Tuesday Roundup: Windstream, Lumos, ADVA, GENBAND, Conversant

March 15th, 2016
 

Here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that the industry started off with this week, both domestic and international: [Read more →]

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Birch Makes Its Move On Canada, Will Indeed Buy Primus

March 14th, 2016
 

Birch Communications has spent the last decade rolling up network and CLEC assets from around the USA, but its 28th consecutive deal takes the company across the border and into Canada for the first time and in a big way.  Reports from January had them sniffing around Primus Telecommunications, which was seeking protection from creditors, and they have indeed followed through with an agreement to buy the company’s assets. [Read more →]

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HGC launches wholesale mobile fronthaul service

March 14th, 2016
 

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

ITEM: Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC) revealed plans Wednesday to launch what is being billed as one of the the world’s first wholesale active mobile fronthaul service in Hong Kong. [Read more →]

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With Indonesian, South African Moves, IBM Looks to Bolster Telco Clouds

March 11th, 2016
 

IBM today revealed a significant cloud services deal in the APAC region that could be a sign of things to come. The Indonesian telecommunications provider Indosat Ooredoo and its subsidiary Lintasarta have signed a five year partnership deal to develop and deliver solutions via the IBM cloud to its customer base.  [Read more →]

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Network Bytes: Level 3, Phonoscope, CityFibre, Global Capacity

March 10th, 2016
 

For this Thursday morning, let’s quickly review a few bits of network-related news that is worth a look: [Read more →]

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Fiber M&A: Partners Group to Acquire Axia NetMedia

March 10th, 2016
 

There’s a bit of fiber M&A activity out there this week in a lesser known corner of the sector. Axia NetMedia has a private equity suitor. Partners Group has agreed to acquire the Toronto-listed network builder and operator.  [Read more →]

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Telefonica Plans New BRUSA Cable System

March 9th, 2016
 

Telefonica today revealed plans for a new submarine cable system linking North and South America.  The new cable, called BRUSA, will connect the Brazilian cities of Fortaleza and Rio de Janerio with the Puerto Rican port of San Juan and the Mid-Atlantic city of Virginia Beach. [Read more →]

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Equinix Taps Facebook’s Tech For Its Ecosystem

March 9th, 2016
 

Equinix is looking to a new source of inspiration to further build out the ecosystem within its vast inventory of data centers.  They have tapped the insights and developments of the tech giant Facebook and the Open Compute Project. [Read more →]

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Telstra Goes Deeper Into SDN, NFV With Cisco’s Help

March 9th, 2016
 

While the news over at Cisco has been about cloud-related technology acquisitions, yesterday they were part of an interesting APAC announcement down under. Telstra is using Cisco’s software platform to bring SDN and NFV powered products to market. [Read more →]

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With HGC Win, Infinera Aims at C-RAN

March 9th, 2016
 

Hutchison Global Communications is upgrading its metro capabilities in its home market of Hong Kong with some help from Infinera. HGC is deploying Infinera’s TM-Series Mobile Fronthaul solution as it prepares for the advent of 5G and all the extra bandwidth that will be required to hook up towers and small cells to make it happen. [Read more →]

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Colo Bytes: Digital Realty, Equinix, CyrusOne, Keystone

March 9th, 2016
 

Several colo-related items from this week’s news that are worth a quick look: [Read more →]

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Tuesday Roundup: DQE, EdgeConneX, Independents, FirstLight

March 8th, 2016
 

Here are three interesting metro and regional fiber items worth a look today: [Read more →]

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Vendor Bytes: Integra Optics, Cisco, Ericsson, Bandwidth

March 8th, 2016
 

Here are a few interesting news bytes from the vendors from the early part of this week: [Read more →]

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Europe Gets Level 3’s Carrier Ethernet

March 7th, 2016
 

Level 3 unveiled some new capabilities this morning over in Europe. The global network operator has expanded its Carrier Ethernet 2.0 footprint onto its pan-European network. [Read more →]

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Davos, MWC and the end or new chapter of history

March 7th, 2016
 

This article was authored by Jouko Ahvenainen, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

The World Economic Forum brings the top business and political leaders to Davos late January. Mobile World Congress brings mobile, internet professionals and executives to Barcelona in late February. Normally [Read more →]

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Int’l Roundup: Accedian, Epsilon, Interxion, Equinix

March 4th, 2016
 

Here’s a quick Friday recap of some news items from around the world from this week: [Read more →]

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The Network Core Is No More

March 4th, 2016
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Clint Heiden, Chief Commercial Officer of EdgeConneX

2016…a new year full of limitless potential; but as we look onward in preparation for what’s to come, it’s also critical to take a look at where we’ve come from and gain some perspective. Though the Internet of Things (IoT) is among the most widely-used terms in the industry today, if we apply the principle to an earlier Internet period, we see a much different picture. [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Windstream, Lightpath, Zito, Zayo

March 3rd, 2016
 

Here’s a set of quick takes on a few items of interest in the metro and regional fiber world: [Read more →]

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euNetworks Posts Solid Revenue, EBITDA Gains

March 3rd, 2016
 

While no longer publicly traded, euNetworks is still keeping the markets up to date on its quarterly financial progress and thus remains an interesting pure-play fiber infrastructure window into into Europe.  This morning they posted their Q4/2015 numbers, finishing out the year on a decidedly positive note.  Here is a quick tabular summary: [Read more →]

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TelePacific to Buy DSCI, Make a Move On the East Coast

March 2nd, 2016
 

A little less than five years after first expanding beyond the west coast and into Texas with the Telwest purchase, TelePacific has made an even bigger inorganic move.  Today they announced an agreement to acquire DSCI, a managed services and cloud communications provider based in Waltham, Massachusetts. [Read more →]

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Wednesday Bytes: Southern Telecom, UPN, CenturyLink, Birch, MEF

March 2nd, 2016
 

Here’s a quick look at a few items from the first half of the week – a couple buildouts, a new service, a federal contract extension, and a new hire: [Read more →]

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Int’l Roundup: TI Sparkle, NTT, Hibernia, Megaport

March 1st, 2016
 

Here are a few interesting items from around the world that are worth a note: [Read more →]

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What Track Will the New Fiber Heat Follow?

March 1st, 2016
 

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

Recently we had two pieces of eye-opening news on fiber optic network. One is Google Fiber made an agreement with the City of Huntsville, Alabama to bring high speed broadband Internet to the community. The nuance for this case is that Google will use the fiber network the [Read more →]

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