The internet backbone is made up of the fastest routers, which can deliver 100Gbps trunk speeds. These routers are made by vendors including Cisco, Extreme, Huawei, Juniper, ...

The P.E.I. government says it no longer plans to create its own high-speed fibre network, which broadband internet companies could build off of expanding their service to rural communities.

The federal government says it will focus on "backbone" Internet connections to remote and rural communities with its five-year program to invest $500-million in expanded broadband access.

An apparently coordinated attack on the computers that act as the backbone of the Internet briefly crippled some of them Monday evening, but despite the scale of the attack, ...

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 ...

The Internet backbone market is “an intensely competitive market with dozens of network operators, content delivery networks, peering organizations, transit providers,” he said.

According to New Scientist, the fiber optic cables that make up the Internet’s Backbone have a maximum data capacity of about 100 terabits per second: René-Jean Essiambre of Alcatel-Lucent says ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it is the first Internet backbone in the world to connect to over ...