Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

Zayo reported its fiscal Q4 2018 results yesterday after the bell.  The company posted revenues of $657.6M, adjusted EBITDA of $324.9M, and earnings per share of $0.18.  The markets may have wanted a bit more in the revenue department, but they don’t seem to have been surprised that they didn’t get it.  Here are a few of Zayo’s numbers in some context: [Read more →]

This summer’s unresolved merger dances are concentrated pretty heavily in APAC this year.  Today Australia is abuzz with a new one: TPG Telecom and Vodafone Australia are talking about shacking up together. [Read more →]

Conterra Networks has consolidated a bit more infrastructure down along the Gulf Coast. Following their deals earlier this year of Network USA and Detel, Conterra has announced an agreement to acquire Longview-based Network Communications. [Read more →]

Some E-Rate news, an investment by a familiar face, and a new data center near Chicago. [Read more →]

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

India’s Bharti Airtel is reportedly setting up an independent fiber subsidiary, and may turn it into a wholesale infrastructure provider. [Read more →]

According to the Financial Times, Reliance Communications now has two bids in hand for different parts of its remaining telecommunications business, which includes Global Cloud Xchange’s global subsea network as well as Indian data center and fixed line network assets.  Both bidders are from the private equity community. [Read more →]