Fiber to Data Centers: Enhancing Data Center Performance
Portland May Subsidize Gigabit Fiber
In the fiber optic, high-speed world, it seems all everyone wants to talk about is gigabit connectivity. Most often, this means Google Fiber. As the Internet giant expands more and more into being a service provider, cities throughout the country work to lure in the...
Rural Kansas Going Fiber
With fewer than 10,000 residents and situated more than 120 miles outside of Kansas City is the small city of Chanute, Kansas. With their remote and rural location, city officials realized a fiber-optic network could put Chanute ahead of other similarly sized cities...
How Chattanooga Became ‘Gig City’
Chattanooga might not be the first city one thinks of as a booming technology metropolis, but this Tennessee city has what analysts and city officials’ claim is the first and fastest ultra high-speed broadband connection, according to a recent article in the New York...
GeoTel Communications CEO, Dave Drazen, featured in June 6 Edition of the Atlanta Business Chronicle
Plugged in FTTP makes or breaks today’s offices - Dave Drazen by Janet Kendall, Contributing Writer (Dave Drazen) Imagine working in an Atlanta office building on a July afternoon without air conditioning. For the next generation of the city’s workforce, the thought...
GeoTel Communications Telecom Datasets to be Featured in Fortune Magazine
GeoTel Communications, LLC, a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web-based platforms, today announced that Fortune Magazine will feature GeoTel's telecom data sets and fiber optic maps in a multi-page...
Georgia County Searches for Buried Fiber
Much of the nation’s fiber-optic network was laid during the 1990s and early 2000s. Demand did not materialize as rapidly as expected, which resulted in billions, possibly trillions of dollars of unused fiber-optic cable buried across America. This fiber graveyard...
GeoTel Communications Donates Maps to Chicago Architecture Foundation
GeoTel Communications, LLC a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure data in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and web-based platforms, announces it has donated maps and telecom data to support the Chicago Architecture Foundation's upcoming exhibit,...
Fiber Optic Showdown
Since Google Fiber launched in Kansas City, Kansas in March 2011, cities across the country have tried to lure in the Internet giant. By offering blazing fast Internet connectivity, it leaves customers throughout the U.S. craving the one-gigabit speeds. This past...
The Fiber Gap is Shrinking, Slowly
Vertical Systems Group, a Massachusetts-based company committed to providing in-depth analysis and statistics on business data network services, recently released its findings showing that 3 percent more businesses in the United States have a fiber-optic network...