Business Wire

Hurricane Electric Becomes First Internet Backbone in The World to Connect to 4,000 IPv6 Networks

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 ...
SpaceNews

Lasers Enable Internet Backbone Via Satellite

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) ...
The Droid Guy

Starlink’s Ground Station Network: Global Internet Coverage and Station Failures

SpaceX's Starlink, a revolutionary satellite internet constellation, relies heavily on its intricate network of ground stations to facilitate seamless and high-speed internet connectivity around the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Internet2 Project Plans Major Upgrades for Its Network Backbone

Officials at the Internet2 project have announced that Abilene, the project’s high-speed network backbone, will get improvements over the next two years, making it able to carry more data and support ...
Ecofin Agency

Gambia to Expand Internet Backbone Capacity Over 15-Fold in $50M Deal

Gambia’s Gamtel signs $50 million PPP to modernise internet backbone Project boosts core network capacity from 50 Gbps to 800 Gbps Upgrade aims to ease bottlenecks and strengthen national digital ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Australia Plans a National, High-Speed Internet Backbone

The Australian government announced plans last week to spend $19-million to develop a high-speed Internet backbone that will connect 80 major universities and research organizations across the country ...
CNET

Russian Internet Takes a Hit as Cogent Cuts Off Its Backbone Network

A major internet service provider's disconnection is a new step toward the "splinternet" that adds fragmentation to the global communication network. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...
Nasdaq

QTS Further Expands its Connectivity Ecosystem with Telia Carrier, the World's #1 Ranked Global Internet Backbone

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), a leading provider of software-defined and mega scale data center solutions, today announced that Telia Carrier, owner ...
Network World

MCI remains Internet’s largest backbone

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.
ZDNet

Russia remains connected to the internet

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukraine asked the internet governing groups to cut Russia off from the internet. These bodies, including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ...
TechSpot

China claims to have launched world's first 1.2 terabit-per-second internet backbone

In brief: China has just announced that the country now possesses the world's fastest internet: a backbone network that is able to reach 1.2 terabits (1,200 gigabits) per second across a 1,860-mile ...
Network World

Major ‘Net backbone attack could be first of many

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched Monday against all 13 of the Internet domain name system (DNS) root servers failed to bring down the Internet, but that doesn’t mean that more ...