The backbone of the internet is formed by a dense network of fibre- optic cables, each of which transports up to more than 100 terabits of data per second (1 terabit = 1012 digital 1/0 signals) ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it is the first network in the world to connect to over 4,000 IPv6 ...

Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing ...

Five years ago, U.S. and European antitrust watchdogs blocked the merger of MCI and Sprint for fear their combined backbone would have such a dominant share of Internet traffic that it could force ...

Lumen, formerly CenturyLink, operates one of the world's largest Internet backbones. Effective immediately, Lumen declared it couldn't continue to operate in Russia and stopped all routing traffic for ...

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Cogent Communications CEO Dave Schaeffer knew he had big problems. Schaeffer’s company, which runs a big chunk of the internet backbone and sells access ...

THERE are few facets of society that have remained untouched by the internet. From business communication to leisure activity, the net has transformed the way we behave. Yet at its heart the internet ...

More than a year after filing for bankruptcy, MCI remains the largest backbone provider on the global Internet, according to a recent study by TeleGeography, a research division of PriMetrica.

A Chinese ship has tested a new device capable of slicing through submarine data cables thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface. That demonstration may exacerbate security concerns over a spate ...