Juniper (JNPR), Infinera (INFN), and Level 3 Communications (LVLT) announced today that they will work together towards the eventual development of highly anticipated 100 Gigabit Ethernet technology, along with research networks Internet2 and ESnet.  Of course, we already knew that each was working on their own part of this, so one might wonder why we [...]

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Now, I’m used to weak telecom reporting from some parts of the media, but this one really takes the cake.  The Washington Post, that bastion of newsworthiness, managed to write this wowser:

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A Woolly Market For Investors

(Hard Assets Investor, 10/16/08)

Axia NetMedia: take a look

(Communications Breakdown, 11/14/08)

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At its annual meeting this week, Internet2 and several partners will demo hi-def videoconferencing over Dynamic Circuit Networks, or DCN.  The 1080i video stream will be uncompressed and will clock in at around 1.2Gbps.   They will be connecting students in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in France with

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Optimum Lightpath, the metro fiber arm of Cablevision, announced today that it has passed the 3000 lit building threshold, on 3200 route miles of metro fiber in the New York City metropolitan area.  That is far and away the most for any CLEC in any market in the USA.  This statistic is helped of course [...]

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So we weren’t able to solve the riddle posed by Dan Caruso as to who Zayo’s 11th acquisition was.  The answer?  Metro fiber assets in Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago, Cincinnati, and the tri-cities area of Tennessee from Citynet.  Wait, Citynet? 

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Dan Caruso, who leads Zayo and writes bearonbusiness.com, has challenged the readers of Telecom Ramblings to guess Zayo’s 11th acquisition!  Well, we can’t turn that down can we?  Here are the clues:

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CenturyTel’s Buyout Bid for Embarq Will Likely Jump-Start a Wave of Mergers Among Rural Teleco…

(Money Morning, 10/28/08)

Fiber diet restored

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Apparently, NTT’s customers in Japan are also getting a usage cap.   But it’s quite different from Comcasts 250Gb/month limit.  NTT’s limit is a) daily, b) 30Gb, and c) upstream only.  Who the heck uploads 30Gb/day?  Apparently some P2P nodes will do that if you let them and happen to be hooked up to the sort [...]

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Nyquist Capital has a fantastic article on the prospects of 40G technology and the underlying trends, I recommend a read.  A dynamic I’d tack on is one brought up by a reader of this blog in a private message that has been rattling around in

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