Tag: dark fiber

October 16, 2020

There was a bit of fiber M&A out in the Pacific Northwest announced yesterday. InstarAGF has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LS Networks. LS Networks operates some 7,000 route miles of fiber in Oregon, Washington, and northern California. […]

July 30, 2020

MOX Networks has polished off another unique dark fiber network buildout, this time in the Pacific Northwest. It’s just 25 route miles of fiber connecting a half dozen key data centers in Hillsboro back over to Portland, but provides an […]

March 9, 2020

Telia Carrier is taking its SD-WAN capabilities to a new level. They have deployed a new advanced SD-WAN service based on Cisco/Viptela technology. The service enables enterprises to attach their own WAN overlay to Telia Carrier’s global internet backbone. That […]

February 25, 2020

Columbus, Ohio-based Horizon announced a new connection to Equinix’s Chicago data center, which is a major on-ramp for the Midwest. Horizon has connected its network backbone to the Equinix data center located on Cermak Road in Chicago in order to […]

January 9, 2020

While Realtors tout “location, location, location,” CenturyLink’s mantra is “fiber, fiber, fiber.” During Wednesday’s Citi 2020 Global TMT West Conference in Las Vegas, CenturyLink CEO Jeff Storey once again pointed out that his company’s competitive advantage is its fiber. Storey […]

January 21, 2019

UPN is building out metro depth in Allen, Texas. They had previously extended their network to the area, offering triple-lath redundancy to Dallas 25 miles to the south. The new expansion will provide a dark fiber ring connecting eight buildings […]

January 31, 2018

Corning is enhancing its fiber manufacturing facilities to meet ongoing demands from its key customers following a surge in fourth-quarter and 2017 sales from its large service provider customers. Verizon last April signed a $1.1 billion, three-year fiber and hardware […]

January 24, 2018

Verizon has embarked on a three-part strategy of leasing, acquiring and building out their own fiber routes, but the service provider says that building its own fiber is the best way to align new networks with its wireless and business […]

January 12, 2018

Wave Business, Wave Broadband’s business division, has connected 39 Modesto, California, school facilities to the district’s data center hub with dark fiber, giving the competitive provider a foundation to attract local businesses and other wholesale carrier customers. Like other local […]

January 11, 2018

Verizon is clearly not leaving any option off the table to procure fiber assets to support its growing wireline and wireless network business lines. With a network that serves multiple customer sets, the service provider has set a three-pronged process […]

December 28, 2017

Verizon has completed its $225 million acquisition of WideOpenWest’s (WOW) fiber network assets in Chicago, a deal that will help the service provider scale its network to accommodate wireline and its future 5G wireless deployments. Specifically, the acquisition secures fiber […]

December 12, 2017

Verizon’s plans to build out an expansive fiber network has driven Prysmian—one of the telco’s main suppliers—to initiate a $15 million expansion of its plant in Lexington County, South Carolina. This expansion will enable the company to make good on a […]

December 8, 2017

Frontier is taking a bullish stance on rolling out FTTH with plans to roll out service to 50,000 to 100,000 over the next two years. The service provider’s network expansion is just one of several moves it has planned following […]

December 8, 2017

Uniti says dark fiber and managed service small cell backhaul requests from the nation’s largest wireless operators in the Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets it serves are growing. Uniti Fiber has continued to expand its fiber network through a […]

August 31, 2017

Zayo has picked up a dark fiber deal from the finance vertical according to an announcement yesterday.  The Boulder-based fiber operator is providing a combination of longhaul and metro dark fiber to an unnamed U.S.-based multinational bank. As has been […]

August 30, 2017

Consolidated Communications sees the number of inquiries from large wireless operators for small backhaul solutions growing, as wireless operators make their networks denser to deliver higher speed 4G data and prepare for 5G.. Bob Udell, CEO and president of Consolidated […]

June 27, 2017

Zayo maintains that it is on track to increase its on-net bookings for the upcoming quarter, citing sales to local enterprises and wireless operators. However, questions remain about how the service provider will work with Verizon as the wireless operator […]

May 23, 2017

CenturyLink and Level 3 are confident that when they complete their multibillion-dollar merger later this year, the combined fiber network will enable the new company to more effectively compete against cable in the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market segment. […]

May 23, 2017

Verizon says that its “One Fiber” approach is going to simultaneously satisfy multiple consumer and business needs while offering an opportunity to get a more favorable return on total investment. Lowell McAdam, Chairman and CEO, told investors during the J.P. […]

May 22, 2017

Zayo says that the density of its fiber networks puts it into a good position to take advantage of small cell backhaul opportunities as they arise. Ken desGarennes, CFO of Zayo, told investors during the MoffettNathanson Media and Communications Summit […]