Today's Top Stories Savvis, CenturyLink's (NYSE: CTL) cloud and data center subsidiary, on Tuesday announced that it has opened a new data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Marking its initial expansion into the continental European market, the new center will offer prospective enterprise clients all of its services, including colocation, managed services, cloud computing and network services. Bill Fathers, president of Savvis, said in a news release that "Savvis' data centre expansion into Germany signifies a major milestone in our plans to serve growing demand in the European market." The opening of the Frankfurt center should be of no surprise, as Savvis opened its German headquarters in the city in May. Savvis said that customers will be able to get low-latency access to over 150 global and local service providers in addition to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange trading systems. In addition to offering its Symphony Dedicated private cloud service, Savvis will begin offering its Symphony Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC) public cloud services early next year. Being able to scale in key markets like Germany makes Savvis and CenturyLink adds another competitive element to battle a of other international players like Deutsche Telekom (XETRA: DTE.DE), BT Global (NYSE: BT), Orange Business and Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) Terremark for more multinational corporation clients that either have operations in Germany or are planning to open an office there. Expanding its data center footprint continues to be a priority for Savvis, having added 220,000 square feet of domestic, international data center space in June. To date, Savvis has built out over 50 data centers, including four in the United Kingdom, Frankfurt along with locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more:
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DE-CIX, a Frankfurt, Germany-based Internet Exchange, on Tuesday selected ADVA Optical Networking's (XETRA: ADV.DE) FSP 3000 to connect its data centers with 100G metro channels. Built by network integration partner AXIANS Germany, this deployment will enable DE-CIX to migrate from its current 10G to 100G without any impact to its current customer base. While DE-CIX currently transports over 2 Tbps of peak Internet traffic, this network upgrade will enable it to better respond to current and new traffic surges that it says are constantly rising. Arnold Nipper, CTO at DE-CIX, said that "We're seeing a continuous increase in data traffic with a growth rate of about 80 percent every year, an increase that shows no signs of slowing down." Nipper added that the in-service migration and small form factor, were what drove it to chose ADVA's FSP 3000 100G platform. "ADVA Optical Networking's 100G Metro enables us to migrate our current 10G services while at the same time adding 100G capacity in the simplest manner possible," he said. "But it's the small footprint and the low power consumption of the ADVA solution that make all the difference: ADVA Optical Networking is simply the only vendor out there with 100G in this form factor." Unlike other vendors in the 100G race, namely, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) and Ciena (Nasdaq: CIEN), ADVA has opted to not leverage coherent technology but instead 4x28G direct detection technology. The vendor claims that using this method enables it to offer service providers like DE-CIX a more effective solution that's better designed for a metro environment where the distance between nodes are shorter than a long-haul network. For more:
- see the release Related articles:
Spread Networks adds 100G on its Chicago-to-New York route
ADVA Optical Networking posts record revenues in Q2
NYSE Euronext invites ADVA to its low-latency party Read more about: ADVA Optical Networking
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NBN Co., the Australian service provider tasked with building Australia's National Broadband Network, on Tuesday selected Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) to provide MPLS switching on routers and firewalls for its national connectivity network (NCN). Cisco will start work on the five-year, AUD 38 million (USD 39 million) project immediately, providing NBN with switching on Cisco-provided routers and firewalls. In addition to the routing equipment, Cisco said that its intelligent network technology will be deployed in NBN Co's depot, aggregation nodes and other key locations and will support the Operations Support System (OSS) and Business Support System (BSS) platforms, signalling and timing. Tony Cross, NBN Co's executive general manager of Network Architecture and Technology, said the Cisco gear will enable it to get a common view of how its wireline and wireless equipment is performing and more effectively troubleshoot issues as they arise. "This equipment will enable communication between NBN Co's centralized operational staff and IT systems with the fibre, fixed wireless and satellite equipment situated at various locations across Australia," he said. "The remote control of this equipment, via the NCN, will allow new services to be activated and faults to be diagnosed and repaired quickly and efficiently across Australia." Securing this win is big for Cisco as it further cements the San Jose, Calif.-based vendor's place in helping to build out the NBN. Previously, a Cisco-led consortium that included partners EMC and VMware won a contract in 2010 to provide data center services to NBN Co. With that contract, the consortium was tasked with building a platform that would enable the service provider to conduct essential functions such as network management, inventory management, customer care, billing, service provisioning and fulfillment systems, in addition to providing a web portal to support customer self-service and the corporate website. For more:
