Telecom Ramblings

The ongoing efforts to build a new cable system between the west coast of the US and Australia/New Zealand by way of Hawaii and American Samoa has achieved a new milestone.  Hawaiki and TE SubCom have issued a project update as they move into the next phase, the actual laying of the cable. [Read more →]

There is some fiber M&A going on out in the Midwest today.  Neutral Path Communications has revealed a definitive agreement to acquire Infinity Fiber, LLC in a deal that will extend its reach east and south from Chicago. [Read more →]

The fiber infrastructure builder and operator SummitIG has announced plans to further expand its footprint.  On the menu is a network expansion that will add another 50 route miles to the company’s network this year, boosting the current 500 route miles by 10% by the end of 2017. [Read more →]

Now that 100G has been with us for most of a decade, we should be about due for the next wave of technology.  And indeed we have started to see 200G solutions come out, and 400G appears to be just about ready.  Ciena is one of the companies pushing technology past current boundaries and is actively rolling out its own solution.  With us today to tell us what to expect and when to expect it is Ciena’s Helen Xenos. Helen is a senior director on the portfolio marketing team at Ciena and bears responsibility for taking the company’s converged packet-optical and high capacity coherent solutions to market. [Read more →]

According to a blog over at Microsoft, the Marea transatlantic cable has been successfully installed.  It’s been a joint project between Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius, and it’s taken just two years to bring to fruition. [Read more →]

TGIF, and here’s a few other news items from this week that are worth a look: [Read more →]

The interconnection and cloud connectivity markets have been evolving rapidly over the last few years.  Yesterday two of the companies that have been shaking things up in their respective areas have announced a new partnership. [Read more →]

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

An increase in mobile broadband penetration directly causes significant growth in a country’s GDP, according to research from Ericsson and the Imperial College of London. [Read more →]

With the CenturyLink deal looming ever closer, Level 3 has landed a significant contract in the government vertical.  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has awarded the Broomfield-based network operator a 5-year, $79M contract. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news from around the industry: [Read more →]

The seasons are changing, which means of course that we need to refresh our wireless M&A rumors.  You’ll never guess who is talking about a mega-merger this time.  Ok, maybe you will. [Read more →]

An IX expansion, a retirement, two new products, and a makeover: [Read more →]

The Canadian data center market has been getting more and more attention lately, especially as more and more internet infrastructure investments are focused at the edge, outside the handful of core nodes that have traditionally dominated.  One such market is that of Montreal, the home of ROOT Data Center.  With us today to talk about the data center business up north is ROOT’s CEO AJ Byers.  Prior to taking the helm at ROOT, AJ led Black Iron Data until its sale to Rogers, when he became the division’s president. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

With SD-WAN becoming more popular in the WAN infrastructure marketplace, IT and telecom consultants like myself are often asked such questions by enterprise clients as that there are dozens of SD-WAN vendors out there, which one [Read more →]

Some news from around the world to start off this Monday morning: [Read more →]

Colt has been busy adding some fiber to its diet in the eastern hemisphere. They are in the process of building a metro footprint in Singapore and have begun the buildout of a new metro network in Hong Kong. [Read more →]

One data center launch, some new hires in metro fiber, a new office in central Asia, and some interconnection milestones: [Read more →]

EdgeConneX is taking its edge data center footprint across the US/Canada border for the first time. The company’s first Canadian Edge Data Center and 40th overall is planned to be opened in Toronto. [Read more →]

An update on the CenturyLink/Level 3 deal, some new fiber and cloud connectivity, and an SaaS adoption: [Read more →]

New York City is going to have some more fixed wireless competition going forward.  Skywire Networks has landed $23M in financing from Metropolitan Partners Group as part of an effort to greatly expand its list of on-net buildings, which currently stands at 400. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick survey of some news from the past few days through this morning: [Read more →]

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

Singtel has revealed plans to progressively shut down its copper-based ADSL networks as part of a push to accelerate fiber based service adoption to business and residential customers. [Read more →]

Equinix has found another M&A target and a new international market region to attack.  The global data center company has entered into an agreement to acquire the cloud and data center specialist Itconic. [Read more →]