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12/15/2011
Verizon Creates New Group Focused on Enterprise Solutions
In a move to boost its enterprise-class solutions, Verizon has created a new global organization that will oversee all business, government and wholesale operations from across the company’s wireless and wireline businesses. ??John Stratton, previously executive vice president and chief operating officer of Verizon Wireless, has been named president of the new organization, to be […]
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12/15/2011
Colorado Utility Defeats Incumbents For Comms Services Rights
More than 100 municipalities in the United States have built or are in the process of building fiber networks. However, in some places, they must engage in legal and regulatory battles with incumbent operators if they want to sell certain kinds of communications services over their networks. (For more, see Utopia Is: Having Fiber To […]
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12/14/2011
Verizon Goes Toe-to-Toe With Cablevision in Lawsuit
Last week, Cablevision Systems filed a lawsuit to stop a Verizon advertising campaign, which it claims makes intentionally false and misleading statements related to Cablevision’s high-speed Internet service. (For more, see Cablevision Sues Verizon Over High-Speed Internet Ads). Verizon has responded in Federal Court with the following statement: "This case is about deceptive marketing – […]
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12/14/2011
Argentinean Operator Deploys Alcatel-Lucent’s 100 Gigabit Optical Solution
Cablevision Argentina will deploy an advanced optical networking solution to deliver services at 100 Gbps (100G) speeds. Cablevision Argentina has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s next-generation 100G optical coherent networking solution to dramatically increase performance and service speeds for its more than three million CATV customers and more than one million Internet users. Alcatel-Lucent is supplying its 1830 […]
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12/14/2011
ACA: Encryption of Basic Tier is Good, But Give Flexibility to Small Operators
The American Cable Association (ACA) filed more comments this week pertaining to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposals to allow all-digital cable systems to encrypt the basic tier voluntarily. ACA is concerned that various consumer-centric safeguards under FCC consideration would come with high and disproportionate costs and would make encryption, which will help operators monitor for […]
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12/14/2011
Conference Focuses on End Users' Ethernet Experience
The Ethernet Alliance will hold a Technology Exploration Forum (TEF) February 16, 2012 at Silicon Valley’s Techmart conference center, featuring a cross-section of business, industry, and technology leaders who will speak on a range of topics, including data centers, networking, the Internet, power issues, and the future of Ethernet. The conference “The End Users Speak!” […]