Telecom Ramblings

CenturyLink’s cloud ambitions remain, and this morning they did another small M&A aimed at bringing more technology and talent in-house.  CenturyLink has acquired ElasticBox, whose main claim to fame is a multi-cloud application management service.   [Read more →]

Fiber will soon be coming to a piece of Maryland that has rarely gotten the attention of the market.  FTS Fiber, a builder and operator of dark fiber infrastructure that I haven’t run into until now, revealed plans yesterday to begin construction of a significant fiber build in rural Kent Count, Maryland. [Read more →]

Here are several bits of vendor news that are worth a look for this Monday morning: [Read more →]

EdgeConneX’s expansion into the enterprise interconnection space arrived in the rust belt this morning. They’ve teamed up with Console, which is deploying its interconnection platform at the company’s Detroit edge data center in Southfield, Michigan. [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

There are many conversations to be had about network virtualization in general, and SDN in particular. One conversation we don’t always hear about is the human factor – which is to say resistance from telecoms department heads who see SDN as a challenge to their livelihoods, [Read more →]

We have a new job listing on the Ramblings Jobs Board this week, as well as two others from a couple weeks ago that I failed to call out at the time. [Read more →]

The question of who will buy Yahoo is stubbornly staying at the top of the tech and telecom news, and the most recent twist suggests that Verizon may no longer be the front runner. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ed Ogonek, CENX

While everyone focuses on the cool wristbands, industrial sensors, data-driven applications and the compelling end-user experience, the real smarts in the Internet of Things (IoT) is largely hidden from the public, and from the media too: The intelligence is in the network, and in the software that keeps that network humming. [Read more →]

Here’s some interesting network news, both international and domestic: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news at mid-week from Onvoy, EarthLink, and Fairpoint. [Read more →]

Reports yesterday suggest that Verizon’s interest in buying Yahoo’s internet assets remain intact, and it will apparently be submitting a second round bid in the $3B range.  That’s down from the numbers people were talking about last month, before bidders got a look under the hood.   [Read more →]

Lightower has itself an energy utility as an anchor customer for a new organic buildout in the state of Delaware.  The Delaware Electric Cooperative has selected the fiber builder and operator to build a 250 mile fiber network hooking up 28 sites around the state, including offices, control centers, and substations. [Read more →]

The Internet of Things is one of the bigger buzzwords this year, promising the connection of billions of devices of varying sorts to our global infrastructure and along the way reshuffling how we think of that infrastructure.  As usual the hype is probably well ahead of reality, but that doesn’t mean that carriers and vendors alike shouldn’t be looking for the right way to position themselves.  Today two of them paired off with a new plan. [Read more →]

One of New Jersey’s larger data center facilities has changed hands this week.  QTS has purchased the NJ-1 campus and customer base  of DuPont Fabros Technology in Piscataway, adding some 38 acres and 360,000 square feet of raw space to its portfolio. [Read more →]

Back in the saddle again this week, and here’s a few things I’m catching up on: [Read more →]

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

Japan’s KDDI has teamed up with Toyota to establish a global communications platform to support connected cars. [Read more →]

Almost back in the saddle now, just in time for the weekend.  Here’s a quick look at some interesting metro news from four markets around the US, three data center connectivity expansions and one bit of e-Rate news: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Alan Zeichick, Principal Analyst, Camden Associates.

APAC countries must take note of the prevalence of ransomware attacks in the U.S. and Europe. The good news is that tools and technologies are emerging to combat these cybercrimes.

Ransomware is a huge problem that’s causing real harm to businesses and individuals. Technology service providers are gearing up to fight these cyberattacks – and that’s coming none too soon. [Read more →]

Ciena’s stock price is up 10% in pre-market trading this morning after what looks like well-received fiscal Q2 earnings report.  Revenues of  $640.7M and adjusted earnings per share of $0.34 were both in excess of analyst projections, which were looking for something in the $630M and $0.27 range. [Read more →]

I’m still flat on my back with a cold, but trying to keep up.  Here’s another set of quick-takes of the news from the last day or two: [Read more →]

East Africa needs another submarine cable system, or so Djibouti Tleocom and six other regional telecommunications operators are betting.  Yesterday an agreement to build the Djibouti-Africa Regional Express, or DARE, was signed, with TE SubCom on tap for the actual construction. [Read more →]

Your humble editor has a bad cold this week, so if he fails to make sense it’s probably the antihistamines.  Here’s a quick rundown of a few  news items worth noting so far in this post-Memorial-Day short week: [Read more →]

Consolidation in the UC space can be either about scale or about technology.  The UCaaS and software provider BroadSoft made one of the latter early this morning, announcing the acquisition of Intellinote.   [Read more →]