Global Crossing (
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solutions provider, today announced that it’s expanded capacity on its mid-Atlantic undersea fiber-optic cable system to meet growing demand for Internet Protocol and Ethernet
transport among its customers, and to enhance connectivity among North America, Latin America and Europe.
The company says that it’s added 340 Gigabits per second of transport capacity on the MAC
submarine cable system with the addition of new terminal equipment. The MAC system provides 10 Gbps services, with a current design capacity of 1.3 Terabits.
According to company officials, the new capacity will enable 10 Gbps IP ports and also Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) at rates up to 10 Gbps.
The system, officials said, includes approximately 4,600 route miles of fiber-optic cable and landing stations in Brookhaven, New York, Hollywood, Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In order to provide full connectivity between North America, Latin America and Europe, MAC connects Global Crossing’s “Pan-American Crossing,” “South American Crossing” and “Atlantic Crossing 1” subsea systems, officials said.
“We continue to make strategic investments in network infrastructure in support of strong growth around the world,” said John Legere, chief executive officer at Global.
He added that just as the company did with the South America Crossing system in March, it’s increasing capacity on MAC to handle carrier and service provider customers’ requirement to handle the huge demand for IP connectivity and broadband services, including emerging services such as IPTV
and mobile broadband.
Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) | X |
| IPTV delivers a digital television service to subscribers
via the Internet Protocol over a broadband connection....more |
Media Access Control (MAC) | X |
| Specific protocols that govern client access to a network and
perform authentication, privacy, and data integrity services. DHCP translates MAC addresses into logical IP address for access to IP netw...more |
Internet Protocol (IP) | X |
| IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data
in packets over the Internet. I...more |
Ethernet | X |
| An industry-standard network hardware specification (IEEE 802.3) developed by IEEE that offers dedicated network (and Internet) access. Standard Ethernet is half-duplex transmission system. That is, d...more |
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