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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google has just announced they’ll be shining their Gigabit glow on Shawnee, Kansas as they bring Fiber to another town just outside of Kansas City. Shawnee is the fifth city in Johnson county to be promised Google Fiber and now joins eight other cities awaiting Fiber to be laid and run into their homes. According to the Kansas City Star, the Shawnee city council announced a special meeting Thursday evening to “consider an...
Thousands are eligible for company's new high-speed fiber network pilot OMAHA, Neb., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) today announced it is connecting 48,000 Omaha homes and businesses with its new high-speed fiber network pilot that will deliver Internet speeds of up to one Gigabit per second (Gbps) - 100 times faster than average broadband speeds. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090602/DA26511LOGO) CenturyLink is upgrading its existing fiber...
DUBLIN, Ireland, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "FTTH/B European Panorama - Focus on FTTx in the UK" [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/nbssd7/ftthb_european ] report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) This insight provides a complete summary of the status of FTTH/B rollouts in the EU-39 region with a characterisation of each project by: Organisation...
TeraWave(TM) ULA Fiber Enables Higher Transmission Speeds with More Wavelengths over Trans-oceanic Distances PARIS, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products, has introduced TeraWave(TM) ULA Ocean Fiber, a new single-mode fiber designed for 100 Gb/s coherent transport in submarine systems for distances up to 12,000 km. A breakthrough in ocean fiber technology, TeraWave ULA Fiber offers a unique...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Traffic on the highways in Japan often moves along at a snail’s pace most of the day and is total gridlock at rush hour. However, the country does know a thing or two about moving along at high speeds. Japan’s Skinkansen – or bullet train – remains one of the fastest in the world and last year the island nation’s Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) unveiled a prototype of what promises to deliver even faster train service to...
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Entone, Inc., a leading provider of Hybrid TV and Connected Home solutions, today announced that United Services, Inc., a subsidiary of United Electric Cooperative (UECI), has selected its FusionTV solutions to power the delivery of advanced video services under its "United Fiber" brand. United Electric Cooperative is building a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in rural Missouri, offering access to one of the most advanced...
Fiber Optic Works 1.2 provides up-to-date view of network assets, maximizes revenue potential HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Intergraph(®) Security, Government and Infrastructure (SG&I) recently released G/Technology Fiber Optic Works 1.2, which streamlines the management of fiber optic infrastructure for utilities, communications providers, municipalities and state agencies. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081211/DECLOGO) Fiber is the core...
STOCKHOLM, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Affarsverken, a utility company in southern Sweden operating several City networks, is now expanding the use of their BECS Network Management System to include even ADSL customers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120906/559389 ) Affarsverken recently acquired Karlskrona Nat, an ADSL network with 2500 connections. Affarsverken has incorporated Karlskrona Nat in the existing PacketFront Software's BECS system...
Company's Innovation and Broadband, Internet Protocol Investments Are Powerful Platforms for Economic Growth NEWBURY PARK, Calif., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon's powerful networks continue to meet the growing broadband, communications and information needs of California consumers and businesses, as the company invested more than $549 million in its California wireline networks and information technology infrastructure in 2012. "Robust and modern communications networks...
QUEBEC CITY, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO, TSX: EXF) announced today that it will be attending OFC/NFOEC 2013, March 17-21, 2013, in Anaheim, California, in order to demonstrate its test solution for deploying, validating and troubleshooting networks up to 100G in the field. Steel-Toed and Field-Ready At this year's event, EXFO will unveil the industry's most compact 10M-to-100G testing solution for SONET, SDH, OTN and Ethernet services, setting a new...
