Telecommunications News For September....Level 3, Windstream, Earthlink, Megapath, tw telecom

Here's the latest news for the telecommunications industry for September.

* Level 3 - will be working with Hughes Cloud Services to extend service level agreements for the last mile to its clients' desktops.

* Windstream - now offers LifeSize Communications' video conferencing equipment alongside its IP networking services.

* West IP Communications - unveils MediaCloud, a hybrid environment for deploying Microsoft Lync throughout enterprises.

* EarthLink - Following the launch of its National Master Program July 19, EarthLink Business channel executive Sherri Turpin is sharing the goals for the program that she helped create and will oversee as vice president of channel strategy.

* MegaPath - announced the opening of a new field sales office in Phoenix to support its Ethernet over Copper (EoC) network expansion.

* tw telecom - tw telecom just released their new dynamic network product! Now a customer can turn up their bandwidth on-demand and only pay a metered fee for usage, and turn it back down when they are done. Here's a few tidbits you should know about tw telecom.....

- telecom offers MPLS, IP-VPN WAN, and Integrated PRI services
- tw telecom has more lit buildings than everyone but AT&T and Verizon
- tw telecom's customer retention is second to none
- tw telecom is financially strong - one of just a few profitable companies in the telecom space

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August Telecom Provider News ... Zayo, Level 3, Windstream & More

Here's some of the latest news from Telecom providers for August. Covering fiber, cloud based services, data center services, and more.

* Zayo - is adopting the AboveNet channel program virtually as-is now that its acquisition of the big bandwidth company is complete.

* EarthLink - announced the launch of its new National Master Program, which seeks to facilitate collaboration among EarthLink's channel managers, master agents and their subagents to drive sales.

* CenturyLink - announced an expansion of its fiber in the Charlotte metro area, adding a ring with connectivity into five data centers.

* AT&T - board of directors have given the green light to repurchase as much as $11.1 billion in stock, upping a share-buyback program the service provider launched in late 2010.

* Verizon - has closed its $612 million acquisition of HUGHES Telematics Inc., which the carrier says sets it on a course to speed up growth through the delivery of advanced automotive and fleet telematics and machine-to-machine (M2M) services.

* Windstream - Hosted Solutions has entered into an agreement with Nexcom under which Nexcom will use Windstream's line of cloud-based services to target small- and mid-sized companies with mobile workforces.

* Level 3 - is bringing its Dynamic Enterprise Computing, a new data center service, to Latin America.

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Telecom Provider News For July...Fiber Networks, Data Centers, Small Business Bundles, & More

Here's the news from the Telecommunications industry for July 2012 ..... covering fiber networks, data centers, small business bundles, and more:

* Alpheus - says it is expanding both its workforce and its fiber network to take on the enterprise market.

* Level 3 - Level 3 Communications has unveiled a new, enterprise-grade data center in Omaha, Neb. The company says the data center offers enterprises and government agencies a state-of-the-art infrastructure designed to support the power, redundancy, cooling and security requirements of today's IT applications.

* Integra Telecom - said it now boasts 2,013 on-network fiber locations and 115 customer builds since January.

* AT&T - has added another arrow to its IPv6 quiver by incorporating Cisco's Carrier-Grade Services Engine for its Carrier Router System product suite.

* Verizon - has finally revealed the pricing for its new Quantum Fiber to the Premises speed tiers, including its 300 Mbps/65 tier, which directly challenges cable operator's 50 and 100 Mbps DOCSIS tiers.

* Windstream - unveiled its new Professional Bundle for small businesses, which includes business-class Internet and unlimited phone service; 24x7 computer repair and replacement of broken components; Internet security; online backup of critical business data; plus a custom-built website for the customer and one hour of monthly design services.

* XO Communications - plans to expand metropolitan capacity across its nationwide network, according to one of its suppliers.

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Telecom Provider News For April

Here's the news from the Telecommunications industry for April 2012 .....

* AT&T - released new information regarding its fourth-generation LTE network rollout plans for the United States with expanded coverage coming to 12 new markets.

* Cbeyond - announced its new Remote Migration Service, which transitions businesses to the cloud without interrupting workflow.

* Comcast - introduced a hosted PBX service that it will use to drive more commercial voice revenues as it continues to head upmarket to take on the telcos target businesses with up to 250 employees.

* Level 3 - plans to establish a strategic relationship with Avaya in support of the AvayLive Connect Solution in the U.S.

* PowerNet Global - completes an overhaul on its core network, including additions of state-of-the art equipment and features that the company says ensure a better customer experience.

