Telecom Ramblings

Two years ago, Equinix added a fuel cell option to its SV5 data center in Silicon Valley, via a lone deployment of technology from Bloom Energy.  They must have liked how it worked out, because yesterday they revealed an expansion of the project to twelve facilities on both coasts. [Read more →]

Over in Europe, euNetworks has added a new metro fiber market to its footprint.   The English city of Manchester is the target of the latest buildout, following the company’s initial expansion there in May of last year. [Read more →]

FTS Fiber has won another contract on Maryland’s eastern shore.  The commissioners of Queen Anne’s County voted last week 3-2 in favor of an $8.7M contract to spread broadband through the county. [Read more →]

Here are some quick takes on other news from the start of this week: [Read more →]

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

Ericsson, Intel and Japan’s NTT are among the members of a new consortium aimed at developing a networking and computing ecosystem for connected cars. [Read more →]

Late last week there was another fiber M&A that slipped through my nets for a couple days. The European private equity firm EQT Infrastructure has bought a majority stake in Spirit Communications.  [Read more →]

For the past several years, Telecom Ramblings has been a proud sponsor of a charity golf tournament raising money for the Mighty Oakes Heart Foundation.  Originally held by PEG Bandwidth and continued by Uniti Fiber, they’ll be holding the fifth annual such event this autumn. [Read more →]

One has to wonder what perfume Charter is wearing these days. Verizon is said to have kicked the tires and had a bid rejected. Softbank has been looking to combine the cable operator with Sprint somehow, though they don’t seem to have gotten very far yet either. And now it’s Altice that has apparently been drawn to Charter’s charms. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some other news from the last 24 hours or so: [Read more →]

Hudson Fiber Network is expanding its global reach with some help from Epsilon.  The two announced a broader partnership that will add to Hudson Fiber’s reach in both Asia and Europe. [Read more →]

The project to connect the continents of Africa and South America via a subsea fiber cable has officially been launched.  Yesterday Angola Cables kicked off construction of one of the key infrastructure pieces of SACS. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some other news from this week that’s worth a look: [Read more →]

Tata Communications and CoreSite have forged a new relationship. The two companies say they have joined forces to bring a combined data center, interconnection, managed hosting, and cloud enablement to the enterprise marketplace. [Read more →]

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

Japan’s NTT, KDDI and Sumitomo have set a new transmission capacity record of 118.5Tbps over conventional thickness optical fiber. [Read more →]

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

This is the second installment in a multi-part Industry Viewpoint series about the relationship between carriers and smart cities initiatives by Brian Proffit. Proffit recently joined Adtell as vice president of Smart Cities Infrastructure. 

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

I opened this series with a quote from Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. My aim here was to illustrate the polar extremes [Read more →]

Let’s take a quick tour through a few other other earnings reports from network operators from yesterday: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dan Faulkner, Senior Vice President & GM at Nuance Communications

We’ve all heard the saying “don’t sweat the small stuff” – there are hundreds of books, websites, and speeches dedicated to the topic (along with an army of t-shirts and tchotchkes).  The philosophy is built around [Read more →]

Lots of earnings reports out this morning, apparently it’s a popular day.  Over in Europe, euNetworks posted a strong growth quarter in the bandwidth infrastructure space.  Here are their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

With the CenturyLink deal inching closer every day, this is probably the last pure Level 3 earnings report to cover.  Level 3 had a good second quarter, seeing its third consecutive quarter of CNS revenue growth and beating analyst expectations on the bottom line.  Here are Level 3’s numbers in some context: [Read more →]

The next big telecommunications and infrastructure purchasing vehicle for the US Government has been awarded.  The GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solution contract has some 10 winners, which means it’s the usual suspects plus a few one might not have expected. [Read more →]

The rumors were true, as they always seem to be of late.  There are few true secrets in fiber M&A these days it seems.  After the markets closed today, Verizon announced the purchase of a fiber network in Chicago from WideOpenWest. [Read more →]

Here’s some other network news from the start of this week that’s worth a look: [Read more →]