• Carrier Channel: Managing Global Traffic Growth
    Posted: 04/2000 Managing Global Traffic Growth By David WestYou may have heard the punch line: "We lose a little bit on every sale, but we hope to make it up in volume."Unfortunately, many carriers manage their networks this way. They lose money on some of their traffic, as ...More
    April 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Williams Communications to Extend Long-Haul Fiber Network
    Posted: 04/2000 Williams Communications to Extend Long-Haul Fiber Network By Khali HendersonCarriers' carrier Williams Communications (www.williamscommunications.com) will extend its broadband fiber optic network to carrier customers in 50 top U.S. markets as part of a new ...More
    April 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • Business News - Williams to Trade on Commodities Experience
    Posted: 04/2000 Williams to Trade on Commodities Experience By Ken Branson and Khali HendersonWilliams' communications arm, Williams Communications Group Inc. (www.williamscommunications.com) announced in mid-February that it has formalized a strategy for bandwidth trading ...More
    April 1, 2000 By Khali Henderson
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  • 21st Century Commerce Hubs
    Posted: 04/2000 21st Century Commerce Hubs Teleports Help Carriers, ISPs Go Global By James R. Dukart Teleports--they may sound like something out of "The Jetsons" or "Star Trek," but chances are one is being built somewhere near you. The savvy carrier who offers ...More
    April 1, 2000
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  • Not Necessarily News
    Posted: 04/2000 Overheard ... ... at January's Pacific Telecommunica-tions Council (PTC) in Honolulu, Hawaii. "I've seen certain phrases find their way into papers, like 'the permanent nature of demand.' As an economist, that drives me crazy. Is there an ability to ...More
    April 1, 2000
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  • Business News - Rhythms Teams With Level 3 to Market IP Broadband Services
    Posted: 04/2000 Rhythms Teams With Level 3 to Market IP Broadband Services By Khali Henderson Rhythms NetConnections Inc. (www.rhythms.com) has allied with Level 3 Communications Inc. (www.level3.com) to market "any-distance" bundled IP services, featuring high-speed local ...More
    April 1, 2000
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  • Resale Channel: Wholesale Market Caught in Cyclone of Innovation
    Posted: 04/2000 Resellers Rate Wholesale Carriers By Dr. Judy Reed Smith and Taher BouzayenAs Internet usage and data services push network demand to record levels, the ability to meet customers' desire for fiber service is the major challenge facing wholesale long-distance ...More
    April 1, 2000
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  • Business News - General Bandwidth Prepares to Take On Voice Over All Broadband
    Posted: 04/2000 General Bandwidth Prepares to Take On Voice Over All Broadband Peter LambertLECs, cable operators and broadband wireless operators are poised to undercut the economics of local telephony access, and startup vendor General Bandwidth Inc. says it can supply a ...More
    April 1, 2000
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  • Who's Asleep at the e-Wheel
    Posted: 04/2000 Who's Asleep at the e-WheelThe thought of reading or writing another word about e-commerce makes me want to puke. But alas, anyone in this industry--heck, anyone who watched this year's Super Bowl commercials--knows that e-commerce is the future. The Gartner ...More
    April 1, 2000
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  • INTERNET IN A BOX
    Posted: 04/2000 INTERNET IN A BOX New Network Edge Devices Deliver Sophisticated IP Services Internet services used to be so simple. By Charlotte Wolter A provider was a direct link to the Internet. Whatever bandwidth a user could muster to get to the ISP--usually a ...More
    April 1, 2000
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