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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cogent Communications, an internet backbone provider that carries approximately 25 percent of all global web traffic, has begun cutting ties with Russian businesses in response to the country’s ...

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.

Lafayette's municipal internet provider LUS Fiber won a $3.1 million federal grant to build a high-speed internet backbone along U.S. Highway 90 in the next two years. The grant was announced Thursday ...