Telecom Ramblings

Lake Ontario is going to be getting its very own submarine cable system if plans by Crosslake Fibre come to fruition. The company announced its intention this morning for a new cable system connecting the cities of Toronto, Canada and Buffalo, New York via a more direct, albeit wet route. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news items from across the sector from early this week: [Read more →]

Seaborn Networks has picked a partner to help make its mark on the world of finance. The submarine cable operator has announced that Spread Networks will be their exclusive channel partner for sales to the financial vertical. [Read more →]

The auction for Straight Path Communications took another sharp turn this morning. The company has announced that it finds the latest revised offer from an unnamed multi-national telecommunications operator constitutes a ‘superior proposal’. [Read more →]

Some fiber, data center, vendor, network news to peruse on this Monday morning: [Read more →]

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

Global revenues from telecommunications application programming interfaces (APIs) is on track to reach $207 billion worldwide by 2022, Research and Markets has predicted. [Read more →]

Zayo quietly made another acquisition yesterday.  The Boulder-based infrastructure company has completed the purchase of two data centers from KIO Networks for $12M, boosting its infrastructure in southern California further.   [Read more →]

Here are four other quick takes on earnings reports from network operators from this week: [Read more →]

Yesterday Level 3 Communications posted its Q1 2017 numbers, finding some growth on the enterprise front in the Americas.  The combination with CenturyLink is expected to close during Q3, and sometimes there can be a bit of focus lost between announcement and closure, but so far Level 3 seems to be holding pretty steady.  Here are the company’s numbers in some context: [Read more →]

In the first quarter of 2017, the European pureplay fiber network operator euNetworks kept on executing on its plans, posting higher revenue and spending plenty of it on new network deployments.  Here are the company’s results in some context: [Read more →]

A few contract wins, partnerships, and product launches to note for this week: [Read more →]

Yesterday CenturyLink completed the sale of its data centers and colocation business to a consortium of private equity buyers that they announced last November.  That consortium, which includes BC Partners, Medina Capital Advisors, and Longview asset Management, has re-launched the assets as part of a new company, Cyxtera Technologies. [Read more →]

In most people’s minds, one of the biggest hurdles enterprises struggle with when it comes to migrating the cloud is that they may have to sacrifice some security along the way.  But is that really the case?  With us today to talk about the realities of data security systems in today’s cloud-powered network world is Bryan Doerr, CEO of Observable Networks.  Before taking the helm at Observable Networks, Bryan was CTO of Savvis for a decade.  [Read more →]

Cisco’s eternal appetite for acquisitions announced what the next course will be.  The network technology giant will be buying Viptela and combining the San-Jose-based vendor’s SD-WAN technology with its own efforts and moving further toward a software model that produces more reliably recurring revenue. [Read more →]

Late last week, the USA division of Altice revealed the extent of its recent progress in the education vertical. The company’s Lightpath metro fiber division has connected another 47 New Jersey schools and school districts to its regional network in the NYC metro area. [Read more →]

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

The benefits of VoIP access and SIP trunking services are prompting enterprise customers to transition to fully converged, IP-based networks, without having to overhaul existing IT networks, according to Frost & Sullivan. [Read more →]

As expected, yesterday new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has unveiled his plans to roll back the net neutrality regime put in place during the Obama administration by his predecessor, Tom Wheeler.  Under the proposed rulemaking, not only will Title II be withdrawn from the internet but the FCC will cede oversight of such things to the FTC.  What do you think?  Have your say in the poll below: [Read more →]

Last year Google Fiber stopped launching new markets.  A shakeout in their management team soon followed as did the purchase of Webpass, which indicated the reason lay in the promise/threat of new wireless technologies changing the economics of the last mile.  And then there was silence, until now. [Read more →]

On Tuesday of this week there was some M&A in the data center space that I managed to miss.  365 Data Centers has been acquired by an investor group led by Chirisa Investments and including Lumerity Capital and Longboat Advisors.  The new owners have brought in Bob DeSantis, formerly co-founder and managing partner at Xand, as the new CEO. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some news from around the world: [Read more →]

Today FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is expected to unveil his plan for network neutrality. He’ll be speaking this afternoon at the Newseum in Washington DC, and will be discussing in what way and by how much he’ll be pushing to roll back what former chairman Tom Wheeler put in place. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some recent news items: [Read more →]

I’ve been somewhat amazed how seriously people are taking the possibility that Comcast and Verizon could be the next big merger.  The idea was floated by Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam last week alongside other similarly grand ideas like Disney and CBS, and since then analysts and journalists have been offering some up a few thoughts.  One quote I have seen comes from BTIG Research: [Read more →]