2009
09.02
09.02
Today I saw an eWeek story about Qwest turning up 100 gigabits of capacity on their network backbone, thanks to Alcatel-Lucent’s networking equipment. This is a far cry from trying to sell the backbone network, as the company had tried to do a few months back. Qwest is the first provider that I know of to use straight 100 Gbps equipment (rather than 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps on multiple wavelengths and/or fiber strands) though plenty of providers (like Cogent, Level3 and XO Communications) have more than 100 Gbps of capacity on many of their backbone links.