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Middle Mile Provider FiberLight Secures $105 Million Financing Package from CoBank
ATLANTA, GA – Dec. 5, 2012 – FiberLight, LLC announced today the securing of a new long-term syndicated financing arrangement lead by CoBank, ACB. The confirmed financial securement was for a senior secured note and…
Regional Fiber Network Chooses ADVA for Middle Mile Network
September 10, 2012 — ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Bluebird Network has selected the ADVA FSP 3000 for a government-stimulus-funded project that will enable the extension of broadband services to underserved regions in Missouri.…
Cable Company Chooses Adtran for Stimulus Project
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced that Troy Cable selected ADTRAN as a strategic partner to deliver a full range of carrier access and enterprise solutions for…
Special Access Fight Brewing
Industry stakeholders are lining up in support of or opposition to changes to special access price methodology proposed this week by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Currently large incumbent carriers have considerable flexibility in how they…
Verizon Announces 100G, Control Plane Initiatives
Big Red announced today it will build “additional control plane technology into its network infrastructure.” The 100G technology will enable various types of devices on its optical network to more easily communicate with one another,…
Frontier Taps Infinera for Metro Network
Frontier Communications said this week that it will deploy the Infinera ATN wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transport platform in a metro network in eastern Pennsylvania. The project will span 640 fiber route miles, connecting customers…
Michigan Middle-Mile Network Opts for Cyan Platform
Lynx Network Group, which is building an open access fiber network that will cover a large part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, has chosen a packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP) from Cyan to deliver native Ethernet services…
Level 3 Gets Some Broadband Stimulus Action
Dec 19, 2011 — BROOMFIELD, Colo., Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT), the Central Valley Independent Network (CVIN LLC), and the nonprofit Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC)…
Consolidated Electric Cooperative Building Stimulus Funded Middle Mile Network
Ohio-based Consolidated Electric Cooperative was in the news today because it selected ADTRAN to provide equipment for the 166-mile fiber network it plans to build, funded in part, through the broadband stimulus program. The announcement…
Maryland Middle Mile Project Picks Infinera
Sunnyvale, CA and Annapolis, MD – Oct. 20, 2011 – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) and the Maryland Broadband Cooperative announced today at the Maryland Broadband Annual Members Meeting and among Maryland government officials the launch of…
HickoryTech Subsidiary Enventis Starts Construction on Middle Mile Stimulus Project
Enventis, a subsidiary of HickoryTech, has begun construction on its broadband stimulus-funded project that will extend the company’s middle mile fiber optic network across Minnesota. The company last year won a $16.8 million grant to…
Earthlink Leverages Broadband Stimulus Money for Middle Mile Network
Earthlink announced today that it has completed the second phase of a three-phase middle mile network construction project in Tennessee for which the company won a $9.4 million broadband stimulus grant. The grant was awarded…