Industry News

Broadband schemes take a bumpy ride

March 27, 2012

A project to bring high-speed Internet access to 1,500 homes in Lac qui Parle County in western Minnesota was supposed to be well under way by now. It had federal approval and millions in federal stimulus dollars at the ready, but last spring the project hit a snag. Farmers Mutual, the local telephone company building the network, couldn't lay its hands on the necessary fiber optic cable.

GBI chief appointed to PTC board

March 27, 2012

The Pacific Telecom Council (PTC) has appointed Ahmed Mekky, board member and chief executive officer of Gulf Bridge International (GBI), an international private fiber optic cable company, to its 2012 Board of Governors.

LightPointe Introduces Fiber Optics and RF Alternatives

March 27, 2012

LightPointe, the number one manufacturer of 4th generation Free Space Optics (FSO) and Hybrid Optical-Radio Wireless Bridges, and a leading innovator in 60/70/80 GHz millimeter wave backhaul solutions, announced the introduction of the world’s fastest, lowest latency point-to-point bridge, the Aire X-Stream. The all-outdoor wireless bridge provides faster-than-fiber performance and extreme low equipment latency of less than 20 nanoseconds for latency sensitive data transmission, such as C4ISR military communications (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Reconnaissance) and commercial applications such as High Frequency Stock Trading.

TIM Brasil Selected Amdocs to Provide Platform For New National Fiber-Optic Broadband Service

March 27, 2012

Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that TIM Brasil, the second largest mobile service provider in Brazil, has selected the Amdocs CES (Customer Experience Systems) product portfolio and a range of Amdocs consulting, integration and implementation services for its new TIM Fiber residential broadband service.

FiOS: Less Cities Complaint About Spectrum Deal

March 26, 2012

Groups in five cities without FiOS service have asked the FCC not to approve the sale of cable wireless spectrum to Verizon and the associated deals that have cable operators marketing video service in Verizon Wireless' stores, or at least not okay it without conditions that spread the FiOS wealth.

Unite Private Networks announces the completion of 66-Mile Fiber Network in Houston County, Georgia

March 26, 2012

Unite Private Networks (UPN),today announced the completion of a 66-mile fiber-optic wide-area-network built to serve the Houston County Board of Education (HCBE), and other local customers. In connecting the HCBE schools, the fiber network covers much of Warner Robins, Centerville and Perry, Georgia. UPN worked with Flint Energies to access utility rights-of-way for much of the network.

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