The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber optic backbone network.
The link used in the trial was on Vodafone's backbone network, passing through a few cities across middle and south Germany.
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Partnering with Woolworths in Australia, the virtual network will be providing the backbone of Woolworths new global network.
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Nicola Palmer, the chief technology officer of Verizon Wireless, said the carrier has been taking steps to prepare for new demand, including improving connections between cell towers and its network backbone.
The way to do this prior was to find out where the data center for an exchange was located and put your servers as close as possible and hopefully on the same network backbone.
China Unicom recently gave Lucent a billion-dollar contract to design and deploy an entire network, from the optical backbone to the circuits and wireless systems that will feed into it.
Over the last 20 years, Cisco has come to dominate the business of routers and switches--the specialized computers that shuttle packets of data around a network, and form the backbone of the Internet--and about two thirds of its revenue comes from sales of those devices.
The Denver-based communications company is laying approximately 18, 500 miles of Macro Capacity Fiber Network, an all-digital backbone that will connect over 130 cities by this March.
Verizon continued to demonstrate leadership in scaling the global IP network and kicked off the expansion of 100G IP backbone capabilities in the U.S. to nine routes.
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What would have been more interesting is to have the 4G spectrum administered in a similar way to other public utilities, where the actual backbone of the system is administered by one company, and the network providers would buy capacity and transmission from the network pool.
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