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Submarine Internet cables damaged by earthquake inTaiwan
A severe earthquake and a number of aftershocks have resulted in Chunghwa Telecom workers having to fix undersea fibre-optic telecommunications cables to prevent service disruptions around Asia according to NetworkWorld.
05/03/2010
Global Crossing to upgrade subsea network
IP service provider Global Crossing, is to expand capacity on its Atlantic Crossing 1 (AC-1 (R)) undersea fibre optic cable system.
20/01/2009
AboveNet expands its US high-bandwidth service into Austin, Texas
Fibre connectivity solutions provider AboveNet announced the expansion of its service to Austin, Texas.
09/01/2009
Work begins on undesea cable repairs
Work has begun on the undersea cables which were cut on 19 December disrupting Internet and telephone traffic to Asia and the Middle East.
23/12/2008
AboveNet completes upgrade to next generation IP edge network infrastructure
Fibre optic and IP transit connectivity provider AboveNet and Juniper Networks have finished AboveNet’s upgrade to a next generation IP edge network infrastructure.
23/12/2008
The Internet has been broken
Broken undersea cables have lead to the disruption of Internet and telephone traffic between Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
23/12/2008
Global Crossing positioned in challengers quadrant for pan-European network service provider
IP solutions provider Global Switch announced it had been positioned in the challengers quadrant in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Pan-European Network Service Providers” report.
22/12/2008
North Wales launches high speed fibre network
North Wales now has an open access fibre network enabling broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps.
27/11/2008
Tata Communications expands MPLS into South East Asia
Tata Communications announced the expansion of its global Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) services into South-East Asia.
07/11/2008
AboveNet's European IP backbone upgrade completed
Fibre optic and IP transit connectivity provider AboveNet, has announced the completion of their IP backbone upgrade.
27/10/2008
Verizon offers 10 Gbps carrier ethernet service
Internet provider Verizon Business has announced general availability of a 10 Gbps Ethernet service.
24/10/2008
AboveNet attains MEF certification
AboveNet has set a precedent by being the first fibre optic connectivity provider to be certified to MEFstandards.
21/10/2008
Switch and Data PAIX traffic Up 112%
Switch and Data revealed traffic on its PAIX Internet exchanges grew at around twice the rate of overall Internet traffic in the past year.
15/10/2008