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Business Fiber Deployment Accelerates with New Competition and Investment-Friendly Policies

Business Fiber Deployment Accelerates with New Competition and Investment-Friendly Policies

Thanks to ongoing efforts by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under Chairman Pai’s leadership to facilitate investment and accelerate the ...
Spectrum Enterprise Fiber Investment Will Help Maintain 50 Fiber-Lit Building Per Day Momentum

Spectrum Enterprise Fiber Investment Will Help Maintain 50 Fiber-Lit Building Per Day Momentum

Last month, Vertical Systems Group released its updated LEADERBOARD. The firm found that Spectrum Enterprise had the third most on-net ...
Closing the Enterprise Fiber Gap

Closing the Enterprise Fiber Gap

Across the U.S., almost all enterprise buildings with 250 employees or more are fiber-lit, while less than half of buildings ...
CenturyLink’s John DeLozier: ‘Amazing’ Returns on Level 3 Investment

CenturyLink’s John DeLozier: ‘Amazing’ Returns on Level 3 Investment

...So far, the acquisition has allowed CenturyLink to surpass AT&T in Vertical Systems Group’s year-end 2017 U.S. Incumbent Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard ...
Being an Ethernet leader Makes Sense for a Modern Networking Company

Being an Ethernet leader Makes Sense for a Modern Networking Company

Comcast Business has once again been named to Vertical System Group’s Year-End 2017 U.S. Carrier Ethernet LEADERBOARD and achieved the highest organic ...
Windstream Recognized for Strong Ethernet Growth

Windstream Recognized for Strong Ethernet Growth

Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network communications, announced that for the third straight year it has climbed analyst firm ...
CenturyLink, Frontier make big Ethernet moves as Charter and Comcast become bigger threats

CenturyLink, Frontier make big Ethernet moves as Charter and Comcast become bigger threats

CenturyLink recently took the Ethernet industry segment by storm when it surpassed AT&T as the top Ethernet position in terms ...
CenturyLink, Spectrum Enterprise, Cogent Top Latest Ethernet Rankings

CenturyLink, Spectrum Enterprise, Cogent Top Latest Ethernet Rankings

CenturyLink's acquisition of Level 3 Communications allowed the company to power its way to the top of Vertical Systems Group’s year-end 2017 ...
CenturyLink claims top spot on US Ethernet leaderboard

CenturyLink claims top spot on US Ethernet leaderboard

CenturyLink has captured the number one spot on Vertical Systems Group’s latest leaderboard of US Ethernet market-leaders ...
CenturyLink Vaults to Top of U.S. LEADERBOARD

CenturyLink Vaults to Top of U.S. LEADERBOARD

CenturyLink has captured the #1 spot on Vertical Systems Group's latest LEADERBOARD of U.S. Ethernet market leaders. It is the ...
CenturyLink steals AT&T’s top Ethernet crown following Level 3 acquisition

CenturyLink steals AT&T’s top Ethernet crown following Level 3 acquisition

CenturyLink has overtaken AT&T’s nearly 13-year reign as the top domestic Ethernet provider in the United States, a feat it ...
After Level 3 Buy, CenturyLink Leapfrogs AT&T in Ethernet Rankings

After Level 3 Buy, CenturyLink Leapfrogs AT&T in Ethernet Rankings

CenturyLink has taken the top spot from AT&T on Vertical Systems Group’s year-end 2017 U.S. Carrier Ethernet Services Leaderboard ...
AT&T hits 400K business buildings with fiber, increases near-net footprint

AT&T hits 400K business buildings with fiber, increases near-net footprint

When it comes to on-net fiber in business buildings, AT&T is clearly in a unique class. Vertical Systems Group revealed ...
M&A ‘Driving’ U.S. Fiber Landscape

M&A ‘Driving’ U.S. Fiber Landscape

AT&T has made the most fiber connections in the U.S., according to a new study. Vertical Systems Group compiled its first ...
Apstra, Cohesity, Darktrace, Javelin Networks, NetFoundry, OnDot and Prof. David Cheriton triumph at NetEvents 2017 Innovation Awards

Apstra, Cohesity, Darktrace, Javelin Networks, NetFoundry, OnDot and Prof. David Cheriton triumph at NetEvents 2017 Innovation Awards

The winner of the Innovation Leader - IoT Award – presented by Erin Dunne, Director of Research Services, Vertical Systems Group – ...
Sprint deepens U.S. carrier hotel presence, enhances MPLS, SD-WAN reach

Sprint deepens U.S. carrier hotel presence, enhances MPLS, SD-WAN reach

Sprint is building new Points of Presence (PoPs) in the nation’s largest carrier hotels, enabling the service provider to achieve ...
Top 3 hold steady on mid-year 2017 Global Provider Ethernet Leaderboard

Top 3 hold steady on mid-year 2017 Global Provider Ethernet Leaderboard

Vertical Systems Group has released its mid-year 2017 rankings of global Ethernet service providers, and there's not much new at the top ...
Windstream Advances Position in Vertical Systems Group’s U.S. Ethernet Market Ranking for Third Year in a Row

Windstream Advances Position in Vertical Systems Group’s U.S. Ethernet Market Ranking for Third Year in a Row

Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network communications, today announced that for the third year in a row it has ...
MEF/ ATIS Carrier Ethernet Standard Targets Inter-carrier Ordering

MEF/ ATIS Carrier Ethernet Standard Targets Inter-carrier Ordering

MEF and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions released a standard aimed at making it easier to order Carrier Ethernet services ...
Comcast Business says DOCSIS 3.1, fiber will enable its hybrid MPLS, SD-WAN play

Comcast Business says DOCSIS 3.1, fiber will enable its hybrid MPLS, SD-WAN play

Comcast Business has set an aggressive path to expand its DOCSIS 3.1-based internet serviceacross its northeastern footprint, but the cable MSO ...