Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it Is this what the kidz call a glow-up? Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1
Lumen to double size of US network with six million extra miles of fiber Big expansion of 400Gbps networking as it plays catch-up on speeds and feeds Networks06 Dec 2022 | 7
CenturyLink L3 outage knocks out web giants and 3.5% of all internet traffic Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Networks31 Aug 2020 | 25
CenturyLink caught trying to steal customers despite promising court it wouldn’t, promises it won't do it again Two-faced ISP gets $250,000 tickle, will be watched by independent monitor Networks17 Aug 2020 | 17
How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links Networks20 Aug 2019 | 53
US states join watchdog probing CenturyLink's Xmas data center outage that screwed 911 system TITSUP network card fingered for dropped calls (that's a Total Inability To Send Usable Packets) Networks02 Jan 2019 | 15
Florence and the Machines: Data centers brace as hurricane smashes into US coast TImes get wet and windy – but bit barns keep on ticking On-Prem14 Sep 2018 | 17
Level 3 thrown in the C'Link after watchdog approves $34bn gobble While Softbank's Sprint goes limp on T-Mobile US merger Networks31 Oct 2017 | 4
How would you pronounce 'Cyxtera'? We're asking because that's what CenturyLink's former data centres are called now On-Prem03 May 2017 | 30
Embiggened CenturyLink flogs off data centres Private venture consortium buys 57 bit barns On-Prem07 Nov 2016 |
CenturyLink set to merge with tier-one provider Level 3 for $34bn CEOs can hardly contain their delight Networks31 Oct 2016 | 5
CenturyLink boosts DaaS capital by acquiring Orchestrate NoSQL fu for everyone, spread across the clouds Channel21 Apr 2015 | 2
FCC hit with SEVENTH net neutrality lawsuit CenturyLink joins queue suing US busybody to kill new rules Networks17 Apr 2015 | 29
FCC taps CenturyLink on shoulder, mumbles about a fine for THAT six-hour 911 outage Telco to pay out eight days of profit after network goes titsup Networks08 Apr 2015 | 10
CenturyLink said to have pondered Rackspace buy Report says bit barn buyout rumour believable On-Prem08 Sep 2014 | 4
CenturyLink slashes prices to guarantee its megacloud future Bets big to be among the ten megaclouds left standing Channel01 May 2014 | 4
If you don't GRIP it tightly, lonely enterprise cloud will WANDER There's more to this than just a bigger DropBox SaaS05 Mar 2014 | 8
Telco CenturyLink is moved to tiers: Biz gobbles Tier 3 cloud shop Second Cloud Foundry tech swallow this year SaaS19 Nov 2013 |