- see the release Related articles:
Cisco's fiscal Q4 revenues get boost from data center equipment, IP router sales
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IPTV seen as important to Australian media and entertainment industry's future
Aussie commission OKs deal between NBN Co, Singtel Optus
Cisco acquires Virtuata, beefs up cloud, data center capabilities Read more about: Australia NBN, Cisco
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eircom, Ireland's incumbent telco, on Monday unveiled the next locations for the third phase of its ongoing Fiber to the x (FTTx) broadband project. Set to be operational next year, the former state-run telecom will target 125,000 homes and businesses in eight counties across the country. Work on the third phase of the FTTX rollout will begin this winter and be completed by Easter 2013. Communities covered in this phase include Churchfield, in Cork City; Waterford City, Kilkenny City, Sligo Town, and Mullingar, in County Westmeath; Tralee, in County Kerry; Westport, in County Mayo; Crown Alley, Dolphin's Barn, Nutley and Beggars Bush, and Coolock, in Dublin City; and Balbriggan in County Dublin. Herb Hribar, who returned to the company to become its new CEO last month, said that phase 3 will now serve 40 locations with FTTx and about a total of 350,000 premises with speeds of up to 40 Mbps when the service becomes available next year. Since completing the first phase of the FTTx rollout, eircom now passes over 100,000 homes and businesses with fiber, providing 40 Mbps. When it completes Phase 2, which was announced in April, the telco will pass 250,000 homes and businesses in 27 communities. The fiber network is an open access network, meaning competitive telcos will also be able to deliver higher speeds to their customers. "We will continue to build this network to ensure that as many premises as possible will be able to avail of the new services provided by various operators when the network is launched," Hribar said in a SiliconRepublic article. This three-phase FTTx network will leverage a mix of both Fiber to the Cabinet (FTTC) and Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) networks that will reach 1 million homes by 2015. eircom's FTTx initiative runs parallel with the country's own broadband plan to provide a minimum of 30 Mbps speeds to every consumer and business in the country.   | | Source: eircom | For more:
- see the news release
- SiliconRepublic has this article Related articles:
eircom names CENX's Herb Hribar, T-Mobile UK's Richard Moat to leadership positions
Ireland's Rabbitte unveils ambitious national broadband plan
BT to conduct FTTC trial in Ireland Read more about: Eircom, Fttx
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FairPoint Communications (Nasdaq: FRP) on Monday named Barbara Dondiego as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO).
Reporting to Tony Tomae, executive vice president and chief revenue officer, Dondiego will oversee all of FairPoint's marketing functions, including product management, marketing communications, brand management and segment marketing. Dondiego comes to FairPoint from EarthLink, where she spent the past three years as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. This was a time when EarthLink began expanding its presence into the business services arena via a mix of organic initiatives and targeted acquisitions, including Dondiego's former company ITC^Deltacom. In addition to EarthLink and ITC^Deltacom, the majority of Dondiego's experience in telecom has been in serving in marketing roles at various competitive service providers, including the former WilTel, which was acquired by Level 3 (NYSE: LVLT) in 2005, and McLeodUSA, a company that was first acquired by the former Paetec and then later Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN). Bringing aboard an experienced marketing chief like Dondiego comes at a time when FairPoint is expanding its residential and business service presence in New England and its other U.S. markets. One of her big tasks will be to create greater brand awareness for both customer segments, not only in its New England territory but also in the diverse legacy markets it serves via a mix of its traditional copper-based wireline and cable facilities. For more:
- see the release Special report: Q2 roundup: ILECs wade through legacy-to-IP migration Related articles:
Vermont secures $3.1M to expand broadband availability
FairPoint prepays $25M on its debt
FairPoint extends DSL broadband to 14 more New Hampshire towns
UPDATED: FairPoint expands broadband availability in Vermont, other legacy regions
FairPoint voice-access line losses eat into Q2 revenue Read more about: personnel changes, Earthlink
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