Verizon Business took its next step toward deploying 100Gbps by trialing its 100G optical service with the United Kingdom’s national research and education network, JANET.Verizon says it finished the trial in April after it sent 100G signals simultaneously with 10G and 40G optical signals over a 103-kilometer section of its global network located between London and Reading in the United Kingdom. The carrier tested the service in collaboration with JANET, the UK’s network that is used to support bandwidth-intensive educational and research project and that consists of a backbone and 19 regional networks.To read this Network World report in full, see:
www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052709-verizon-trials-100g.html
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