncertainty surrounding the national broadband plan (NBP) poses a severe threat to future deployment in rural America, according to a survey by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA).

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