Category: Business Broadband

  • Value Added Business Services Drive New Revenue

    Value Added Business Services Drive New Revenue

    Perhaps data center was the wrong term to use in describing the event Viodi is producing in conjunction with ITS Fiber this week in Florida. It is almost impossible for an independent operator to compete with large, data centers that are essentially real estate plays backed by entities with deep pockets. The point of our…

  • AT&T Offers Faster U-Verse Internet in CA and NV

    AT&T Offers Faster U-Verse Internet in CA and NV

    AT&T has launched a very tangible piece of its Project Velocity IP (VIP) in Nevada and California, introducing a faster U-verse broadband tier that delivers theoretical download speeds of up to 45 M bits/sec and upstream speeds of 6 M bits/sec. The new broadband tier, called U-verse High Speed Internet Power, will cost $50 a month…

  • Summary of Telecom Council TC3, Part 1- Service Provider Innovation Forum

    Summary of Telecom Council TC3, Part 1- Service Provider Innovation Forum

    Introduction: Telecom Council Carrier Connections (TC3) – the Telecom Council’s annual summit- was held Sept 12-13, 2012 in Sunnyvale, CA. The event provides an opportunity for startups and application developers to interact with telecom carriers (telcos) and network operators. Telco representatives who manage innovation, from developer programs and labs facilities to venture investing, discussed many…

  • XO Communications Leads Competitive Carrier Upsurge in Business Ethernet Services

    Introduction Business customers are buying Ethernet services from legacy and competitive carriers as well as from MSOs.  Cost effective performance, simplicity of operations, scalability and the ability to use the same access technology as in the enterprise LAN are somme of the reasons for this uptake.  In addition to the extra bandwidth and the variety of…

  • Comcast Fiber Network Buildout gives rise to Metro Ethernet and PRI trunking services for SMBs

    Comcast Fiber Network Buildout gives rise to Metro Ethernet and PRI trunking services for SMBs

    Introduction Comcast has been quietly expanding its fiber footprint – initially to offer cable modem based broadband Internet service to residential customers – but more recently to commercial buildings and even new office parks.  Since 2002, the U.S.’s largest MSO has spent over $600M to expand and upgrade its fiber network in Northern California, according…

  • Ethernet Extensions via a Bandwidth Transport Application Overlay

    Ethernet Extensions via a Bandwidth Transport Application Overlay

    These are photos of a white paper written by Bill Brotherton, Richard Murphy and Ken Pyle when they were at Raynet, an early developer of Fiber in the Loop technology, equipment and processes. This white paper was published at part of the June 1993 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference proceedings. (This post was created 11/15/2014).