Rip and Replace
Hargray Requests Six Month Rip-and-Replace Extension
Company needs more time to deal with impact of recent hurricanes in South Carolina.
Ziply
Ziply Announces Fiber-Rich 400 Gig ‘Northern Link Route’
The route will connect the Pacific Northwest to Minneapolis and Chicago
Briefs
Summit Broadband Launches 400 Gbps Service
The ISP provided an entertainment company with two 400 Gbps circuits for an aggregate 800 Gbps capacity.
Fiber
Largest Trans Atlantic Cable Adopts Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme
The architecture is expected to increase the fiber optic cable's capacity.
Briefs
Ciena Announces Second Year of Broadband Project in Rural Fiji
The project proposes to connect more than 2,000 students and teachers in Fiji.
NTIA Awards $13 Million from Wireless Fund, New Ritter CTO, Middle Mile in Virginia and North Carolina
The NTIA has awarded $13 million to open network projects.
Infrastructure
New Variant of Passive Optical Networking Beginning to Take Root: Broadband Communities
Faster speeds enabled by XGS-PONs are in high demand, say network operators.
FCC
FCC Bans First Voice Service Provider, ACP Outreach Program Funding, Ciena Buys Two Companies
Global UC is the first company to be removed by the FCC from receiving call traffic for robocall violations.
CETF
Voters Back Community Internet, ATIS Boosts Next G Alliance, A New State-Federal Broadband Partnership
Voters in Chicago and Denver have shown overwhelming support for local broadband projects. Roughly 90 percent of voters in Chicago approved a referendum question that asked: “Should the city of Chicago act to ensure that all the city’s community areas have access to broadband Internet?” This could a
china
Internet Technology and Military Power, Next G Alliance and 6G, Secret Service Agent on Cyber Security
October 19, 2020 – The experience of war today is fundamentally mediated by digital systems that facilitate almost every effort to gather, store, analyze, and communicate information in military organization, according to the author of a new book on Information Technology and Military Power. “The na
Tribal
Internet2 Upgrades Speed to 8.8 Terabits per second
WASHINGTON March 10, 2011 – Internet2, the nationwide ultra high-speed education network, announced that it will increase the network’s speed by a factor of nearly 900. The network’s existing speed is already approximately 1,000 times as fast as a the fastest widely-available high-speed residential
Recovery Act
Verizon and Free Press Agree that Remote Broadband Requires Monopolies
January 22, 2009 – Verizon Communications and Free Press agreed that bringing high-speed internet technology to unserved areas of western Massachusetts may result in a monopoly, or a single local telecommunications provider.