* XO - offers a new on-time installation guarantee on certain products as it seeks to bolster partners' confidence in the company.

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Telecom Provider News For December

Here's the news for December from the Telecommunications industry. Get the latest from vendors such as AboveNet, Comcast, Level 3, Telx, Time Warner Cable, and Windstream.

AboveNet - announced that its Core Wave services are now available to enterprise customers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.

Comcast - is on the verge of selling wireless phone service thanks to a partnership with the nation's largest mobile operator (Verizon).

Level 3 - announced it has expanded its network capacity and suite of services in Mexico.

Telx ....

* Telx announced a major expansion in Silicon Valley, where the company has leased 32,000 square feet of in a new data center being built by Vantage Data Centers in Santa Clara, Calif.

* Telx announced plans for its first "greenfield" data center project, a 215,000 square foot facility it is building in Clifton, New Jersey adjacent to its existing site at the Mountain Technology Center at 100 Delawanna Avenue.

Time Warner Cable Business Class - has been awarded a multi-year services contract from the State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), for providing advanced network and internet services to all state agencies.

Windstream - The Federal Communications Commission has approved Windstream Corp.'s acquisition of PAETEC.

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September Telecom Provider News

Here's the Telecom Provider news for September .....

AboveNet - announced it has connected its fiber optic network into the new Latisys Ashburn Colocation Campus in Virginia, Options Data Centres in London, and the first carrier tenant to reside at TELEHOUSE's new, premium data center facility at 85 10th Avenue, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan.

AT&T - The Federal Communications Commission may continue to monitor AT&T even after the carrier's merger with T-Mobile, suggesting an approved purchase could come with certain conditions. The FCC and Justice Department have signaled they will increase regulation in the telecommunications industry if they approve the merger. The announcement may mean the government may force AT&T and Verizon Wireless to keep their prices from rising to help prevent a duopoly, or even make AT&T sell some of its acquired spectrum to Sprint to keep the underdog company competitive.

Comcast Business Class- Comcast has added Michigan to its list of states - including Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Illinois and Florida -- where the cable ISP is offering services that support the next-generation Internet standard known as IPv6.

Integra Telecom....

* Integra Telecom will leverage Palo Alto Networks' platform to deliver its upcoming Cloud Firewall Service offering, which will include a mix of new security services, including everything from application visibility and control to URL filtering, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS), anti-virus, anti-spyware and file/data content filtering.

* Integra Telecom may be a fiber-rich service provider, but since it's not economically feasible to deliver fiber-based Ethernet to every building, it's complementing its fiber network with Ethernet over Copper (EoC).

Level 3 Communications....

* Level 3 Communications, Inc. and Global Crossing announced that, at separate special meetings, stockholders of both companies voted to approve Level 3's proposed acquisition of Global Crossing.

PAETEC - announced that it has successfully provisioned high-rate Ethernet services in excess of 200 megabits per second (Mbps) via its advanced Ethernet-over-Copper (EoC) network.

TelePacific....

* 360networks announced it has completed the deployment of capacity for TelePacific Communications into Chico, California. To support TelePacific's specific capacity and interface requirements, 360networks converted its Chico optical regeneration site into a point of presence (POP) site, able to support the needs of other customers as well.

* TelePacific Communications is launching national MPLS and managed services thanks to its acquisition of Telekenex, which is expected to close in the third quarter.

Time Warner Cable - will buy Insight Communications Co. for $3 billion in cash as it bolsters its presence in the Midwest, the company said Monday. The privately held cable operator serves more than 750,000 customers in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. It has about 537,000 high-speed data subscribers, 679,000 video subscribers and 297,000 voice subscribers.

Windstream....

* As Windstream continues its transformation into a broadband and business service provider, it has found another way to give its SMB customers more for their services dollar by upping their respective bandwidth speeds. Under the new speed regime, SMB customers can get their choice of 10 Mbps/2 Mbps, 24 Mbps/2 Mbps, and 24 Mbps/4 Mbps speed tiers.

* Arunas Chesonis, chairman and CEO of Paetec, will exit the company following its planned acquisition by Windstream which, if all goes according to plan, will mean a dramatically expanded service provider led by Jeff Gardner, current Windstream president and CEO.

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July Telecom Vendor News

Here's the latest news for select Telecommunications vendors for July ....

AboveNet ....

* AboveNet announced that it will connect to the Cervalis data centers located in Stamford, Connecticut and Totowa, New Jersey.

