Jim Wagner

FreeDSL customers languishing at 144Kbps to 384Kbps speeds can get a taste of truly high-speed digital subscriber line access with Winfire Inc.’s, Bandwidth-on-Demand, it was announced Wednesday. The patent-pending product by Winfire gives DSL customers a one-click speed boost of up to 1.54Mbps, depending on the condition of the copper line running from the home […]

New Edge Networks turned the corner on another milestone with Tuesday’s announcement of its digital subscriber line (DSL) services in 300 markets throughout the U.S. New Edge has taken the lead in its promise to “bridge the digital divide,” a much bandied-about catch phrase touted by many telecommunications companies, but one rarely followed through those […]

Level 3 Communications Inc. is giving its customers a last-mile solution with the strategic alliance it signed Tuesday with DSLnetworks. The three-year, $35 million deal calls for DSLnetworks to provide wholesale last-mile DSL access and solutions to Level 3’s Internet and applications service provider customers (ISP and ASP), leveraging the carrier’s national IP backbone. Last-mile […]

British Telecommunications is taking advantage of its monopoly of high-speed copper-based Internet access to provide asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) service to residential users and enhanced speeds for business users Tuesday. BTopenworld, the Internet service provider (ISP) arm of United Kingdoms-based BT, is offering up to 500Kbps upstream speeds (with 250Kbps downstream speeds) for 150 […]

MegaPath Networks Inc., announced Friday the buyout of New York-based 1Terabit, Inc.’s, digital subscriber lines of as part of its national expansion plan. Growth through acquisition has been the Pleasanton, CA-based company’s ticket to nationwide deployment, since outright purchase of an existing DSL operation is much less expensive than starting from scratch in a city […]

As union members from Verizon Communications trickle back into work after a 17-day strike, a backlog of more than 250,000 work orders waits to be completed. That could mean a long wait for competitive local exchange carriers and Internet service providers from Maine to Virginia who depend on Verizon for telephone, dial up and digital […]

One of Japan’s largest backbone network providers is making a $30 million investment in U.S. Internet routing and switching equipment to ramp up for the country’s increased metropolitan bandwidth demands. Internet Initiative Japan, Inc., tapped ONI Systems Corp. and its dynamic transport system product line Thursday to expand the metro network ring and increase the […]

Level 3 Communications Inc.’s long-haul data network lines are getting an upgrade with third-generation fiber optics from Corning Inc. The next-generation LEAF fiber-optic cable, not available until early 2001, reduces signal loss when carried over a long distance. Level 3 officials expect the upgrade to improve performance more than 50 percent over the second generation […]

DSL.net scored a touchdown with its partnership to IBM Corp. providing digital subscriber line connectivity to small e-business customers. The deal, announced Wednesday, lets IBM sell high-speed Internet access along with its Small Business WebConnections, geared to transform bricks-and-mortar companies into successful application service providers. David Struwas, DSL.net president and chief executive officer, said his […]

The race between cable Internet service providers Road Runner and Excite@Home got a little more interesting on Wednesday with both companies touting their milestone achievements. On the heels of this morning’s announcement by Road Runner it had reached one million customers, Excite@Home trumped that with its announcement it had reached two million subscribers. Both are […]

Responding to mounting Internet traffic worldwide, PAIX, a subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc., announced Wednesday its expansion in six U.S. and Europe cities by the year’s end. Facilities are expected to open in New York, Virginia and Washington in the third quarter, with an opening in Dallas, Amsterdam and Atlanta slated for the fourth […]

InfoCure Corp. is taking its first steps towards solvency after a self-examination called for the major restructuring of its lagging business plan. The plan calls for the spin-off of its PracticeWorks division, which provides ASP services to more than 38,000 dental practitioners. The spin-off should be completed by the end of the year, when it […]