This all-fiber network will deliver broadband voice, and IPTV services to remote rural areas.
Doing it right the first time allows them to upgrade the speeds easily over its fiber network.
In all, there will be 48 data centers as well as a 270, 000 route mile fiber network.
His most recent job had been overseeing the construction of a nationwide fiber network at ICG Communications.
This concentration could get even worse, for WorldCom is trying to acquire Sprint and its 48, 000-kilometer fiber network.
This concentration could get even worse, for WorldCom is trying to acquire Sprint and its 30, 000-mile fiber network.
Thompson's ultimate goal is to build a 5, 500-mile regional fiber network sprawling across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The company is already experimenting with its one-gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, offering lightening-fast broadband and TV services.
Verizon's legal negotiations with Smithtown's government started in July after the company had built a "significant amount" of its fiber network.
Thompson's ultimate goal is to build a 8, 900-kilometer regional fiber network that will sprawl across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Already El Paso owns the second-largest fiber network in Houston, with connections to every central office switch operated by regional phone giant SBC Communications.
Chattanooga, Tennessee built out a gigabit fiber network that has helped attract businesses like Amazon and Volkswagen, creating more than 3, 700 local jobs.
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The Denver-based communications company is laying approximately 18, 500 miles of Macro Capacity Fiber Network, an all-digital backbone that will connect over 130 cities by this March.
Google said that it would be upgrading an already-existing fiber network in Provo that does not offer gigabit speeds, by purchasing iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city.
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This will make Provo the third big city to host a Google Fiber network, providing Internet speeds up to 100 times faster than those available for the average American.
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In fact, a sizable community fiber network reported to me that peering with a major source of video traffic dropped their monthly costs by tens of thousands of dollars.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) mulled rolling out Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP, features to its new fiber network, which Google began lighting up last month, said Milo Medin, vice president of Google Access Services.
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Some 18, 000 miles of cable and 30, 000 phone lines snake through its New York headquarters, linked to offices around the world by a fiber network that can zap data at 6.1 gigabits per second.
Today VTel confirmed that 600 out of the 17, 500 households it covers in Vermont could access its new, 1Gbps fiber network, adding to the small minority of Americans on Internet speeds that are 100 times faster than the average connection.
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The City, the University and Gigabit Squared have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and a Letter of Intent that allows Gigabit Squared to begin raising the capital needed to conduct engineering work and to build out the demonstration fiber network.
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This is made possible by a new content storage and distribution system via Comcast's extensive fiber network and enables the company to offer significantly more content in the near future, including TV series, kids content, music and other special programming.
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Merely hours after Google and the city of Austin jointly made clear that Google Fiber would be hitting up local homes in mid-2014, Ma Bell has made public its "intent" to built a 1 Gigabit fiber network in the same area.
"The only way to get access to their part of the Net is to pay them a tithe, and to that extent it's a classic monopoly, " says Paul Vixie, head of Internet services for Metromedia Fiber Network, which is building its own network.
At the same time, Google also recently launched its own fiber optic network to provide Internet access in Kansas City.
That would, of course, only be true if two conditions apply: First, the people who own the fiber optic network are willing to have our armed forces utilize their cable.
The material uses what the researchers are calling 'shape-memory' polymers and have a fiber optic network embedded within them which acts as the damage sensor as well as the heat delivery system.
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Teams worked from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. over the past few months to install the fiber optic network, choosing late night hours in order to have minimal impact on bridge traffic.
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"A currency trader who spotted a big deal could calculate the benefits of a trade and execute it before anyone else knew what was going on, " says Lewis Wilks, who oversees Internet applications at Qwest, a major fiber-network builder.
We also documented license applications made in both Kansas and Missouri that would allow GOOG to deliver the programming across the 1Gbs fiber optic network it is building out on both sides of the state line in Kansas City.
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The company installed 63 additional Private IP edge routers for a total of 915 edge routers in 245 sites throughout 63 countries, activated more than 1, 500 kilometers (932 miles) of ultra-long-haul network across the southern part of the United Kingdom, and completed a joint fiber build in Singapore, which almost doubles the coverage of the Singapore fiber-optic network.
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