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Telia Carrier, a leading Tier 1 Global Internet backbone provider, has added a third Point of Presence (PoP) in Switzerland. Collocated at Colozurich data center, the PoP will help Teleia Carrier meet the growing demand for connectivity and cloud services in Europe. The addition of the...
Research Business Internet Providers Access to high speed Internet is enabling Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) opportunities previously reserved only for large enterprises. Global market reach and access to cloud services that previously required exorbitant on premises infrastructure are now possible for SMEs. According to a...
T1 Lines: Why This Classic Technology Remains Relevant Today T1 lines (or E1 lines in EMEA) and their higher-order variants—T2, T3, and beyond—have been around since the 1960s. Despite the rise of high-speed broadband and low-cost connectivity options, T1 lines continue to serve critical roles in...
Go To GeQuote! GeoQuote is a free, real time carrier services pricing and locating tool. This article is a brief summary of GeoQuote and how it is used. There are over 3,000 carriers or broadband providers in the USA offering a wide range of connectivity and bandwidth...
Local ISPs appear to be falling over themselves in a rush to offer 10Gbps broadband Internet services to residential customers. We ask: why are they doing it? And: is 10Gbps really necessary for residential users? When the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee launched its own 1Gbps residential...
SEACOM, whose investment in a submarine fiber optic network connecting Africa to Europe and the Asia-Pacific triggered an avalanche of privately funded submarine cables in Africa, is mulling investing in the last mile. The SEACOM submarine network, with most of its landing points in East Africa,...
Industry leaders at the International Telecoms Week (ITW) conference held in May in Chicago addressed the need for accelerating the investment in infrastructure to facilitate Africa’s broadband growth. We must also add that human capacity building is important to ensure the development of cost efficient...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is a formidable cybersecurity risk threating companies, organizations, and government departments. Enterprises typically subscribe to anti-DDoS attack service providers since the volume of traffic from such attacks can be far beyond the capacity of the network under attack. However, the...
Slow speed Internet access is one the impediments to business productivity today. The problem gets exacerbated when businesses move some of their processes to the cloud. Today, about 87% of businesses have migrated some of their mission critical processes to the cloud or to a...