Verizon to Deploy 100G on U.S. Backbone

Verizon this morning announced plans to deploy 100 gigabit technology on selected segments of its U.S. backbone network by the end of the second quarter, bringing customers greatly increased speed and performance for everything from cloud-based enterprise applications to video streaming. The network segments include Chicago to New York, Sacramento to Los Angeles and Minneapolis to Kansas City.

“We’ve already successfully deployed 100G on a portion of our European network, and now we’re preparing to expand this technology to our U.S. network,” said Ihab Tarazi, vice president of network planning at Verizon. “Advancing to 100G is a significant step in ...