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Ebone and Speedera Announce Content Delivery Partnership Robert B. Marks - 📅 - Speedera Networks Inc. (speedera.com), a global provider of content delivery services, and Ebone (ebone.com), a European broadband and IP and optical networking company based out of London, England, announced a partnership today that will increase the global presence of both companies.

The partnership is part of the Speedera Fusion program, which is designed to provide partners of Speedera with a full set of managed delivery services. Ebone feels the partnership will help improve the ...
HP Announces Five-Year Transition Plan for e3000 Servers - 📅 - Hewlett-Packard Company (hp.com) announced last week that it
will begin advising customers to transition from HP e3000 servers to other
HP server platforms over the next five years. The rapid evolution of
technology away from proprietary platforms and customer and partner
decisions to move to other HP platforms led to the transition plan.



HP will offer customers assistance for their transition, including migration
services, financing options, consulting, outsourcing and ...
Redelegation of .us Country-Code Top-Level Domain - 📅 - This redelegation occurred
before the completion of the normal IANA requirements. The United States
Government informed ICANN on 16 November 2001 that, because of complexities
of U.S. procurement laws, it was not able to extend the existing arrangements
with VeriSign nor complete the necessary three-way set of communications
among itself, ICANN, and NeuStar. This presented a peculiar set of ...
KPNQwest Wins UCI Award for Best Data Centres - 📅 - KPNQwest (kpnqwest.com), a pan-European data communications and hosting company, has received the Unified Communications International Award in recognition for Best Data Centre facilities in Europe. The award was presented to KPNQwest Thursday night at the UCI Expo Europe, held in the Austria Centre, Vienna.



The award, which was presented by the event sponsors, PBI Media
(pbimedia.com), underscores KPNQwest's leadership position in having the most advanced facilities for ...
Hughes Network Systems Announces Broadband Alliance Program - 📅 - Hughes Network Systems (hns.com), a provider of broadband by
satellite services, announced yesterday the Hughes Broadband Alliance
Program with Sun Microsystems and PolycomInc.(polycom.com), a leader in the
convergence of interactive voice, video and data communications.



By joining the alliance, Sun and Polycom will be able to develop next
generation applications and services intended to operate on Spaceway,
Hughes' advanced technology broadband satellite platform. In ...
FarSight Named Service of the Year by Communications Outsourcing - 📅 - Empirix, Inc. (empirix.com), a provider of integrated test
and monitoring solutions for business-critical Web, voice and network
applications, announced yesterday that its FarSight hosted Web monitoring
service was honored as "Service of the Year" by Communications Outsourcing
(formerly ASP) magazine.



"The Service of the Year Award honors strength and innovation in the
challenging new market of hosted communications services," said TMC
president and group editor-in-chief ...
Alcatel Unveils New Optical Fiber - 📅 - Data networking firm Alcatel (alcatel.com) today announced the availability of a new fiber for telecommunications applications. The new fiber, known as Enhanced Single Mode Optical Fiber (E-SMF) may provide the next step in computer networking, as it not only adds around a third more wavelengths to the usable spectrum, but also extends transmission reach by 50%.



The focus for E-SMF is to reduce attenuation, also known as signal loss. E-SMF, by reducing attenuation and ...
CSC to Replace Canadian Government's HRDC Network System - 📅 - Computer Sciences Corporation (csc.com) has been awarded a contract by Public Works and Government Services Canada to replace Human Resources Development Canada's (hrdc-drhc.gc.ca) network operating system with new technology. The value of the contract, which has a five-year base period and two option years, could reach approximately $96 million Canadian ($60.3 million U.S.) if all options are exercised.



HRDC delivers employment insurance, income security, employment ...
The webhost industry: week review - 📅 - It's been a mediocre week for the Nasdaq, which made strong gains early in the week only to get stuck near the 1900 mark Wednesday, progressing little the rest of the week.

Mixed economic reports and the situation in Afghanistan seemed to contribute to investor's fence-sitting.

Thursday was one of the busiest days of the week for activity in the hosting industry, with a number of firms making big announcements. Tech giant IBM said it had inked Dow Chemical to a five year, ...
Sprint Launches International Partner Programme - 📅 - Sprint (sprintworldwide.com) announced yesterday the launch of its international partnership programme. The programme is designed to deliver secure and value-added IP services to the customers of system integrators, ISPs, carriers and Value-Added Resellers.



At the same time, Sprint has named riodata (riodata.de), Germany's first data service provider as a partner with the programme. "The programme is a great opportunity for our partners to catapult their business to new ...