* According to an announcement made in the New York Post, Westchester-based fiber-optics company AboveNet has received a binding offer from a yet-to-be disclosed private equity firm. According to the article, AboveNet has been asking for a minimum bid of $80 a share, or more than $2 billion in a JPMorgan Chase-run auction. Yesterday, the company closed up 54 cents at $73.23 a share.

* AboveNet will soon connect to the Montgomery Westland Data Center in Alabama known as The Bunker.

AT&T - says it is on track to receive regulatory approval of its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA by March 2012. AT&T General Counsel Wayne Watts said that the company has provided a second round of information requested by the Department of Justice and that meetings with the Federal Communications Commission are going as scheduled, the Washington Post reported.

Level 3 ....

* Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced that it has added points-of-presence in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Zagreb, Croatia, giving customers in these areas a central point of secure and direct access to Level 3's highly scalable global network and a robust portfolio of IP-based communications solutions.

* Telx announced that Level 3 Communications is expanding network services into Telx's 100 Delawanna Ave. data center in Clifton, New Jersey.

PAETEC - announced it has selected Ditech Networks' PhoneTag platform for voicemail-to-text transcription services. Using Ditech Networks' best-in-class transcription service, PAETEC Visual Messaging customers can read transcribed voicemail messages from their smartphones and mobile tablet devices just as they would with an E-Mail, making communications simpler than ever before.

Smoothstone ....

* Smoothstone has launched Awareness Messaging and Presence (AMP), a multi-channel (voice, chat and collaboration) platform.

TelePacific ....

TelePacific Communications - announced a definitive agreement to acquire Tel West Network Services Corporation (Tel West).

Time Warner Cable ....

* New York: Time Warner Cable Inc., the second largest US cable television operator, agreed to buy cable systems in Kentucky and western Tennessee from NewWave Communications for about $260 million (Dh955 million) in cash.

* Time Warner Cable Business Class has launched Business Class Mobile, its 4G / 3G -based high-speed wireless data service in Wilmington.

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May Telecom Vendor News

Here's the latest Telecom vendor news for May ......

* AboveNet

o AboveNet, Inc. announced it has provided fiber connectivity into DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc (DFT) wholesale data center NJ1 located in Piscataway, New Jersey.

o AboveNet announced its successful completion of real world pan-European interoperability tests carried out by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) across Equinix's Carrier Ethernet Exchange (ECEE) platform between London and Frankfurt.

* AT&T - AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG on Thursday filed applications with the Federal Communications Commission to approve AT&T�s $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.

* EarthLink - EarthLink announced that it has completed the acquisition of One Communications Corp.

* Level 3

o Level 3 Communications Inc., agreed to buy Global Crossing Ltd. for about $1.9 billion to expand its network over three continents and reduce expenses.

o Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced that it is providing Verizon Wireless with backbone infrastructure and cell-site backhaul solutions to support its ongoing rollout of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network.

o Level 3 in Europe can now offer Dedicated Internet Access services from all IP gateway locations and is presently developing a new VPN and Managed Services portfolio. In addition, these international enterprise services will leverage the NNIs available to connect customers to the Level 3 Network at over 17,000 new locations throughout Europe.

o Internet2 and Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced a new, multi-year agreement to build a national network with an unprecedented 8.8 Terabits of capacity designed to support more than 200,000 community anchor institutions nationwide.

o Level 3 Communications, announced an agreement with INTERNEXA, a leading telecommunications carrier with extensive regional coverage with more than 18,000 kilometers of fiber-optic network across seven countries in South America, to expand Level 3's content delivery network (CDN) services to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru.

* MegaPath - Dan Foster is returning to MegaPath and will become their new President of Commercial Markets effective May 2nd. Bruce Chatterley, the former CEO of Speakeasy, who has served as President of MegaPath�s Commercial Markets since their merger, has departed the company to pursue other opportunities.

* PAETEC - PAETEC Holding Corp., announced that its newly acquired Intellifiber network and products are now available for PAETEC's channel partners to sell nationwide.

* Smoothstone

o West Corp., a voice and data provider based in Omaha, Neb., has agreed to buy Smoothstone IP Communications for $120 million

o Smoothstone IP Communications announced the launch of the Mobile Connect application for Android phones. Mobile Connect is an app that allows enterprises to extend the reach of their corporate communications services to mobile employees by connecting their mobile phones to the enterprise IP network.

* TelePacific - TelePacific Communications announced that it has received regulatory approval for and completed the acquisition of NextWeb, Inc., dba Covad Wireless, a broadband fixed wireless carrier operating in California, Nevada and the Chicago, Illinois area.

