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Optical protection switches boost availability, 07/10/06
High-bandwidth networks use fiber links to carry large volumes of mission-critical traffic. Outages often result in large financial losses, so carriers and enterprises have used a variety of mechanisms, such as SONET rings in the core and MPLS in the …
BellSouth expands wireless broadband, 07/06/06
BellSouth is expanding its wireless broadband service into five new markets.
WAN Newsletter: What the Cheshire cat knows about your network architecture, 07/06/06
In the last WAN newsletter, we discussed the fact that many companies don’t have a network architecture. We also discussed the fact that many of …
Report: AOL considers offering services for free, 07/06/06
AOL is looking at offering its services, including e-mail, for free to customers with a broadband Internet connection, according to a news report.
Verizon sues county for cable franchise process, 07/05/06
Verizon Communications has filed a lawsuit against Montgomery County, Maryland, accusing the county government of making unreasonable demands in the telecom giant’s attempt to obtain a cable-television franchise.
Telstra threatens to scrap $2.2 billion broadband network, 06/30/06
The head of Australia’s largest telecommunications company has threatened to scrap an A$3 billion ($2.2 billion) national high-speed, fixed-line broadband network.
