What are the defining factors of a Tier 1 provider vs. a Tier 2 provider? That was a question posed to me by a regular reader of this newsletter. The reader wrote: “Many Tier 2 providers nowadays have ...

From the flood of e-mail I’ve received, it seems my recent column defining a Tier 1 ISP struck a nerve with readers of this newsletter. My original column, prompted by a reader query, defined a Tier 1 ...

SmartWall ONE™ Relied Upon by Tier-1 Operators to Protect High-Capacity Networks and Enable DDoS Protection-as-a-Service "As networks scale, Tier-1 operators are turning to Corero because our DDoS ...

A tier-one operator deployed Trellis, an open source SDN-based platform, said AT&T’s Andre Fuetsch during an ONF Connect keynote. He didn’t name the operator.

Global Tier 1 carrier Cogent Communications is now live at Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA) Samrand data centre, giving customers direct access to one of the world’s largest Internet Protocol (IP) ...

Safaricom PLC has applied to renew its Network Facilities Provider–Tier 1 licence and its International Gateway Systems and Services licence The Communications Authority of Kenya announced the ...