* Telx

o Telx, announced that iRiS Networks, a leading wholesale telecommunications provider headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., has joined the Telx Ethernet Exchange. Deployed within Telx's data centers in Atlanta and downtown Chicago.

o Telx announced the deployment of its award-winning Ethernet Exchange service at its data centers in Clifton, New Jersey, and Dallas, Texas.

o Telx announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with CoreLink Data Centers, a national provider of state-of-the-art data center hosting facilities and services for the management of mission-critical business applications.

o Telx announced that Pinpoint Network Solutions, a national provider of fiber optic and microwave transport, has joined the award-winning Telx Ethernet Exchange.

* Time Warner Cable - Time Warner Cable Business Class has rolled out an online backup service for businesses across its entire footprint.

* tw telecom - tw telecom has won a multi-year contract to provide Core NAP last-mile Ethernet services that will allow the data center provider to expand their reach in the Austin, Texas market.

* XO Communications

o XO Holdings, Inc. President and CEO Carl J. Grivner has resigned, the telecommunications company announced Friday.

o XO Communications announced an expansion of its metro network across the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, more than doubling its addressable market across the metropolitan area.

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Telecom Vendor News For April

Here's the latest news on various Telecom vendors for April .....

1. AboveNet - AboveNet is extending its network features through connections with interconnection services provider Neutral Tandem's Ethernet Exchange network. The first connection will be in New York City at Neutral Tandem's 75 Broad Street location.

2. AireSpring - AireSpring announced the launch of its new MPLS Mesh Multi-Protocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network (MPLS VPN) service. The AireSpring MPLS VPN service offers a better way to connect multiple locations onto a secure corporate network over multiple carriers.

3. AT&T - AT&T announced that it plans to buy T-Mobile, which would lead to the merger of the second- and fourth-largest mobile networks in the country. According to a press release from AT&T, it will pay $39 billion to T-Mobile USA’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom. The deal would give Deutsche Telekom an approximately 8 percent equity stake in AT&T and a representative on the AT&T board of directors.

4. Comcast - Comcast now offers its 100 Megabit per second high-speed Internet service to businesses in its Northern California and Richmond, VA., regions, positioning the DOCSIS 3.0-based services as much faster alternative to telcos' traditional T-1 lines.

5. EarthLink Business - EarthLink Business announced that it has completed the acquisition of STS Telecom, a privately-held business providing voice, data and internet services to small to medium-sized business customers in Florida and Georgia.

6. Level 3

* Level 3 announced it has added ultra-low-latency network routes to Milan and Zurich to its European financial services portfolio. The routes are available from London, Frankfurt, Madrid, New York City and Chicago. The routes further deepen Level 3's commitment to the financial services industry and provide financial exchanges and trading venues with access to all six major European financial centers as well as key U.S. centres over Level 3's international network.

* Level 3 Communications announced an agreement with INTERNEXA, a leading telecommunications carrier with extensive regional coverage with more than 18,000 kilometers of fiber-optic network across seven countries in South America, to expand Level 3's content delivery network (CDN) services to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru.

7. MegaPath - MegaPath announced that its Hosted Voice and Integrated Voice solutions were selected for the 2010 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year award.

8. NetWolves - NetWolves has launched the company's CostGuard OSS/BSS. NetWolves also moved into Info Directions' private cloud data center in order to leverage the company's SAS 70-hosting environment and comprehensive billing services support.

9. Qwest Communications

* Qwest says it has responded to the enterprise customer’s need to increase business value and improve quality of bandwidth connectivity. The new Qwest Ethernet solution provides what the company calls a highly scalable, highly reliable private-line solution to increase businesses’ efficiency and operational productivity.

* Federal regulators on Friday approved CenturyLink Inc.'s acquisition of Qwest Communications International Inc., on the condition that the combined phone company provide cheap broadband Internet access and computers to poor households.

10. Smoothstone - Smoothstone IP Communications announced the launch of the Mobile Connect application for Android phones. Mobile Connect is an app that allows enterprises to extend the reach of their corporate communications services to mobile employees by connecting their mobile phones to the enterprise IP network.

11. Telx

* Telx announced the rollout of an enhanced version of its self-service Web portal for customers of the Telx Ethernet Exchange. The Telx Ethernet Exchange Web portal enables quick, customized management of all aspects of the service, including discovery, order status, upcoming activity and trouble ticket activity -- all in a secure, easy-to-use platform.

