Telecom Ramblings

This article was authored by Networks Asia staff, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Facebook has revealed that it’s first custom-built data center in Asia will be located in Singapore. The 170,000 square meter data center represents an investment of more than S$1.4 billion ($1.01 billion), and forms part of the company’s growing presence in Singapore and across Asia. [Read more →]

Like many infrastructure operators that were originally founded by coalitions of rural telephone operators, Bluebird Network spent its first decade largely under the radar of the broader markets. But in recent years, the company has become much more visible as it expands its reach. A few years ago, Bluebird even bought an underground data center in Springfield, MO and entered the colocation space. With us today to talk about Bluebird’s infrastructure and its unique data center asset is President and CEO Michael Morey. An industry veteran with roots in fiber stretching back to AT&T in the early 80s, he joined Bluebird in 2012 and has presided over a period of rapid growth at the company. [Read more →]

It’s been a busy week, so here are a few items worth noting that might have slipped past you: [Read more →]

Three interesting items worth noting: [Read more →]

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

Australian ISP Vocus Communications has switched on its new Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) ahead of schedule to compensate for a major service disruption on the Perth-Jakarta length of the Sea-Me-We 3 subsea cable. [Read more →]

It’s been a busy week for infrastructure news from overseas, here are a few more items worth noting: [Read more →]

After a year or two working out the kinks, Vapor IO says it is ready to start rolling out its ambitious edge platform, dubbed Kinetic Edge, nationally. The company has raised funds through a Series C financing, with Crown Castle and Berkshire Partners putting up the money for the next stage of the company’s development. [Read more →]

Back in May, GlobeNet announced plans for a new submarine cable connecting Brazil and Argentina. Today we got an update on that project as well as the identity of the content giant helping make the project happen. Facebook will be a full co-owner on the system. [Read more →]

The software side of the telecom vendor space has been rather dynamic lately, and today it saw an interesting bit of consolidation. The Swedish giant Ericsson has announced an agreement to acquire US-based CENX. [Read more →]

Forget whether 3 is better or worse than 4, in China the question currently being debated is whether 2 is better or worse than 3.  According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese leaders are considering combining China Unicom and China Telecom. [Read more →]

The US was off yesterday, but the rest of the world managed to keep busy.  Here are a few interesting items worth noting: [Read more →]

When network operators and service providers build out infrastructure, there’s a whole ecosystem of companies at the engineering and construction layer that they turn to in order to make it happen.  One of those companies is Hylan, which has been doing a bit of consolidation work of its own lately and dramatically expanding its geographical reach.  Hylan takes a turnkey, in-house approach to infrastructure projects rather than breaking them up and subcontracting them out.  With us today to let us know what Hylan is up to is CEO Robert DiLeo. [Read more →]

The rumors from Australia last week came to fruition yesterday.  Vodafone Australia and TPG Telecom have agreed to combine  in a merger of equals transaction worth some $15B. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Mogan A.B, Rajesh Khanna, and Balaji TN of Prodapt Solutions

As security threats are on the rise, digital service providers (DSPs) need to focus more on threat detection and mitigation capabilities across their network, especially on the access network that serves residential and enterprise customers. Furthermore, they need to focus [Read more →]

Four interesting contract wins from three continents: [Read more →]

Colt has long had one of the industries more aggressive plans to leverage SDN and NFV in its network. Today the UK-based global network operator took two more steps down that path, bringing greater functionality to the company’s customer base around the world. [Read more →]

Here are a few quick takes from mid-week as we approach Labor Day weekend. [Read more →]

Several Connecticut cities are getting a new fiber option this summer, as GoNetspeed says it has completed its initial buildout in the region. With network in place in West Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport, the upstart FTTH and business fiber service provider has made its entry into the state. [Read more →]

Two bits of subsea cable news and a not-unexpected objection to the big merger of the year: [Read more →]

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

Since Web 2.0 became important, many companies have wanted and claimed to create Web 3.0. The label has mainly been artificial. For example, the semantic web has been a candidate for this role, but we haven’t really seen it or what it might mean in practice. Now we again have a strong candidate for this role: [Read more →]

Over the last few years Crown Castle has been busy buying metro and regional fiber, with the biggest recent moves being Lightower, Wilcon, FPL Fibernet, and Sunesys.  The question many in the sector have had is just what kind of fiber infrastructure player does the longtime tower operator have in mind for these assets?  With us to start to answer that question is Jim Young, SVP and COO of Crown Castle Fiber. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Robert Martin, Director of Sales at Telesystem

Wide area networks (WANs) are the connective tissue of the modern distributed organization. They tie together main, remote and branch offices, as well as data centers, through combinations of different link types carrying traffic for applications such as hosted VoIP, videoconferencing and file transfers. The specific modes [Read more →]

A few news bytes worth noting: [Read more →]