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07/10/2012
People Watch 07/10/12
Kris Rinne, senior vice president/Network Technologies at AT&T Labs, is the newly elected chair of the ATIS board of directors.
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07/10/2012
Events 07/10/12
Keynote speakers for this year’s TelcoTV conference and expo (Oct. 24-26 in Las Vegas) include Jeff Gardner, CEO, WindStream; Dave Wittwer, CEO, TDS Telecom; Jeff Weber, vice president/Video Product and Strategy, AT&T; Bob Mudge, president of Verizon’s consumer and mass business; and Shirley Bloomfield, CEO, NTCA.
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07/10/2012
Survey Sez 07/10/12
"Thanks to its good security profile, great brand presence and strong product offering, Cisco tops our worldwide scorecard for Web security SaaS for the second year in a row," announced Jeff Wilson, principal analyst/Security at Infonetics Research earlier today. "But competition in this space remains fierce, with zScaler, McAfee and Symantec in a virtual dead […]
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07/10/2012
Global Connections 07/10/12
Optical-network provider Opnext Inc. recently teamed with the Dutch SURFnet [the National Research and Education Network (NREN)] for a successful 100Gbps coherent field trial between the National Supercomputing Center, SARA, in Amsterdam and CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire – European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva. Opnext used its OTS-100FLX 100Gbps digital coherent […]
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07/10/2012
Deals Of The Day 07/10/12
Frontier Communications will use the $72 million it just received from the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect America Fund (CAF) to provide broadband service to an additional 93,000 households in more than half of the 27 states it serves. Notes Kathleen Quinn Abernathy, executive vice president/External Affairs, “This support will supplement the more than $1.5 billion […]
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07/10/2012
New Stuff 0710/12
Metro Interconnect, extending the reach of data-center customers in large metro areas, is the latest offering from zColo, a Zayo Group Company; the product launch is in conjunction with the close of AboveNet, an acquisition Zayo Group completed July 2. Metro Interconnect uses dark-fiber cross-connects to extend a customers’ reach from zColo sites to major in-market […]