India’s Reliance acquires Yipes for $300M; Verizon Business launches new optical service

Opinion
Jul 18, 20072 mins

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India’s Reliance acquires Yipes for $300M, 07/16/07: Reliance Communications, one of India’s largest telecommunications companies, has announced plans to purchase U.S. Ethernet service provider Yipes for $300 million. The deal was completed Sunday.

Verizon Business launches new optical service, 07/16/07: Large businesses in the United States looking for high-bandwidth networks that can handle several technologies have a new option available to them with the launch of a dedicated optical network service from Verizon Communications’ business unit.

Implementing IPv6: Transition or Implementation?: IP routing expert Jeff Doyle continues his series on implementing IPv6 by discussing transition vs. implementation. Also: Mark your calendars for a live chat with Jeff Doyle on IP routing, Internet scaling, NSF, IPv6, BGP, time, space and the meaning of life.

A little WAN card could help Cisco go a long way: Cisco’s release of a WAN interface card with Sprint points to the enterprise network giant’s ambitions in the carrier market …

30 countries move to protect online consumers, 07/16/07: Spurred to find ways to protect consumers as online shopping grows, the 30 countries belonging to the international economic and social-development group Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) announced Monday an accord on dispute resolution.

Powerful earthquake disrupts Japan communications, 07/16/07: A powerful earthquake that struck northern Japan Monday morning has caused disruption to communications services in the country.