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CIENA's CN 2000 Provides High Performance, Low Cost SRDF Extension for Business Continuance
White Paper FPL implemented CIENA's CN 2000 Storage Extension Solution which extends up to 16 Fibre Channel (FC), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), ESCON, and FICONTM applications across any SONET/SDH, WDM, or Dark Fiber... [10 Apr 2008]
Government deal for 'best buy' telecoms suppliers
News The 12 categories covered by the TNF include voice calls and lines, dark fibre, wireless data infrastructure, networking equipment and ISP services. The government has set up a bulk-buying framework... [02 Jan 2008]
University sends student internet down the drains
News The dark fibre sewer connection will provide broadband at the university's Hillhead student village halls of residence by replacing an existing microwave link between the main campus and the village. F... [17 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Fat cat telcos are killing the net
Comment They are streets ahead with populations already watching TV and listening to the radio over fibre to the home using IP. It's been so successful it seems the 'dark side of the force' sees an opportunity... [07 Jul 2006]
Salford Uni bets 20 years on NTL voice and data
News Dave Mailer, technical consultant at the University of Salford, said: "The main reason was to secure the dark fibre element. The University of Salford has turned to NTL Business for IP telephony and wide... [25 Nov 2005]
World's biggest grid seeks secrets of the universe
News Network bandwidth will also be key - at the moment it has a 2Gbps dedicated link to CERN - the same amount of bandwidth RAL uses for all the rest of its internet traffic, and the plan is to build a dedicated fibre-optic... [24 Nov 2005]
Google to launch VoIP service?
News Among the requirements for the job are "Negotiation and purchasing of IP transit services.negotiation of partnerships with internet exchanges, regional peering providers, and paid peering arrangements with major carriers" and... [24 Jan 2005]
Google job ad looks for the dark side
News Google is looking for Strategic Negotiator candidates with experience in.i)dentification, selection, and negotiation of dark fibre contracts both in metropolitan areas and over long distances as part of... [18 Jan 2005]
Storage over IP: The Next Generation SAN
White Paper It also provides a smooth transition path from today’s proprietary Fibre Channel SANs to standard IP and Gigabit Ethernet SANs. Transporting data between SAN islands, storage tunneling uses IP networks for SAN-to-SAN... [25 Feb 2004]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 2
Comment Bandwidth - fibre optic cable which in many cases had been built but had never been lit up - was probably as responsible as anything in the end for turning out the lights on the entire telecoms boom. Less than 4 per cent... [21 Jan 2003]
EMC and Dell shake hands on storage pact
News It uses a 2-gigabit Fibre Channel connection to send and receive data. I think Dell is very much of a dark horse in this market, in that it could be a strong and influential player because of the breadth... [12 Aug 2002]
Qwest CEO stands down
News The business recently came under the scrutiny of the SEC for making 'dark fibre' trades with Global Networks, where it swapped spare network capacity to fake demand for its services. Joseph Nacchio, CEO... [17 Jun 2002]
Metromedia latest to file for Chapter 11
News Metromedia Fiber Network has filed for bankruptcy after failing to come up with the funds to pay its creditors. The company has stated its operations will continue, though it will use Chapter 11 protection to reorganise. [21 May 2002]
Top ten deals of the month
News This one is a 10,000km fibre optic network in Italy - no value announced, which is worrying, but in Marconi's condition, it's great news nonetheless. There's still a lot of business being done, even in these... [01 Feb 2002]
Dodgy broadband dealing behind Enron fall
News US lawyers claim Enron's broadband division participated in dark fibre trading to make it look successful, while it made no money and cost over $2bn to create and maintain. Dark... [11 Dec 2001]
