POWELL, WYOMING – Can you imagine getting fiber optic connected to your home for free? Fiber can deliver download and upload speeds hundreds of times faster than most high speed internet services, and every home in Powell will have it soon. It’s a city owned project. A machine dug an underground trench in a...
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We hope Verizon (VZ) boss Ivan Seidenberg doesn’t get his business news from French newspaper Le Monde, or he might have had a small stroke this week. In an article about French cable operator Numéricable, Le Monde apparently reported that Verizon was going to halt its $24 billion FiOS fiber-optic project because it...
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New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Assessment of Broadband Access Networks, finds that fiber optic networks, despite their high capital expenditure, are looking as an increasingly viable long-term solution for providing a sustainable customer experience without straining the network. If you are interested in an analysis, which provides manufacturers, end users, and other industry...
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Following the launch last year of CasaLight, an ITU G657-compliant bend insensitive fibre, Prysmian has introduced CasaLight Plus, an enhanced performance design that further reduces the minimum working bend radius to exceed the recommendations of G657.B. Prysmian says that while CasaLight will remain a standard fiber choice for FTTH applications, the availability of CasaLight Plus...
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Qwest Communications International, Inc. launched two super high-speed fiber-optic Internet services including Qwest Connect Quantum which provides DSL connection speeds up to 20 Mbps. This premium service is being introduced to residential and small business customers in 23 of Qwest’s top markets. Qwest Provides Fastest DSL Speed In response to customers’ requests for...
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Students in teacher David Killius’ fourth period advanced physics class at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent were visited Friday by a man who has already changed their lives in ways they might take for granted. Peter Schultz was 28 in 1970 and a researcher at for Corning Inc., the glass company in...
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Verizon Communications Inc. said its first quarter profit climbed by 9.8 percent due to strong growth in sales of domestic fiber-optic services. The company’s net profit rose to $1.6 billion or 57 cents a share from $1.5 billion or 51 cents a share in the previous year quarter. Its net revenue rose...
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The birthplace of the Web, Cern, which is based near Geneva, is now busy working on “the grid” that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical Broadband connection, and that may soon render the Web obsolete. The grid computing project was started around seven years ago by researchers at Cern. They...
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The United States is ranked 7th worldwide in a Networked Readiness Index in a new report issued by the World Economic Forum. The index is based on a variety of economic and political as well as technical factors. This is in contrast to last year’s OECD report, based on tighter criteria of bandwidth and connectivity, that ranked the...
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By a wide margin, Verizon continues to be the most powerful force in the re-wiring of North America, leading other telephone companies, local exchange companies, towns, developers and cable multisystem operators in connecting homes to new services with 100 percent fiber-optic links. Those are the key findings of a newly released study by...
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