AT&T is making another big push into the CDN market, leveraging its existing network infrastructure along with CDN software from Edgecast to offer content delivery services to its large base of Fortune 1000 clients. The new offering will include a massive boost in capacity and storage. Read more »
Level 3 Communications agreed to buy Global Crossing in a transaction worth $3 billion. The deal is a sign of consolidation as broadband becomes the connecting fabric of our lives. But the question isn’t why this deal between two telecommunications backbone providers happened, but why now? Read more »
Global Crossing has acquired Genesis Networks in a deal that will expand its ability to serve media customers looking to distribute video over its backbone network, as well as verticals such as healthcare, government and distance learning, which rely on high-quality distribution of rich media online. Read more »
In order to deliver 2,430 live baseball games, Major League Baseball needed a robust network to ensure that all the news, highlights, statistics and high-definition video being sent out from stadiums could reach its customers. And it turned to Global Crossing to build that network. Read more »
Global Crossing, the provider of bandwidth and IP-based services to corporations around the world, today reported fourth-quarter and full-year results that included a 6 percent boost in revenue and lowered losses for the year. I talked to CEO John Legere about its prospects for growth. Read more »
[qi:046] Level 3 stock might be trading below a buck, and its future might be cloudy, but the company has to be thrilled with this news from Renesys, an Internet monitoring company, which claims it’s the largest IP network in the world, ahead of Sprint, which […] Read more »
Sure it’s not like back in the early 2000s, when those crooks from Enron were driving the prices of bandwidth down into the ground, but even today prices on Internet bandwidth continue to fall. If you are a consumer, however, there’s a good chance you’re wondering […] Read more »
