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Google Fiber TV Opens for Business, Adds ESPN, Disney to Lineup

TV plan, Gigabit Internet plan and the Free Internet plan.

The Google network will cover 89 percent of Kansas City, Kan. and central Kansas City, Mo.

“One gigabit connectivity will have an immediate impact on our users—the Web will be faster, TV will be clearer, and uploading and downloading will be super speedy,” the company said in its blog. “Not only that, but we fully expect that gigabit speeds will lead to a wave of online innovation, led by Kansas City.”

The first fiberhood to be connected will be Hanover Heights in Kansas City, Kan., which pre-registered the highest percentage of households. It will be turned up “in a few weeks,” Google said.

On the Missouri side, the first fiberhood to get service will be Crown Center, which pre-registered a “whopping number of apartment buildings and condos,” said Google. The company is still trenching fiber in Missouri, so installations in Missouri fiberhoods will start next spring.

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capabilities, including training, installation and ongoing technical support, Transmode will also offer a complete services package. The new deployments with XO Communications will commence immediately, wrote Shanbhag.

Similarly, contributor Anil Sharma reported that Italy based Infracom has selected optical transport equipment from Ekinops to further improve its metro and access networks.

Ekinops is a supplier of next generation optical transport equipment for telecommunications service providers. Officials with Ekinops said that the company’s 360 transport system allows service providers to optimize the aggregation and transport of a broad range of service types and rates. Thanks to this capability, Infracom will now be able to provide additional service offerings to its end customers while optimizing the bandwidth utilization of its core network, wrote Sharma.

Lastly, digital optical networking systems developer Infinera announced the launch of a 500 Gbps long-haul FlexCoherent super-channels, called DTN-X platform. The report indicates that Infinera’s (News - Alert) DTN-X P-OTN platform combines scale, simplicity and efficiency of the digital optical network with the terabit age to deliver the next step function in optical networking. 

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- Alert) skills and competencies.

Calix announced it was chose to complete five broadband stimulus projects. The United States government is looking to improve broadband connections in rural areas with the Broadband Initiatives Program, using stimulus money to give rural companies and residents a boost. Calix (News - Alert) projects will support $35 million of this program.

Nortech Systems announced that its Intercon 1 division introduced the MIL-DTL-38999, a circular connection option for Intercon’s Camera Link Line. The connector is designed for environmental applications and isolates the camera from the computer it is connected to.

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- Alert) announced its VersaBeam, a product that is meant for expanded-beam interconnects.

According to the report, the assemblies required will meet Telcordia’s (News - Alert) GR-1435 specifications, a requirement for telco equipment providers.

“We worked closely with Avago to develop a solution that not only meets telecom specification standards for optical-cable to optical-module mating, but also provides optimum airflow and cable management for next-generation applications in emerging high-speed data and computer markets.”

Last but not least, the U.S. Unified Community Anchor Network (UCAN) Network won a $62.5 million grant to interconnect existing academic and research networks nationwide over a 100 Gbps nationwide backbone.

TMCnet’s Joan Engebreston spoke with Mark Johnson, executive director for UCAN in more detail about the project and the technologies involved.

When asked if decision-makers had any difficulty finding dark fiber everywhere they needed it, Johnson said finding fiber on nationwide routes wasn’t difficult,

“But it is a challenge to get them to sell it to you,” he said.

UCAN has managed to obtain 100 Gbps routes despite the challenges.

Read the full interview here.

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By Rich Steeves
TMCnet Copy Editor

Each week, we at TMC (News - Alert) like to take a look back at the happenings in various communications and technology industries to see what’s new. Here, then, is everything you need to know about dark fiber news from the past week.

To start off the week, Lightower Fiber Networks revealed its intention to attend the Channel Partners Conference & Expo. “For resellers and agents, Channel Partners is a great event that brings together the right elements to get business done. Through our Channel Partner (News - Alert) Program, Lightower presents resellers and agents a unique opportunity to partner with a leading provider of fiber-based services in the Northeast. Our programs are flexible and provide immediate value and outstanding support to our indirect sales partners,” explained Herb Boynton, Vice President of Sales for Lightower.

In order to address a particularly pressing and timely need, that of Internet connectivity in rural areas, ADTRAN (News

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