The backbone of the internet is formed by a dense network of fibre- optic cables, each of which transports up to more than 100 terabits of data per second (1 terabit = 1012 digital 1/0 signals) ...

Five years ago, U.S. and European antitrust watchdogs blocked the merger of MCI and Sprint for fear their combined backbone would have such a dominant share of Internet traffic that it could force ...

It’s official: The carriers are not making money operating Internet backbones. Why should you care? Because defying the laws of economics is a bit like defying the law of gravity — it appears to work ...

Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind ...

The benefits of a resilient, fast and secure network backbone are well known to network operators and their wholesale customers. What’s less well known is that enterprises can also go direct to the ...