Telecom Ramblings

For the last year and a half or so, smart kiosks from LinkNYC have been popping up all over New York City replacing old pay telephones, each equipped with Wi-Fi, an embedded tablet, and large advertising panels.  Behind it all is CityBridge, which itself is backed by a complex coalition of tech companies that includes Google parent Alphabet through its Sidewalk Labs subsidiary and Qualcomm.  But in August, what had been a bit of an open secret finally got a little public recognition.  Each of those kiosks is connected via the new fiber network being built from scratch by ZenFi.  With us today to [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news from early this week and late last week: [Read more →]

Seaborn Networks and IOX Cable Ltd are teaming up to offer a new way to send bits from North America to India.  The plan is to leverage Seaborn’s new Seabras-1 cable to Brazil, the soon to be built SABR system from there over to southern Africa, and then the proposed IOX system across the Indian ocean to India. [Read more →]

Colt Technology Services has announced plans to upgrade its subsea capabilities and to add network assets in North America.  The pan-European and Asian regional operator is going to increase its capabilities in the USA and Canada. [Read more →]

This year’s least-secret merger negotiations ended over the weekend, so there will be no deal this time either. Sprint and T-Mobile US have officially called off their talks on a deal. The stumbling block appears to have been the fact that Softbank would not [Read more →]

The pan-European fiber and network services provider euNetworks is going to be changing hands this winter. Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire a majority interest in the company. [Read more →]

TGIF, here are a few quick takes before it’s time to rake some leaves this November weekend. [Read more →]

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

Japan’s NTT Com has launched a new ultra-low latency connectivity service between the financial markets of Tokyo in Japan and Chicago in the United States. [Read more →]

Zayo revealed plans for yet another expansion of its footprint in Indiana today.  On the menu is fiber-to-the-tower for another 70 towers in the state in response to the winning of a new major wireless customer. [Read more →]

A vendor win, some data center news, and some cloud communications M&A activity: [Read more →]

It has taken a year and a day to jump through all the regulatory hoops, but the CenturyLink/Level 3 deal finally closed this morning.  The $34B combination puts the combined company 51% in the hands of former CenturyLink shareholders and 49% in the hands of former Level 3 shareholders. [Read more →]

The third quarter was a busy one for euNetworks, which posted solid growth while adding some significant new longhaul and metro assets to its network.  Revenue grew to €34.9M while normalized adjusted EBITDA expanded to €13.1M.  Here are a few of the ir numbers in some context: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some other news from this week: [Read more →]

The year’s least secret M&A negotiations have apparently hit a snag.  News reports overnight suggest that Sprint may be about to abandon its attempts to merge with T-Mobile US.   [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Michael Quinn, Gerry DeHaven and Andrew Gaffney of Q Advisors

On October 23, Cisco announced an agreement to acquire BroadSoft, the leading provider of cloud-based unified communications and collaboration solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash, or $55 per share.  The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018.  The purchase price represents [Read more →]

TE SubCom said yesterday that the supply contract for the Jupiter Cable system has come into force.  The project’s partners include the Asian carriers PLDT, NTT Communications, PCCW Global, and Softbank, and the US-based tech giants Facebook and Amazon. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup from around the world after a very wet weekend here in New Jersey: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Fady Masoud, Principal Product & Field Marketing, Infinera

While cloud-based content and services such as social media are shaping our day-to-day lives, internet content providers (ICPs) have been redefining how the underlying cloud networks are architected and operated. In the past few years, ICPs have become a major driving force behind [Read more →]

An email went out this morning to Console’s customers and partners with an update. The interconnection platform has apparently sold off its network services business to the former founder of IX Reach. [Read more →]

A new data center, a new certification, and some new PoPs. [Read more →]

Unite Private Networks has some new Texas infrastructure planned in response to a new customer contract.  UPN is deploying a 4x100Gbps wavelength solution for one of the largest retailers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. [Read more →]

vXchnge has added another edge market to its portfolio this week.  Yesterday they announced the purchase of a data center in the Texan capital of Austin.   [Read more →]

QTS yesterday unveiled some big plans for expansion in northern Virginia. Apparently they have been acquiring land in Ashburn over the last few months, and have now begun new construction on a campus of what could reach 700,000 square feet and 140MW of power. [Read more →]