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) ...
Business Wire

Hurricane Electric Becomes First Internet Backbone to Connect to 200 Internet Exchanges around the Globe

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it is the first Internet backbone in the world to connect to over 200 ...
Heartland

Internet Backbone Competition and the SBC/AT&T Merger

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 ...
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 ...
PC World

China expands Internet backbone to improve speeds, reliability

Even as China cuts access to some foreign online services, it is laying more fiber optic cables to improve its connection to global Internet networks. China recently added seven new access points to ...