The Caribbean may soon have another submarine cable player shaking things up. Deep Blue Cable has contracted with TE SubCom to deploy the new system they have planned. [Read more →]
WorldLink, Nokia Bring 100G to the Himalayas
July 10th, 2017
Nokia has sold some gear at the top of the world. Nepal’s WorldLink is rolling out Nepal’s first 100G backbone, leveraging Nokia’s 1830 PSS DWDM technology to make it happen. [Read more →]
Cincinnati Bell Makes Two Deals
July 10th, 2017
Cincinnati Bell made two inorganic moves this morning, surging onto the consolidation stage in a rather unexpected way. will be paying The Midwestern service provider has signed a definitive agreements to combine with Hawaiian Telecom and to acquire OnX Enterprise Solutions. [Read more →]
Bharti Airtel Eyes Tata’s Communications Assets
July 7th, 2017
India may see a mega merger this year, if reports out of the region are correct. Tata Group has long been seeking a way to reconfigure its capital structure and relieve the pressure of its debt, and they may have found a way to do it with the help of the rival Bharti Enterprises group. [Read more →]
CityFibre Raises War Chest, Buys Entanet
July 7th, 2017
CityFibre is making a move over in Europe this week. The UK wholesale metro fiber operator is raising up to £200M as part of an expansion of its buildout across the country. Simultaneously, they have announced an acquisition as well. [Read more →]
Verizon and Disney? Hmmmm…
July 6th, 2017
That’s the rumor of the week it seems, at least via the New York Post. Is Verizon about to take a swing at owning even more content? Analysts appear to be rather tickled by the idea, but otherwise not particularly impressed. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: Vocus, Coriant, Huawei, Equinix
July 6th, 2017
Here’s a quick look at some news from around the world this week: [Read more →]
Zayo Targets Renewable Energy for zColo
July 5th, 2017
Zayo has done a deal for renewable energy for its colocation division. The Boulder-based infrastructure provider has purchased 86 million kilowatt hours of energy certificates. [Read more →]
Equinix Launches AM4
July 5th, 2017
Equinix’s presence in the Netherlands is that much bigger this morning. The global data center operator has launched its latest facility in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. [Read more →]
Crown Castle Throwing Its Weight Behind Small Cells
July 5th, 2017
Reports over the holiday that derive from Guggenheim Equity Research suggest that Crown Castle has some major plans for small cells. Specifically, the tower and fiber operator will be adding more than 25,000 small cell sites to its portfolio, more than doubling the 20K the company has in place today. [Read more →]
ADVA Makes an Inorganic Move, to Buy MRV Communications
July 3rd, 2017
There was some merger news from the vendor space over the weekend. ADVA Optical Networking has entered into a definitive agreement to buy MRV Communications. [Read more →]
China Telecom enters three IoT partnerships
July 3rd, 2017
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
China Telecom has entered three new partnership agreements aimed at accelerating the development of services based on an IoT open platform. [Read more →]
Friday Bytes: Zayo, Digital Realty, Ciena, Nokia
June 30th, 2017
With July 4 approaching rather rapidly and the second quarter coming to a close, here are a few news bits of companies taking care of the details. [Read more →]
Thursday Roundup: QTS, 1025Connect, CoreSite, Equinix, Infinera
June 29th, 2017
Here’s five data center and interconnection items worth a look: [Read more →]
Huawei Marine Wins SAIL Contract
June 28th, 2017
For a segment of the market that doesn’t yet actually exist, the South Atlantic submarine cable business seems to be quite popular. Yesterday Huawei Marine inked a deal with China Unicom and Camtel to build the South Atlantic Inter Link, or SAIL, which will be a cable between Africa and South America. [Read more →]
AMS-IX Taps PacketFabric’s Network
June 28th, 2017
The internet exchange specialist AMS-IX has expanded its reach with some help from PacketFabric. The two have signed a memorandum of understanding to interconnect their infrastructure in the US. [Read more →]
Sunesys Expands into QTS’s Chicago Facility
June 28th, 2017
Yesterday there was some dark fiber news today from Sunesys, which these days is of course a division of Crown Castle. The fiber builder and operator has expanded its dark fiber infrastructure out into Chicago. [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: Windstream, Peak 10, Megapath, 8×8, Ciena
June 28th, 2017
Here’s a quick rundown on some news items from the first half of this week: [Read more →]
Comcast, Charter, Sprint Talk Partnership, Deal, or Something
June 27th, 2017
That’s the merger-related news making the rounds this morning. The cable giants Comcast and Charter are talking with Softbank-controlled Sprint in a two-month period of exclusive negotiations. [Read more →]
The AAE-1 Cable System Is Now Live
June 27th, 2017
The subsea route between southern Europe and the Far East now has a whole lot more bandwidth to work with. The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 consortium today announced that the AAE-1 cable system has entered service. [Read more →]
GTT Strikes Yet Again, to Acquire Global Capacity
June 26th, 2017
Fresh off of deals for Perseus and Giglinx and five months after closing the Hibernia Networks deal, GTT is at it again. This morning they announced an agreement to buy Global Capacity for $100M in cash plus 1.8M shares of GTT common stock, which works out to about $160M. [Read more →]
Australia in new rebuff to Chinese telcos
June 26th, 2017
This article was authored by Lachlan Colquhoun, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
China is Australia’s major business partner and the value of its currency rises and falls almost in line with the price of the iron ore and coal which it sells. [Read more →]
Zayo Inks Webscale Deal Bypassing London
June 23rd, 2017
Friday has lately been Zayo’s favorite day to announce deals with unnamed customers, and today they revealed another one over in Europe. A global webscale company has selected Zayo to connect data centers in Dublin and Amsterdam. [Read more →]