* Telx announced that US Signal, a leader in fiber optic network services in the Midwestern region of the United States, has joined the award-winning Telx Ethernet Exchange.

* Telx announced that Pinpoint Network Solutions, a national provider of fiber optic and microwave transport, has joined the award-winning Telx Ethernet Exchange. Deployed within Telx's downtown Chicago data center, Pinpoint plans to leverage the Ethernet Exchange to cost-effectively enhance its Carrier Ethernet offerings and extend it global reach through a single, one-to-many network connection.

12. Time Warner Cable

* Time Warner Cable significantly increased its investment in sales support personnel to provide a more localized sales support approach.

* Time Warner Cable announced several new enhancements to their Business Class Phone product sold through the partner channel. Effective immediately, agents will have access to sell additional calling plans, directory listings, and remote call forwarding previously sold exclusively through their direct/retail channel.

* Time Warner Cable has announced the rollout of an exciting new program that will enable faster turnaround times during the pre-sales and quoting process. This trial program launched to its Master Agents will help you go to market faster when quoting opportunities that fall in one of the TWC 'OnNet' buildings. This change will speed response times to your customers and thereby increase the close ratio of the deals you quote TWC. For more information, please click here.

13. XO Communications

* XO Communications announced the launch of its Platinum Partner Program, offering upgraded support to agents and their customers.

* XO Communications announced an expansion of its metro network across the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, more than doubling its addressable market across the metropolitan area.

* Carl Grivner resigned as CEO of XO Communications.

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December Telecom Vendor News From Telarus

Here's the latest Telecom vendor news from Telarus ......

1. AboveNet .....

* AboveNet is extending its network capabilities through connections with CENX, Inc. The first connections are at CENX's New York sites where the AboveNet eXchange Hub service will be available to CENX's carrier exchange customers. AboveNet expects to expand to other CENX exchanges in top domestic and international metro markets.

* AboveNet has expanded its Metro Ethernet and dynamic Core Wave services in the London metro market. The new solutions will help meet customer demand for dedicated, high performance and high bandwidth solutions and facilitate seamless connectivity between London's business and data hubs.

* AboveNet is planning a strategic expansion of its data network by deploying new fiber optic based express routes in the Chicago metro area that will give rise to the lowest latency routes between downtown Chicago and the western suburbs. After the expected completion by mid-year 2011, routes between urban and suburban business hubs will prove to be the shortest data path available with high bandwidth capacity.

2. Level 3 Communications ....

* Level 3 Communications announced that it has been selected to serve as a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for Netflix, Inc. to support the company's streaming functionality and to support storage for the entire Netflix library of content.

* Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced that as a result of increased customer demand, it has added significant capacity and five new network locations to its content delivery network (CDN). The completion of the augment and installations has added 1.65 Terabits per second (Tbps) of globally available Level 3 CDN capacity. As part of the augment, Level 3 has also added two Canadian cities (Toronto and Montreal) and three European cities (Brussels, Munich and Hamburg) to its CDN.

3. PAETEC - PAETEC has announced three new cities with Ethernet over Copper coverage: Seattle, Denver and Phoenix.

4. Telx ....

* Telx and Interxion announced a strategic alliance designed to help colocation customers easily locate expansion space on the other side of the Atlantic. The alliance is focused on customers in the financial services industry, where the growth of electronic trading is prompting many players to seek a global footprint for their high-speed trading operations.

* Data center operator and colocation firm Telx announced on Friday that the first phase of its 13,500 square foot high-density expansion at its 350 E. Cermak facility in Chicago is now open for immediate occupancy.

5. tw telecom - tw telecom announced a major expansion of its fiber network in the metro Atlanta area. The expansion reaches more than 600 additional commercial buildings in business districts within the cities of Johns Creek, Suwanee, Duluth, Norcross, Emory University area, Decatur and Tucker.

6. Windstream ....

* Windstream announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with ABRY Partners to acquire Hosted Solutions Acquisition, LLC (Hosted Solutions) in an all-cash transaction valued at $310 million.

* Windstream announced the expansion of its unified communications services to nearly 100 new cities within Windstream's service area. Windstream's IP solutions combine voice, data and Internet services over the same connection. Windstream is expanding its VoIP and Data services to additional cities in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Georgia and Kentucky.

7. XO Communications - XO Communications has expanded its metro network coverage across Phoenix, part of an initiative the company says demonstrates its strategy to expand its presence in existing XO markets. The goal is to serve more enterprise customers with its IP-based communications, managed network solutions and exceptional customer experience.

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