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CenturyLink expands German business connectivity with maincubes PoP

By Antony Savvas

CenturyLink has connected maincubes’ FRA01 data centre in Frankfurt to its international fibre network backbone. maincubes’ customers now have access to CenturyLink’s 450,000 route miles global enterprise network across 60 countries and its portfolio of connectivity, cloud, security, voice and managed services. The partnership with CenturyLink will enable colocation customers to securely connect their systems […]

News and Business

CenturyLink bigs up European fibre network

By John Williamson

To further target digital business growth in Europe, CenturyLink, Inc. has built new metro networks in Madrid, Spain and Marseille, France. The company is also connecting an additional 90 datacentres to its network in a number of core markets. These strategic expansions, in key hubs of business and commerce in Europe, are designed to deliver […]

News and Business

CenturyLink invests several hundred million dollars in edge compute strategy

By John Williamson

Hybrid networking, cloud connectivity and security solutions provider CenturyLink, Inc is announcing the rollout of a major edge-focused strategy. This is beginning with a several hundred-million-dollar investment to build out and support edge compute services. This effort includes creating more than 100 initial edge compute locations across the USA, and providing a range of hybrid […]

Technologies and Products

CenturyLink taps Corning for US fibre network expansion

By Peter Dykes

As customer demand for high-capacity, low-latency data transport continues to grow, CenturyLink, expanding its US intercity network by 4.7 million miles of fibre, using Corning’s SMF-28® ULL fibre and SMF-28® Ultra fibre in a hybrid Corning® SST-UltraRibbon™ cable. With a silica core design, SMF-28 ULL fibre offers the lowest loss of any terrestrial-grade optical fibre […]

Photo of money to show CenturyLink announced has completed the sale of certain former CenturyLink Level 3 metro network assets

News and Business

CenturyLink Asset Sale Goes Through

By Peter Dykes

US-based wholesale provider CenturyLink announced has completed the sale of certain former CenturyLink Level 3 metro network assets in the Boise, Idaho, area to Syringa Networks, a fiber-optic network provider headquartered in Boise. As previously announced, they entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to divest, among other assets, former Level 3 metro […]

Applications and Research

CenturyLink, Infinera deliver 2.5T DWDM capacity at Super Computing 2016

By Matthew Peach

Infinera, a developer of intelligent transport networks, and CenturyLink have delivered 2.5 Tb/s of super-channel transmission capacity to support SCinet at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16), held last week, November 13-18, in Utah, US. The 2.5 Tb/s of line-side capacity is intended to connect the Salt Lake City […]