Maggie Chan Jones, senior vice president at Level 3 Communications‘ North America marketing practice, has been named the 2014 Woman of the Year by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications. Level 3 said Thursday the award was given at WICT’s 15th Annual Walk of Fame event last week, honoring industry leaders who demonstrate the […] More

Ed Morche leads Level 3 Communications‘ government markets group as its senior vice president and general manager, leading all functional activities in support of the firm’s civilian, defense, intelligence and other customers. In that role, the more-than-20-year telecommunications veteran also sets strategic direction for the firm’s capture strategy for government contracts. Morche recently caught up […] More

Battelle, Toshiba‘s UK team and China have begun installing and testing communications networks by using quantum physics with the goal of helping to secure long-distance transmissions of data, Nature reported Wednesday. Jane Qiu writes Battelle and Geneva-based ID Quantique collaborated to deploy an approximately 403.8-mile optical fiber to Battelle’s Columbus, Ohio headquarters and offices in Washington. […] More

A team made-up of Siemens and Thales has won a potential two-year, $75 million contract to build and install control and command technologies for a high-speed rail project in Spain. Adif picked Siemens and Thales to develop signalling, train protection, video surveillance, telecommunications and centralized traffic management systems for the Spanish operator to manage the […] More

Nearly 90 percent of 450 North American businesses surveyed by Neustar experienced repeat distributed denial of service attacks in 2013. Data from Neustar’s “DDoS Attacks and Impacts Report” indicates that DDoS threats cost enterprises millions of dollars in downtime, brand damage and customer support, Neustar said Tuesday. Neustar found that more DDoS perpetrators use a”smokescreening” […] More

CenturyLink will provide the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency with a fiber optic system to help connect three air bases in Colorado Springs, Colo. under a potential five-year, $1.7 million contract. The company said Wednesday that the system is designed to resist high-altitude electromagnetic pulses and link Schriever Air Force Base, Peterson Air Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Air Force […] More

Verizon has joined an organization that promotes Linux through the use of open source software for the communications industry. The company will act as a licensee of the Open Invention Network and also becomes the organization’s first major communications service provider member, OIN announced Tuesday. OIN develops software and patents that are royalty-free to any […] More

David Young serves as vice president of sales within Level 3 Communications‘ federal market group, where he leads the firm’s sales to defense, civilian, and intelligence agencies. This includes sales of solutions in data services, content delivery, voice, transport and professional services. The more-than-25-year federal telecommunications veteran joined Level 3 in 2002 and held a senior […] More

IBM has released a virtualization platform for communication networks that is intended to help communications services providers use cloud computing and to integrate their applications with mobile services. The IBM System z Solution for Mobile Computing is intended to address concerns surrounding network traffic, as well as to utilize existing data and transactions in IBM […] More

Salient Federal Solutions will host the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission‘s data center operations in a cloud computing environment under a potential five-year, $4 million contract. The company will use a managed services environment to host the commission’s telecommunications and e-government applications, as well as help migrate and integrate the EEOC’s systems into a cloud platform, Salient […] More

Yogesh Khanna serves as vice president and chief technology officer of IT infrastructure solutions for the North American public sector at Computer Sciences Corp., holding more than 20 years of experience in the information systems, financial services and telecommunications markets. His background includes roles in helping create new technology and business offerings at companies such as […] More

Thales Alenia Space, the space systems division of Thales Group, has won a contract to build a telecommunications satellite for Russian operator Gazprom Space Systems. Construction of the Yamal-601 could take 26 months and the satellite will be launched by the International Launch Service aboard a Proton rocket, Thales announced Wednesday. Under the contract, Thales will be […] More