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Government Technology
April 13, 2018
GoNetspeed Chief Operating Officer Tom Perrone previously was vice president of engineering and planning for Fibertech Networks. The company's plans to build out its fiber optic network call for it to expand into additional Connecticut communities as it reaches at least a 10 percent expression of interestÃâà...
ITWeb Africa
April 13, 2018
Spanning 1,604km, the newly launched fibre optic interconnection by Gabon and Congo is a major landmark for the Central African fibre optic backbone (CAB) project. Gabon's network is 1,100km and in Congo it spans 504km. The interconnection represents the completion of phase 1 of component 4 ofÃâà...
The Coloradoan
April 13, 2018
Now the next question: When will you be able to plug into its gigabit fiber optic network? ... The geographic rollout phase will depend on the project design and construction the city selects later this summer, and some of it depends on if the city will have access to existing fiber optic networks. The city is inÃâà...
Law.com
April 13, 2018
The former CEO of Alaska fiber optics company Quintillion Networks was arrested and charged with defrauding two New York investment firms out of $250 million, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York announced Thursday. “To realize her plan to build a fiber optic system that would serviceÃâà...
ISPreview.co.uk (blog)
April 12, 2018
The report further forecasts that an estimated 1.92 million premises will have the ability to order altnet based fixed network “high-speed broadband” ... Multiple overlapping fibre optic networks could also create an ugly civil engineering situation for locals (i.e. pavements being repeatedly dug up), will do littleÃâà...
Business Chief Canada
April 10, 2018
Leading Canadian telecommunications provider Bell has unveiled its new all-fibre optic broadband network that has now been launched in Toronto. The network, costing Bell $1.5bn in investments, looks to connect businesses and homes throughout Canada's largest city with world-leading internetÃâà...
LightWave Online
April 10, 2018
Canadian operator Bell said it has launched its full fiber-optic network connecting Toronto homes and businesses with fast internet technology, and improved television and media services. The fiber project in Canada's most populated city is part of Bell's initiative to expand its broadband fiber footprint.
Albany Times Union (blog)
April 4, 2018
“From an economic development standpoint, a gigabit-speed fiber optic network would be a massive driver of efficiency and productivity, and it would provide cutting-edge infrastructure that allows the businesses that drive today's economy to thrive in Saratoga Springs.” The next step for the city will beÃâà...
Fortune
April 4, 2018
Google has previously said that its global network is connected by hundreds of thousands of fiber-optic cable. Japanese technology giant NEC Corporation and Alcatel Submarine Networks are helping Google with the latest cable laying project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2019,Ãâà...
ISPreview.co.uk (blog)
April 4, 2018
Telcom Networks has chosen the 160km long 'The Loop' fibre optic network from Gamma to deliver multi-Gigabit broadband and Ethernet data speeds to potentially hundreds of businesses across Manchester. Initially only 15 prominent buildings in the city centre will be connected but many more shouldÃâà...
San Francisco Examiner
April 3, 2018
San Francisco internet company Monkeybrains is among the firms competing to build and operate a citywide fiber broadband network. ... According to Monkeybrains' website, the company operates “a hybrid network of fiber optic and high capacity wireless links servicing over 5,000 locations with 25 newÃâà...
The Recorder
April 2, 2018
CHARLEMONT — For hilltowns that are too small and too steep for a cost-effective town-owned fiber optic network, WiValley of Keene, N.H., laid out plans ... Foucher said the latest wireless networks have less impact than using a cell phone does; however, those with sensitivities can lessen any impact byÃâà...
גלובס
April 2, 2018
Now it's official: Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Co. Ltd. (TASE: BEZQ) has submitted to the Ministry of Communications a detailed document that the ministry demanded on the company's intention to "switch on" its fiber-optic network. As "Globes" reported last week, the company has decided to proceedÃâà...
Digital Journal
April 2, 2018
The regional analysis of fiber optic cable assemblies market is being studied for region such as Asia pacific, North America, Europe and Rest of the World. North America is dominating the optical transport network market with the market owing to continued growth in mobile data traffic and the projected growth in dataÃâà...
nwitimes.com
April 1, 2018
The 72-strand single-mode fiber optic loop that includes the business areas of Chicago Avenue, Indianapolis Boulevard and Columbus Drive was completed in July at a cost of $1.7 million, and an agreement has been reached with Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co., or NITCO, to manage the network.
