Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

Here’s five data center and interconnection items worth a look: [Read more →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some news items from the first half of this week: [Read more →]

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 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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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

Here’s some metro and regional connectivity news to take a look at: [Read more →]

Comcast Business has been busy this week with two announcements on the metro fiber connectivity front.  Both are aimed at urban innovation hub opportunities in the northeast. [Read more →]

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

Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) to grow 17% year over year in 2017, and to be near $1.4 trillion by 2021, according to IDC. [Read more →]

Moving data to the edge has been a mantra over the last couple of years, and today we have another company launching a unique take on it.  Vapor IO has unveiled Project Volutus, an undertaking that will put micro data centers right at the cell tower site. [Read more →]

Last week we learned that GTT bought Perseus, adding depth in the financial vertical. But actually that’s GTT’s second acquisition of the Spring. In May they quietly closed an acquisition of the assets and customer base of Giglinx Global, Inc. according to Giglinx’s President Marcus Mamolen. [Read more →]

The telecom software vendor CENX announced new leadership today. Ed Kennedy will be the company’s new President and CEO. He’ll lead the next phase of CENX’s growth, in which they take the company’s maturing network operations and LSO platform to a wider audience. [Read more →]

NTT Communications this morning took the wraps off its latest network upgrade. The international arm of the Japanese giant NTT has launched its SD-WAN portfolio globally. And by globally, they do mean with coverage spanning 190+ countries. [Read more →]

One of the less noisy metro fiber players offered up a progress report this week as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.  DQE Comunications says it has passed the 3,000 fiber route mile mark.   [Read more →]