Telecom Ramblings

This article was authored by Lachlan Colquhoun, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Serial telecoms entrepreneur Alexey Reznikovich says that building an “enabled gateway” to customers is the key to survival for traditional telecoms players, who need to stop relying on the diminishing returns from connectivity. [Read more →]

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

Hurricane Electric is expanding its IPv4 and IPv6 backbone deep into the Middle East and Africa with the buildout of three new points of presence. [Read more →]

Over in the UK, the ongoing round of regulatory wrestling match between BT and Ofcom may have finally been decided.  BT has agreed to legally separate its Openreach division, splitting off the company’s fiber and copper infrastructure from the parent’s direct control. [Read more →]

Last year I started hearing that Birch’s M&A run was coming to an end, that the necessary financials had begun to evaporate.  Since the start of the year, however, I have heard things have taken an increasingly difficult turn, with multiple sources claiming that the company has been going through a series of layoffs and has been actively searching for a buyer. [Read more →]

Time to catch up on some other news from content delivery to interconnection to IoT to network expansions: [Read more →]

This morning we have two expansion announcements from Zayo, one over in Europe and the other in northern California. [Read more →]

Here’s a few quick takes in fiber, interconnection, and voice. [Read more →]

Equinix revealed plans yesterday to raise at least $2.875B in public offerings over the next few weeks. The data center giant is lining up the necessary funds to make their previously announced purchase of a selection of Verizon’s data center footprint. [Read more →]

Lightower has made a key addition to its network infrastructure along the Maryland-Virginia border.   They’ve added a new river crossing over the Potomac, adding a diverse route to Ashburn from the north that doesn’t pass through Washington DC. [Read more →]

Here’s some more news from around the world: [Read more →]

FirstLight Fiber has made another consolidation move up in the northeastern region.  The Albany-based fiber infrastructure provider has announced its intent to acquire Finger Lakes Technologies Group. [Read more →]

Let’s do a quick look around the world for news from the last few days that’s worth noting: [Read more →]

Last week Zayo completed its $1.4B acquisition of Electric Lightwave, and immediately started working on the $40M in annual synergies it has planned for the integration.  The first move was apparently to reduce headcount, taking on the unpleasant task of layoffs right off the bat. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Lachlan Colquhoun, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Mobile World Congress 2017 showcased a host of innovative gadgets and prompted some major 5G announcements, but in its timing it caught the telecoms industry at an uncertain point in its development. [Read more →]

Some content delivery, data center, and subsea news for this March friday: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Nav Chander, Senior Director of Marketing at Silver Peak, an SD-WAN solution vendor

In my former role as an industry analyst covering managed services, I advised and interacted with more than 100 leading communication service providers ranging from tier 1 global carriers to tier 3 regional carriers and [Read more →]

If you thought Equinix’s 10 data centers in the DC metro area were enough, you were wrong. The data center builder and operator has purchased four new parcels of land in Loudon County, Virginia. [Read more →]

According to reports this morning, the UK will soon be getting a new bandwidth competitor. The Irish open access provider enet has signed a network partnership with SSE Enterprise Telecoms, giving them optical reach throughout the UK. [Read more →]

Time for a quick rundown of some news at the regional and metro level: [Read more →]

Here’s some more network news from around the world to look over: [Read more →]

With MWC underway over in Barcelona and 5G and IoT on everyone’s drawing board in some form, there are quite a few announcements this week covering a wide range of network upgrade projects and such. [Read more →]

The global data center giant Equinix is making an inorganic move in the Alpine nation of Switzerland.  In a deal that will augment its Swiss footprint without the need to build from scratch, Equinix has agreed to acquire the data center business of ICT-Center AG. [Read more →]