Telecom Ramblings

It has been a busy few years at Windstream on multiple fronts, but the company’s wholesale business has perhaps undergone the most significant changes.  After combining the assets gleaned from its ILEC roots and all the CLEC and other acquisitions the company has made over the years and building out further organically, Windstream Wholesale has emerged as a power in the transport business. With us today to talk about the company’s plans in wholesale is Joe Scattareggia, EVP of Wholesale Solutions at Windstream. [Read more →]

Telefonica and IBM are teaming up in a new collaboration. The two giants are working together to address the needs of transactional network activities, and they are starting with the routing of international voice calls. [Read more →]

For updated from four vendors, each in a market segment: [Read more →]

Yesterday there was another bit of consolidation in the world of metro and regional fiber. Cable ONE has agreed to acquire Clearwave Communications. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Jouko Ahvenainen, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

The cloud business is very much dominated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google, although there are many more regional, niche or smaller cloud providers. The push towards edge and serverless computing mean [Read more →]

France-IX has been busy to the south lately it seems. Today the company offered up an update on its progress in taking on the African network interconnection marketplace.  Spoiler alert: traffic is up. [Read more →]

Zayo’s earnings last week didn’t go over too well.  Revenues were down sequentially on all fronts, and the stock fell sharply as a result.  But the less immediate part of the company’s announcements will have more significant long term effects.  First though, here are Zayo’s fiscal Q1 numbers in some context: [Read more →]

A few items from last week or over the weekend worth checking into: [Read more →]

A pretty big chunk of Midwestern data center space quietly changed hands this week. The buyer is News Press & Gazette Company, and the target was Omaha’s Nebraska Data Centers. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Stacey Kuyf, writer and content strategist for atmail

The cloud is no longer new technology. In fact, according to research by Citrix, by 2025 it will be so entrenched in our business processes that the term will be obsolete. This is because the cloud will simply be synonymous [Read more →]

Three items of interest from west to east across Eurasia: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

The Malaysian government has announced a 1 billion ringgit ($239.7 million) initiative to improve the nation’s telecoms connectivity in the market in order to promote growth of its digital economy. [Read more →]

Three interesting items worth noting at midweek: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by David W Wang

Recently I’ve received quite some inquiries from readers of my Telecom Ramblings’ blog, showing interest in my new book “Software Defined WAN for the Digital Age- A Bold Transition to Next Generation Networking”, which is being officially [Read more →]

Here are a few quick takes on some other recent news worth noting: [Read more →]

EdgeConneX has added another market to its European footprint, and contrary to their usual methods they have done it inorganically. The edge data center builder and operator has acquired the Linxdatacenter facility in Warsaw, Poland. [Read more →]

As it prepares to roll out 5G for real, Verizon is realigning its internal structure to hopefully reflect the new realities of the networking business. The company is shifting toward customer-facing operating groups backed by a common network operations organization. [Read more →]

It has been a while since Zayo had kicked off a new longhaul fiber buildout, so on Friday they made up for lost time and announced two of them. Both projects connect up more of Zayo’s East Coast infrastructure to the rest of its national dark fiber assets. [Read more →]

Some of the industry’s newer fiber assets changed hands late last week. Resurgence Infrastructure Group has purchased Strome Fiber Holdings, taking over the company’s presence in the southeastern US. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Eric Holtzclaw, Chief Strategist of PossibleNOW

The GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation) passed in the European Union (EU) in May of 2018 and is one of the most popular topics of discussion amongst telecom businesses who may or may not conduct business on an international level. Time and time again, [Read more →]

Three items from different parts of the cloud to keep an eye on: [Read more →]

I’m on the road this week, but the rest of the world rolls on.  Here are a few US network bits of news worth noting: [Read more →]

A few items from Europe worth noting from the first half of this week: [Read more →]