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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 service across its northeastern footprint, but the cable ...
Verizon overtakes Charter on US Carrier Ethernet leaderboard

Verizon overtakes Charter on US Carrier Ethernet leaderboard

Verizon has officially overtaken Charter-owned Spectrum Enterprises to third spot on the mid-year Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard by Vertical Systems Group, as AT&T ...
XO Acquisition Fuels Verizon Ethernet Growth

XO Acquisition Fuels Verizon Ethernet Growth

The latest Vertical Systems Group U.S. Ethernet Carrier ServicesLeaderboard has AT&T and Level 3 in the top two spots, respectively, but ...
Usual Suspects Lead US Fiber-Lit Building List

Usual Suspects Lead US Fiber-Lit Building List

In creating its first US Fiber Lit Buildings Leaderboard, Vertical Systems Group ran into an unexpected problem: The telecom industry ...
Comcast, Charter add 81K new business customers in Q2, ramp Ethernet reach

Comcast, Charter add 81K new business customers in Q2, ramp Ethernet reach

Ethernet continues to be a factor for Charter and Comcast. According to the cable industry, it’s the fastest growing provider segment ...
Fiber reaches nearly half of U.S. commercial buildings: Vertical Systems Group

Fiber reaches nearly half of U.S. commercial buildings: Vertical Systems Group

The percentage of commercial buildings connected to a fiber-optic network in the U.S. reached 49.6% in 2016, according to Vertical Systems Group ...
U.S. Fiber Penetration Reaches Important Milestone

U.S. Fiber Penetration Reaches Important Milestone

U.S. businesses in nearly half of commercial buildings now have access to fiber-based Internet. That’s according to the latest research from Vertical Systems ...
Cable the Fastest Growing Ethernet Segment

Cable the Fastest Growing Ethernet Segment

According to Vertical Systems Group, cable is the fastest growing segment in its Ethernet LEADERBOARD rankings. Spectrum Enterprise (Charter), Comcast, Cox, and Altice ...
Bringing High Quality Carrier Ethernet Training to the Industry

Bringing High Quality Carrier Ethernet Training to the Industry

Telecom Review: What can you share about the MEF-CECP Effectiveness Benchmark Study? Craig Easley, Carrier Ethernet Academy: It’s the first ...
Vertical Systems Group Publishes 2016 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD

Vertical Systems Group Publishes 2016 Global Provider Ethernet LEADERBOARD

The three leading Global Providers on Vertical Systems Group’s 2016 LEADERBOARD – Orange, Colt and AT&T – are working with ...
Carrier Ethernet Growing at a Web-Scale Pace

Carrier Ethernet Growing at a Web-Scale Pace

The market for Carrier Ethernet (CE) has come a long way in the last several years as protocols and technologies ...
AT&T, Orange, Colt to jointly develop SDN-based business API standards

AT&T, Orange, Colt to jointly develop SDN-based business API standards

“Our research shows that the number one issue impeding the delivery of on-demand services is the need for a standardized ...
Windstream Recognized for Strong Ethernet Growth

Windstream Recognized for Strong Ethernet Growth

Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network communications, today announced that for the second straight year it has climbed analyst ...
XO Communications Continues to Rank Seventh on Vertical Systems Group Ethernet LEADERBOARD

XO Communications Continues to Rank Seventh on Vertical Systems Group Ethernet LEADERBOARD

XO Communications, for a third consecutive time, ranked number seven among the top U.S. Ethernet providers on the Vertical Systems ...
Vertical Systems Group Names Windstream One of the Nation’s Top Ethernet Providers

Vertical Systems Group Names Windstream One of the Nation’s Top Ethernet Providers

We have spent the past two years investing heavily in our Windstream business technology, people and processes to give our ...
AT&T tops Vertical Systems Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard

AT&T tops Vertical Systems Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard

AT&T maintained top spot on the Vertical Systems US Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard, ahead of Level 3 and Spectrum Enterprise. The ...
Comcast Business Provides Enterprise Customers with Private Ethernet Connectivity to the Microsoft Cloud

Comcast Business Provides Enterprise Customers with Private Ethernet Connectivity to the Microsoft Cloud

“As businesses increasingly rely on cloud services to virtualize more of their IT applications, they require connectivity with measurable performance, ...
Colt expands US presence to battle AT&T, Verizon for multinational business customers

Colt expands US presence to battle AT&T, Verizon for multinational business customers


Colt’s aggressive expansion has enabled it to gain a second place standing on Vertical Systems Group’s latest Global Ethernet Leaderboard ...
Orange retains top rank in ethernet leaderboard update

Orange retains top rank in ethernet leaderboard update

Vertical Systems’s mid-year 2016 Global Provider Ethernet Leaderboard, adjusted based on mid-2016 share results, show little movement at the top ...