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Comcast's 150Mb Business Internet Comes West

Comcast has increased its flagship business Internet product by 50%, offering Internet speeds of up to 150 Mbps.

Want faster Internet? Need redundant circuits? The Deluxe 150 service has a rack rate price of $249.95. Caisson can help you deploy this today.

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Zayo Offers 100 Gb Wavelength Service On West Coast Route

Zayo’s 100G Wavelength technology now provides West Coast customers with increased capacity, improved latency and cost efficiencies across a corridor that includes a high concentration of media content and internet companies.

With data consumption on the rise, this expansion will accommodate bandwidth demand driven by cloud computing, mobile traffic, “big data” processing and video streaming with Ethernet-based service delivery to customer sites. Additionally, because 100G transport requires fewer hardware connections than multiple 10G platforms, Zayo’s service allows customers to build their networks more efficiently, and with fewer potential points of failure.

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Integra Telecom Launches Wavelength Services

ntegra Telecom offers high-bandwidth transport and point-to-point connectivity for business continuity, disaster recovery and long-distance data center networking. As reported:

PORTLAND, Ore., April 2, 2012 – Integra Telecom Inc., a provider of fiber-based,

business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, has launched

Wavelength Services...

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For schools, bandwidth limits can be daily concern

Frank Catalano in his Geek Wire column this week, implies the importance of telecom to the acceleration of children's education in the U.S.

He explains that "digital technologies are changing K-12," and "in some cases education has leapfrogged consumer and business" [in this arena]. He writes that web-based education programs are among the list of technologies in this trend. And goes on to say that "existing limits of bandwidth" are a concern.

I asked Frank if by existing bandwidth limits he meant funding limits (i.e. schools with not enough money to get the bandwidth they need). His response was revealing:

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