Telecom Ramblings

The rise of the cloud and automation in general opened new potential business models for service providers.   One such provider that has taken advantage is the hybrid IT specialist Apcela, whose roots lie in the low latency, high speed trading networks that arose a decade ago.  With us today to talk about how Apcela got where they are and where they might be going is founder and CEO Mark Casey.  [Read more →]

SD-WAN entered the market initially being positioned as an alternative or replacement to legacy WAN solutions such as MPLS. However, as more enterprises plan to kick off Digital Transformation (DX) so as to better run the business and serve the customers, now it’s worth [Read more →]

A bit of everything today: some metro fiber, some data center real estate, some cloud connectivity, and a bit of subsea action: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Fiona Chau, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net

Japan’s Softbank and automaker Toyota announced plans to form a joint venture by April 2019 to provide launch Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) in the country. [Read more →]

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

Yesterday DE-CIX announced the completion of what had to have been an epic infrastructure migration on its home turf. The company spent the summer moving one of the core nodes of its Frankfurt IX from one data center to another, with the IX remaining live the entire time. [Read more →]

One by sea, one by land, and two by api: [Read more →]

For over a decade, the fiber industry has been focused on the metro and middle mile as the path to success. But having solved that business model, some in the industry are now turning their attention toward what has been a harder nut to crack — fiber to the home.  GoNetSpeed is a recent entry in that arena, launching its services in the Pittsburgh metro area and in suburban Connecticut.  With us today to talk about the opportunity they see and how they are taking advantage of it are two familiar faces: the company’s president, Larry Coleman, and its COO, Tom Perrone, veterans of Sunesys and Fibertech/Lightower, respectively. [Read more →]

TGIF, but first two metro fiber items, one big data center, and an IX goes to court in Europe: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Joseph Portillo, Data Technology Specialist at Multacom Corporation

Companies of all sizes have flocked to the public cloud for its perceived cost savings. Although a single user virtual machine (VM) in the public cloud is cheaper than a dedicated server, as a business grows past its R&D stage and technology needs increase in complexity, the public cloud cost can increase beyond that of a private or hybrid cloud solution.   [Read more →]

Here are a few bits of news from around the sector and world from this week: [Read more →]

I must have missed this one over the summer.  Uniti Group has closed on the purchase and leaseback of a fiber network from CableSouth, the first time they’ve done such a deal with a cable MSO.  The deal follows closely on Uniti’s closure of a similar deal with TelePacific a few weeks ago. [Read more →]

One infrastructure deal, one cloud connectivity deployments, and two network upgrade wins by vendors: [Read more →]

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

An explosive report has accused Chinese intelligence agencies of sneaking a tiny chip into servers assembled in China for US chip maker Supermicro that introduced hardware vulnerabilities enabling stealth access to any network using the altered devices. [Read more →]

One metro fiber and four data center expansion items worth noting before you head out for the weekend. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Steve Smith, VP of Strategic Industries, ClickSoftware

Typically when a customer calls their service provider, they have a problem, whether it is to report an outage, a billing issue, or some other disruption in service. Warranted or not, telephone and internet providers do not have the best reputation for their responses to customer service requests. However this perception seems to be shifting, [Read more →]

The southern hemisphere has never really gotten its share of subsea connectivity, but activity certainly has picked up lately.  Today the long proposed but unconsummated buildout of SAEx came a step closer to reality as SAEx International and Alcatel Submarine Networks announced the start of desktop study, permitting, and survey activities. [Read more →]

Two contracts, one p3 buildout, and the closing of some consolidation: [Read more →]

Windstream Wholesale says it will be expanding its core transport network out to the New Jersey shore in Q4.  The company is adding capacity and lowering latency out to NJFX in Wall Township, a growing nexus alongside the landing stations for submarine cables to Europe and South America. [Read more →]

123Net has a new fiber partner to the northeast of Detroit.  They are teaming up with St. Clair County RESA, which built out 200 route miles of fiber a couple decades ago to hook up its seven K-12 public schools and is looking to make better use of that asset.  [Read more →]

Yesterday saw some interesting consolidation in a segment I don’t cover too much.  Starhome Mach announced yesterday that its owners at Fortissimo Capital have agreed to sell the company to Vista Equity Partners.  Vista intends to combine the company with Telarix, which it has owned since 2016. [Read more →]

A few items from across the Atlantic worth noting: [Read more →]

With the Interoute integration well underway, GTT apparently needed some more action to fill up its autumn season.  Yesterday they announced another deal, acquiring Access Point.   [Read more →]