Level 3 has been focusing substantial resources on its managed security capabilities over the last year or two. Today they unveiled their latest investment in the company’s Adaptive Network Security offering: an expansion into the Asia-Pacific and African regions. [Read more →]
Reliance, Aircel Call Off the Wedding
October 2nd, 2017
The Indian wireless space has been a bit of a soap opera this past year, and in the latest twist the expected merger between Reliance Communications and Aircel has fallen apart. RCom announced on Sunday that in the face of legal and regulatory delays the two companies had allowed the arrangement to “lapse by mutual consent”. [Read more →]
Startups challenge telecoms status quo as 5G rises
September 29th, 2017
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
The rise of 5G is promising to shake up the status quo in the mobile equipment industry by presenting opportunities for startups to grab market share away from the incumbent vendors, according to [Read more →]
VIRTUS Plans New London Campus
September 28th, 2017
VIRTUS Data Centres has unveiled some new expansion plans for its UK data center footprint. They will be refitting two adjacent buildings in Stockley Park, which lies 6 miles from London and 7 miles from Slough, and launching them as LONDON5 and LONDON6. [Read more →]
Peak 10, Viawest Launch 100G
September 28th, 2017
A month and a half ago, Peak 10 closed its acquisition of Viawest. Today the combined company, which is simply going by the probably temporary name of “Peak 10 + Viawest”, has made its first big move: launching a network backbone. [Read more →]
Colo M&A: 365 Data Centers Buys Host.net
September 28th, 2017
Yesterday there was a bit of consolidation in the data center marketplace. 365 Data Centers has announced the acquisition of hybrid data center services provider Host.net. [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: Verne Global, LINX, IOX, Windstream
September 27th, 2017
Here are some quick takes of other news that’s worth a look: [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Xtera, Mitel, Sparkle, TPx
September 26th, 2017
Here’s a quick look at some other news from the start of the week: [Read more →]
Zayo Plans to Double Atlanta Colo
September 26th, 2017
Zayo Group announced plans to expand its colo footprint in Atlanta, Georgia yesterday. The company is building out a second data center in the southeastern hub in response to demand for both connectivity and colo from four anchor tenants. [Read more →]
Hawaiki Prepares to Kick Off Installation Phase
September 25th, 2017
The ongoing efforts to build a new cable system between the west coast of the US and Australia/New Zealand by way of Hawaii and American Samoa has achieved a new milestone. Hawaiki and TE SubCom have issued a project update as they move into the next phase, the actual laying of the cable. [Read more →]
Neutral Path Acquires Infinity Fiber
September 25th, 2017
There is some fiber M&A going on out in the Midwest today. Neutral Path Communications has revealed a definitive agreement to acquire Infinity Fiber, LLC in a deal that will extend its reach east and south from Chicago. [Read more →]
More Metro Fiber for SummitIG
September 25th, 2017
The fiber infrastructure builder and operator SummitIG has announced plans to further expand its footprint. On the menu is a network expansion that will add another 50 route miles to the company’s network this year, boosting the current 500 route miles by 10% by the end of 2017. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Ciena’s Helen Xenos on 400G and Other Optical Trends
September 25th, 2017
Now that 100G has been with us for most of a decade, we should be about due for the next wave of technology. And indeed we have started to see 200G solutions come out, and 400G appears to be just about ready. Ciena is one of the companies pushing technology past current boundaries and is actively rolling out its own solution. With us today to tell us what to expect and when to expect it is Ciena’s Helen Xenos. Helen is a senior director on the portfolio marketing team at Ciena and bears responsibility for taking the company’s converged packet-optical and high capacity coherent solutions to market. [Read more →]
Marea Cable Is Complete
September 22nd, 2017
According to a blog over at Microsoft, the Marea transatlantic cable has been successfully installed. It’s been a joint project between Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius, and it’s taken just two years to bring to fruition. [Read more →]
Friday Bytes: Spread, FirstLight, CCMI, Infinera
September 22nd, 2017
TGIF, and here’s a few other news items from this week that are worth a look: [Read more →]
EdgeConneX Weaves in PacketFabric
September 21st, 2017
The interconnection and cloud connectivity markets have been evolving rapidly over the last few years. Yesterday two of the companies that have been shaking things up in their respective areas have announced a new partnership. [Read more →]
Mobile broadband adoption boosts GDP
September 21st, 2017
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
An increase in mobile broadband penetration directly causes significant growth in a country’s GDP, according to research from Ericsson and the Imperial College of London. [Read more →]
Pennsylvania Picks Level 3
September 20th, 2017
With the CenturyLink deal looming ever closer, Level 3 has landed a significant contract in the government vertical. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has awarded the Broomfield-based network operator a 5-year, $79M contract. [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: Infomart, Orange, Cloudsmartz, Colt
September 20th, 2017
Here’s a quick look at some news from around the industry: [Read more →]
Not-So-Breaking News: Sprint & T-Mobile Are Talking
September 19th, 2017
The seasons are changing, which means of course that we need to refresh our wireless M&A rumors. You’ll never guess who is talking about a mega-merger this time. Ok, maybe you will. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: QTS, Cisco, CenturyLink, Level 3, Voxbone
September 19th, 2017
An IX expansion, a retirement, two new products, and a makeover: [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: ROOT Data Center CEO AJ Byers
September 19th, 2017
The Canadian data center market has been getting more and more attention lately, especially as more and more internet infrastructure investments are focused at the edge, outside the handful of core nodes that have traditionally dominated. One such market is that of Montreal, the home of ROOT Data Center. With us today to talk about the data center business up north is ROOT’s CEO AJ Byers. Prior to taking the helm at ROOT, AJ led Black Iron Data until its sale to Rogers, when he became the division’s president. [Read more →]
Focus Makes A Difference for SD-WAN Vendors
September 18th, 2017
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang
With SD-WAN becoming more popular in the WAN infrastructure marketplace, IT and telecom consultants like myself are often asked such questions by enterprise clients as that there are dozens of SD-WAN vendors out there, which one [Read more →]