5 posts and columns on fiber

Heads, We Call it “Brinternet”–Tails, “SergeyCom”

in News on February 10, 2010 at 9:04 am PT

For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about Google leasing hundreds of thousands of square feet of carrier hotel space, buying up dark fiber, mulling the purchase of hundreds of millions of dollars in DWDM and Ethernet-based telecom equipment and helping to build out a trans-Pacific multi-terabit undersea cable. Now we know why. Google is developing its own 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home Internet service.

AT&T: “We’re Closing the Gap” in New York and San Francisco

in Mobile on January 28, 2010 at 12:09 pm PT

AT&T’s overtaxed network has been the subject of considerable negative attention recently. No surprise, then, that the network figured prominently during the company’s earnings call this morning. The carrier everyone loves to hate would like us all to know that it’s making progress in New York City and San Francisco, two high-volume markets with equally high-volume complaints about AT&T’s wireless service.