TechTarget
April 1, 2018
Fiber optics, or optical fiber, refers to the medium and the technology associated with the transmission of information as light pulses along a glass or plastic strand or fiber. A fiber optic cable can contain a varying number of these glass fibers -- from a few up to a couple hundred. Surrounding the glass fiber core is anotherÃâà...
fifthdomain.com
March 31, 2018
Britain's top military officer has warned that a modernized Russian Navy poses a threat to the undersea fiber-optic cable networks. ... Rossiya, a Russian state TV network, has said the Yantar can not only connect to top-secret cables, but could cut them and “jam underwater sensors with a special system.”.
Government Technology
March 31, 2018
(TNS) — An Indiana-based telecommunications company has started digging in some Lexington, Ky., neighborhoods as it installs a fiber-optic broadband network that it says will bring high-speed Internet and television competition to Fayette County. MetroNet subcontractors started work in January in someÃâà...
Vancouver Courier
March 30, 2018
Zouheir Mansourati, Telus' vice-president of broadband implementation, said planning is underway for deploying the network along existing overhead routes or digging trenches beneath roadways to run the fibre optic cable through conduit. He said the first homes and businesses should be connected byÃâà...
The Tri-City News
March 30, 2018
Zouheir Mansourati, Telus' vice-president of broadband implementation, said planning is underway for deploying the network along existing overhead routes or digging trenches beneath roadways to run the fibre optic cable through conduit. He said the first homes and businesses should be connected byÃâà...
Wicklow People
March 30, 2018
Using the existing ESB network, SIRO is delivered through fibre-optic cables which run alongside existing electricity connections, all the way to the building. This technology, known as fibre to the home (FTTH), has no copper connections at any point to slow down the network and delivers 1 GigabitÃâà...
LEX18 Lexington KY News
March 29, 2018
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) - If you see MetroNet people digging in your yard, don't panic! Those workers are constructing the city's newest fiber-optic network, which has already begun in neighborhoods north of Richmond Road, will touch nearly every street in the city over the next three years.
YumaPioneer
March 29, 2018
He added that KCI is upgrading its network backbone, which will increase the bandwidth available to Yuma customers. Speaking of which, only 42 customers have signed up for KCI in areas that already are wired with fiber optics, which are areas between Highway 34 and the railroad tracks. Of those 42Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
The network connectivity would benefit the city in the event the city needs to occupy one or more of these buildings in an emergency situation. It would also open avenues for potentially expanding the e-Watch program into the outlying areas. It has been noted that the West Royalty and Hillsborough ParkÃâà...
PennLive.com
March 26, 2018
Comcast announced on Monday that its business wing, Comcast Business has completed a large expansion of its fiber-based network in the Harrisburg area. The expansion has added more than 27 miles of new fiber optic cable in the Harrisburg area. The extensions, which are both aerial andÃâà...
The Saratogian
March 25, 2018
“From an economic development standpoint, a gigabit-speed fiber optic network would be a massive driver of efficiency and productivity, and it would provide cutting-edge infrastructure that allows the businesses that drive today's economy to thrive in Saratoga Springs.” SiFi Networks gave a presentation toÃâà...
Business Services
March 25, 2018
Fibre has excellent properties, which includes anti-electromagnetic interference smaller diameter, insulation, resistance to nuclear radiation and light weight. Fibre optic communication is the future of every network. With increasing demand for network speeds and bandwidth, fibre optic cabling certificationÃâà...
Hastings Star Gazette
March 24, 2018
The County of Dakota is requesting bids for the construction of a Dakota County fiber optic system in Lakeville MN. Sealed bids must be received by 2:00 p.m. on Friday, April 13,2018 at Dakota County Administrative Center – Taxpayer Services Window, First Floor, 1590 Highway 55, Hastings MN 55033.
GoErie.com
March 24, 2018
Velocity Network receives 10 to 20 calls a day from people who want VNET Fiber, the company's fiber-optic internet service. The potential customers live all over Erie County. Some say they aren't happy with their current internet provider, while others have no affordable high-speed internet options. ThoughÃâà...
Tahlequah Daily Press
March 24, 2018
The fiber optic network is so desirable, one zone that wasn't even proposed for fiber optics already is now connected. Around Sparrow Hawk Mountain, a couple of men from the community became the champions of the fiber optic cause. "They just went door-to-door and started getting people motivated andÃâà...
ISPreview.co.uk (blog)
March 23, 2018
Otherwise today's announcement is really more of a re-announcement because they already confirmed, back in 2016, that Project Lighting would ultimately result in their cable and fibre optic network being extended to reach a further 360,000 homes and businesses across Scotland (here). Hopefully theÃâà...
