IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., the world’s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. The acquisition will strengthen IBM’s leadership position in cloud computing and will help speed business adoption of public and private cloud solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. “As businesses add [...] Read more »
DukeNet Communications Drives 100G Capability Throughout its Southeastern Footprint
DukeNet Communications announced today that it’s upgraded its core network, enabling it to deliver 100G wavelengths across its service area. The network enhancement provides 100G-capable coherent Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, enabling deployment of 40G and 100G solutions for its carrier and enterprise customers without the need to replace [...] Read more »
GlobeNet Opens Fastest US – Brazil IP Traffic Route Via Platform Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oi, has extended its low latency network into Equinix’s MI3 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Boca Raton, Florida. GlobeNet’s expansion into [...] Read more »
Global Capacity Enhances LATTIS, the De Facto Database of Local Tariff Rates
Global Capacity, the leading network connectivity company, today announces the enhancement of LATTIS, the industry standard tariff pricing database, with real-time geocoding to deliver more efficient and accurate pricing of access network solutions. With more than 4,500 end-users, LATTIS is the premiere database for sourcing US-based, intra and inter-state access price quotes. [...] Read more »
Level 3 to Enable VoiceAmerica’s Global Radio Platform
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) today announced it is providing content delivery network (CDN) services for VoiceAmerica, a producer of more than 300 original live Internet talk radio programs delivered on a weekly basis. Level 3′s CDN services will help enable VoiceAmerica to deliver its online content to a [...] Read more »
Cbeyond Receives Achievement in Customer Excellence Award
Cbeyond Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), the technology ally to small and mid-sized businesses, has been awarded a 2013 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellen! ce) Award. The accolade demonstrates Cbeyond’s long-term commitment to customer satisfaction during the sales and installation process. The Confirmit ACE Awards program celebrates outstanding achievement in customer satisfaction, employee [...] Read more »
Successful trial of 100 Gbps, 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps data transmissions over an optical network
Telefónica España and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) have today announced an industry breakthrough in addressing the ever-escalating demand for broadband traffic on data networks by successfully completing a field trial of flexible optical networking. The solution, which employs “agile optical networking” technology, more than doubles an operator’s fiber capacity [...] Read more »
Former Comcast Business Director Lanny Gray joins Telarus as new VP of Business Development
Telarus, Inc., the premier telecom master agent and patent holder of real-time carrier quotes, announced today the hiring of Lanny Gray as its new VP of Business Development with a focus on supplier management. Lanny Gray comes to Telarus after four years at Comcast Business, where he served as the [...] Read more »
TelePacific’s Forecast: Cloud Moving In
U.S. TelePacific Corp., which does business as TelePacific Communications (TelePacific), continues to focus on a strategy of providing small and medium sized businesses the benefits of simpler and more powerful communications solutions that take full advantage of rapidly evolving technology capabilities. The company, which has been in Inc. Magazine’s “Fastest [...] Read more »
