Telecom Ramblings

Verizon’s plans to buy XO Communications cleared a key regulatory hurdle yesterday.  The FCC has given the deal a nod of approval for the $1.8B deal, which still has to finish up with some state regulators.  The deal is still expected to close in the first half of 2017. [Read more →]

Two global network operators revealed yesterday that they are partnering to expand their respective capacity and reach. Sparkle, the international arm of Telecom Italia, and Global Cloud Exchange, which serves the same role for India’s Reliance Communication, are tapping each others infrastructure. [Read more →]

The optical vendor Infinera announced new platforms today that incorporate its Infinite Capacity Engine technology platform, further filling out the company’s next generation portfolio. They’ve added two packet-optical transport modules, two meshponders, and a ROADM product to the mix, complementing the data center interconnection-focused products announced in September. [Read more →]

In the metro world, here are two bits of regional M&A, one contract win, and some data center connectivity to peruse today: [Read more →]

Comcast Business has big fiber plans for Philadelphia. The business services division of the cable giant announced yesterday that it is pouring some $30M into an expansion and upgrade of its fiber depth in the city. [Read more →]

The FCC’s planned votes this week on special access and set top boxes have been canceled, along with several other items. In light of the election win for Donald Trump, Republicans were pressuring FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler not to proceed, and they got what they wanted. [Read more →]

I’m back home in NJ from having a great time at the Telecom Exchange LA event this week, but I came in on the red-eye so I’m still catching up.  In that vein, here’s some quick takes on news from around the world: [Read more →]

The election of Donald Trump as the next US president has everyone scrambling to figure out what he’ll do, and in the last few days that has meant growing speculation about what it might mean over at the FCC. [Read more →]

I’m on the road again this week out at the Telecom Exchange LA. If you are too, come say hi. In the meantime, here’s a few quick takes on news from the start of this week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Mannix O’Connor, Director of Technical Marketing at MRV Communications

With the continuous demand for hyper-scale migrations to the cloud, mobile broadband and high-definition video applications, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) find themselves transforming legacy network infrastructure to next generation packet-based networks. There is a need to [Read more →]

Communications Sales & Leasing announced its Q3 earnings this morning along with another acquisition, it’s third in the last twelve months.  They started off this year buying PEG Bandwidth, and followed up with Tower Cloud.  But their third acquisition isn’t fiber, but rather towers. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Bill Ballmer, ADVA Optical Networking

5 five essential strategies for safeguarding data as it moves between sites

Today’s networks are more at risk than ever before. Data is most susceptible when it’s in motion [Read more →]

It’s been quite a couple of weeks in the world of internet infrastructure.  Here’s a quick look at some other news I didn’t get to initially from the last few days: [Read more →]

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

A look at the telecoms industry news around the world this week reminds us that drone technology is coming fast, and is likely to be a valuable part of the infrastructure mix by the next decade. [Read more →]

The European network infrastructure provider euNetworks posted its third quarter earnings numbers today, which is awfully nice of them seeing as they’re privately held these days.  After a big Q2 in which they had a bit of extra euTrade revenue during a migration, they held most of those gains and saw EBITDA keep marching upward.  Here are their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

The presidential elections haven’t intruded on telecom and internet infrastructure too much, but there was that one moment just a few weeks ago.  Before AT&T and Time Warner even officially announced their deal, Donald Trump made an unsolicited declaration of opposition, calling it too much power in too few hands.  Now that he has won, should we take that threat seriously? [Read more →]

The autumn M&A parade is still marching on by. Yesterday, while I was travelling, Lumos Networks made its first inorganic move in quite a while, announcing the acquisition of Clarity Communications Group. [Read more →]

The autumn M&A season in telecom and internet infrastructure is still popping. This morning we have another key announcement to look at: GTT has agreed to acquire Hibernia Networks for $590M. [Read more →]

I’m on the road on Wednesday at MEF16, so if I check in late on something big you know why. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown on some other news from yesterday worth a look: [Read more →]

Zayo reported its fiscal Q1/2017 earnings this afternoon.  Revenues checked in light at $504.9M, slowed down by lower numbers from the Allstream assets in Canada they are currently integration.  But Zayo found cost savings to more than compensate, turning in higher EBITDA and earnings per share a penny above expectations.  Here are their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

Five bits of news from international carriers, with three new PoPs and two datapoints of SDN and NFV progress. [Read more →]

Zayo revealed a purchase of its own yesterday, acquiring a data center. In this Autumn flurry of M&A, it’s a relatively small move. But it finally puts a Zayo colo facility in a market they have been targeting: Silicon Valley.  [Read more →]

Another M&A rumor has come true.  This morning Windstream and EarthLink followed through on their talks and announced plans to merge their businesses, seeking safety in scale and synergies. [Read more →]