ObserverXtra
March 22, 2018
Arnold Stoll, owner of the local Internet provider Avetria Networks, is installing a fibre optic network for the village of Winterbourne. [faisal ali / the observer] To provide the fibre service, Avetria is partnering with the Foundation Christian School, which has an unused fibre optic connection already in place.
WRGB
March 22, 2018
The city has approved a bid with a company to install a fiber optic network citywide. Commissioner of Finance Michele Madigan said that the goal is for every home and business to have access to high speed internet. She said that this network would also attract more businesses to the area, allow the city to offer high speedÃâà...
Cayman Compass
March 21, 2018
Dissatisfied with the speed in which local telecommunications companies are expanding their fiber-optic cable networks to the island's under-served eastern districts, Premier Alden McLaughlin has announced government's intention to have the Utility Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg) build itsÃâà...
Telecompetitor (blog)
March 15, 2018
The fiber optic broadband network is now available following a multi-year effort by Quintillion to lay infrastructure and connect two undersea fiber optic cable networks. The connection increases capacity and builds redundancy on the subsea fiber optic system, which allows Alaska Communications toÃâà...
ValpoLife.com
March 15, 2018
The NITCO Chesterton Fiber Optic Network (CFON) Meet and Greet was an educational event for IT companies and IT professionals. NITCO, a telecommunications company based in Hebron, offered faster internet service and incredible fiber optic options to their clients. On that Wednesday evening at AJ'sÃâà...
YubaNet
March 15, 2018
We did want to get Google's attention, but really we wanted to see if our community might get excited about having a gigabit 100% fiber optic internet connection brought to homes and ... Google chose Kansas City, then a few more cities, then decided that building gigabit fiber optic networks was hard work.
MLive.com
March 15, 2018
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- AT&T announced it is now offering a fiber-optic network offering connections of up to one giga-bit per second in Grand Rapids and ... Between 2014 through 2016, AT&T said it has invested nearly $120 million in its wireless and wireline networks in the Grand Rapids area.
Albuquerque Journal
March 14, 2018
The acquisition includes 300-plus miles of fiber optic networks that sustain service to about 600 buildings. The company plans to immediately upgrade Level 3 network equipment to offer 100 gigabit capability. It will invest nearly $50 million in both those upgrades and in the APS contract, creating about 100Ãâà...
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
March 14, 2018
Kevin Lynch, CEO of Slic Network Solutions, brought a map to the village board meeting to show where the fiber-optic lines have been installed in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo — Glynis ... Slic will receive $26 million in state funding to expand its networks through northern New York. “Our business isÃâà...
ISPreview.co.uk (blog)
March 14, 2018
On top of that a number of councils are also using the anchor tenancy approach to build or extend new / existing fibre optic (FTTP) networks in order to ... The objective of this bid is to provide a local access full fibre network to provide Gigabit capable open access to public sector sites in Inverness, FortÃâà...
KFVS
March 14, 2018
MINER, MO (KFVS) -. People who live in rural parts of southeast Missouri have limited options for accessing the internet, and some have none at all. But a SEMO Electric Cooperative is helping solve the problem by building a fiber optic cable network called GoSEMO Fiber. The $40 million, five-phaseÃâà...
Santa Maria Times
March 13, 2018
Work is continuing on a fiber-optic project that will bring free Wi-Fi to downtown Santa Maria and could lead to further economic growth in the area by ... Wave Broadband, a gigabit broadband and fiber services firm, entered into an agreement with the city earlier this year to create a fiber-optic network ringÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 28, 2018
The Aurora City Council has unanimously approved a $75,000 grant from the downtown tax increment financing district to extend the city's fiber optic network to a number of downtown properties. But approval came after several aldermen admonished Michael Pegues, the city's chief information officer,Ãâà...
Eos
February 27, 2018
To make the ground motion measurements, the scientists used pulses of laser light traveling inside of a fiber-optic cable. The photons scatter off randomly distributed manufacturing imperfections inside the fiber and travel back to a light detector. Using a reference loop of fiber, the scientists could measureÃâà...
Kelowna Capital News
December 31, 1999
The Benvoulin Road section involves the installation of 1.6 kilometres of conduit to house the city's fibre optic communications network and is anticipated for completion on Friday, May 11. This section is one of five areas that make up the 2018 dark fibre conduit project being installed for a total budget ofÃâà...
LightWave Online
December 31, 1999
Lite Access provides fiber to the home (FTTH) and related optical access network installation services using its microduct and narrow trenching expertise. ... The company has been involved with deployment of thousands of kilometers of broadband networks across North America and the UK, and SouthÃâà...
