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Birch Buys Struggling Lightyear

The Kentucky-based company, founded by Sherman J. Henderson III, soon will be a name relegated to the competitive telecom history books. Read more ...read more

Understanding Security Architectures

In this Business Value Toolbox video, we break down three key security technologies – identity access management, encryption and network segmentation ...read more

Targeting Vertical Markets w/ Cable

This Pulse Digital Issue highlights five industry sectors – financial services, health care, hospitality, restaurants and bars, and retail – that are ...read more

WTG Hosts the 2013 Tee & Sea Event

Take a look at our gallery highlighting the attendees and activities of WTG's event at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa. Click through it ...read more

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Winner Takes Enough: Competing withGiants

Posted: 01/2000 Winner Takes Enough: Competing with Giants By Karen Strouse While it can seem an insurmountable task to take on the world's largest telecommunications companies, many small-to-medium-sized companies have done so successfully. Some of these small companies ...More
January 1, 2000
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BroadWing Takes Flight -- But How High?

Posted: 01/2000 BroadWing Takes Flight -- But How High? By Ken Branson "The world's no longer driven by the big eating the small; it's now the fast eating the slow," says Rick Ellenberger, president and CEO of BroadWing Inc. Ellenberger believes that BroadWing ...More
January 1, 2000
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Meshing Voice and Data at the 'NewEdge'

Posted: 01/2000 Meshing Voice and Data at the 'New Edge' Toward Seamless Multiservice Networks By Richard Connaughton The first humanoid who picked up a rock and used it as a tool hardly could have imagined how this simple act ultimately would lead to the tools we take for ...More
January 1, 2000
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NEWS BRIEFS

Posted: 01/2000 NEWS BRIEFS? WorldxChange Communications (www.worldxchange.com) has a new agent program called xPECTATIONS, which offers agents a variety of discounted programs to residential and business customers almost anywhere in the United States. Elite representatives ...More
January 1, 2000
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Carriers Help Customers Cut Cord

Posted: 01/2000 Carriers Help Customers Cut Cord By Shelly Tyler Service providers are looking to differentiate their services, reduce churn, increase average revenue per user and attract new, high-value customers. One way carriers can achieve all these goals is to offer ...More
January 1, 2000
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Carrier Channel: News Briefs

Posted: 01/2000 News Briefs Broadview Networks (www.broadviewnet.com), an ICP serving the Northeast, has announced a service plan for residents in New York that offers a flat-rate package for local, regional and long distance calling and Internet access. The Broadview No ...More
January 1, 2000
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Small-Town Telecom Provider Battles AT&Tin $60 Million Suit

Posted: 01/2000 Small-Town Telecom Provider Battles AT&T in $60 Million Suit By Kim Kelliher A small-town phone service entrepreneur is making legal headway against AT&T Corp. (www.att.com) in a $60 million lawsuit that accuses the industry giant of unfair trade ...More
January 1, 2000
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Megamerger May Choke Wholesale Supply

Posted: 01/2000 Megamerger May Choke Wholesale Supply I must admit that when I first heard about the prospects of the MCI WorldCom Inc.-Sprint Corp. merger, it didn't excited me. As a consumer, I felt it wouldn't do me any good to have two of the largest competitors on the ...More
January 1, 2000
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Telecommodities Indices

Posted: 01/2000 Have U.S. East-West Bandwidth Prices Bottomed? The Real-Time Bandwidth eXchange*Revealed Price Index (RTBX*RPI), which tracks the current weighted average price, is applied to DS-3 bandwidth for major U.S. east-west routes in the accompanying chart for ...More
January 1, 2000
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Lucent Unveils Breakthrough OpticalCross-Connect

Posted: 01/2000 Lucent Unveils Breakthrough Optical Cross-Connect By Charolette Wolter Optical networking took a major step forward as Lucent Technologies Inc. (www.lucent.com) introduced a truly optical cross-connect, the Wave-Star LambdaRouter, that switches wavelengths ...More
January 1, 2000
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