Also on Friday, Verizon said it has begun to use the same general architecture for high-speed land-based networks, such as those in North America and Europe, that it already uses for its connections ...

Looking ahead to growing demand for bandwidth to feed large companies and computing clouds, Verizon Communications announced steps on Friday to increase the speed of the links its enterprise customers ...

That architecture, based on a mesh of cables, gives traffic across its core network more alternate routes to take if one cable breaks. This is a step up from a ring architecture, in which the network ...