AT&T follows rival Verizon in tapping Corning to satiate fiber fetish
New multi-year deal is valued at more than $3 billion
News - Fiber Backhaul & Transport
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Nokia, Orange claim optical network 'health scan' success with Bell Labs AI magic
Tomography trial touted for AI infra success
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Verizon powers American AI with billions-strong Corning fiber deal
Multibillion-dollar deal takes in 80-plus million miles of high-density optical fiber
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HPE stack serves Spurs stadium refit: VMware out, Juniper pending
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium expands HPE partnership with VME over Broadcom and Wi-Fi 7 in place of private 5G
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T-Mobile US cut more than 4,500 jobs in 2026 as Deutsche Telekom drives modernization
Vendor's multiple acquisitions consolidated in first half of the year
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Startup bags $10.7M to hit 2.4T space laser transmissions
2-month old EON emerges from stealth in quest to break space optical transmission records and rival undersea cable speeds
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Lumen Q2 financials pitch NaaS, satellite as future networks as old ones keep hyperscale appeal
Latest earnings see AI and neocloud boost, but jury out on exact Alkira expectations
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Alkira CEO on Lumen deal: Lightning fast acquisition 'made sense' over IPO
Cisco and Viptela veteran Amir Khan also reveals what customers should expect from a more 'wonderful' integration
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AI data center and neocloud expansion fueling dark fiber demand: report
Zayo analysis reveals metro demand surged 20-times in ‘AI-driven’ hubs while new fiber sales tripled
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Taara launches optical link planner in latest moonshot
Alphabet spin-out beams connectivity over the air
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Lumen lights up network upgrades for Yankees Stadium
Lumen connects the stadium via two 100-gig fiber paths from Tampa
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Zayo Group names former Verizon exec Sowmyanarayan Sampath as CEO
As Steve Smith will retire at the end of August
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Lumen guts channel staff in AI and data center pivot: report
Partner division sees heavy cuts while voice sales are shuttered going forward
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Lumen completes Alkira acquisition for cloud networking dominion
The $475 million deal expands Lumen's footprint in cloud-to-cloud and data center-interconnect space
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Nokia to develop fiber sensing technologies with European leader
Finnish vendor to collaborate with Italy's FiberCop
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AWS injects AT&T into Interconnect connection cadre
The integration ties AT&T’s network into AWS Interconnect service
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Tata Communications announces India-Singapore subsea cable investments
Connecting Mumbai-Singapore and Chennai-Singapore
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New Baltic Sea subsea cable planned
Amber Cable project in very early stages
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European telco giant wins $12M after Huawei rip-and-replace 'expropriation'
TDC Net to receive reimbursement following Danish state's national security fears
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Amazon strikes multibillion-dollar optical fiber deal with Corning, touts 1,000 new jobs
The agreement is termed as a multi-year deal to provide connectivity to Amazon data centers
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'World first' hollow core fiber test deployed in Japan
Lightera powers HCF deployment with Oki
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AT&T CEO John Stankey exudes quiet network confidence to serve hyperscale connectivity
But remains uncertain on edge compute
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Biznet taps Ciena for Indonesian island backbone upgrade
ISP bolsters connectivity across Java, Sumatra, and Bangka Islands