Telecom Ramblings

There was a bit of fiber M&A over in northern Europe yesterday.  The private equity outfit EQT’s Infrastructure fund is acquiring Denmark-based GlobalConnect A/S. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some of the interesting news from the past 24 hours or so: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

SD-WAN will boom in next two year. Based on the survey result unveiled at Light Reading’s Executive Summit in Rome early this month, SD-WAN technology is either critical or important for telecom operators looking to automate their operations and reduce service costs, according to 84% of telco respondents to this new survey. [Read more →]

Xura is taking aim at every layer of the mobile network infrastructure stack with twin acquisitions of Mitel Mobile and Ranzure. Xura itself was bought and taken private by Siris Capital earlier this year for $643M, and Siris clearly sees it as a consolidation platform for 5G technologies. [Read more →]

Akamai has made an inorganic move to expand its security services portfolio this morning.  The CDN and cloud services provider has announced the acquisition of Silicon-Valley-based Cyberfend. [Read more →]

The market for ultra-low latency connections doesn’t get the press it used to, but it’s definitely still there.  Today Avelacom took the wraps off a new DWDM route between London and Moscow, cutting the RTT latency by a bit over 2 milliseconds while adding new PoPs along the way. [Read more →]

When Donald Trump is inaugurated as the next US president in 5 weeks or so, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will already be gone.  He announced yesterday his plans to resign from the commission on January 20, 2017, handing control of the regulatory body over to the Republican party. [Read more →]

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

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. [Read more →]

According to Capacity, construction on the SEA-ME-WE-5 submarine cable is now finished.   [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some other news from this week: [Read more →]

It’s been a busy quarter for fiber and colo M&A, but today’s deal comes from the vendor side.  Nokia has announced plans to acquire Deepfield, boosting its real time analytics capabilities for IP networking. [Read more →]

AT&T announced the win of an interesting government contract today.  NASA  has tapped the telecommunications giant to provide a high speed VPN hooking up the giant radio antennas of the Deep Space Network. [Read more →]

Here’s a look at several news items of note from yesterday and today: [Read more →]

Zayo announced another connectivity win with a global enterprise yesterday. As has been their pattern for much of this year, the actual enterprise is un-named, but the bandwidth is real enough. [Read more →]

Philadelphia is looking to upgrade its Institutional Network capabilities, and it is turning to Comcast Business to supply the necessary metro fiber infrastructure. Philadelphia is of course the cable giant’s hometown, an inside track that probably didn’t hurt. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of quick-takes on some of the news items out this morning: [Read more →]

Of the various technologies that are expected to make 5G possible, it is perhaps C-RAN that will require the biggest shifts in deployment.  And so, I have a feeling that we’re going to be hearing quite a bit about C-RAN tests and demos throughout 2017.  We’re not yet done with 2016 of course, but this morning it was Vodafone and Nokia that announced a successful test. [Read more →]

We have two new job listings to peruse over on the Ramblings Jobs Board.  They were actually posted earlier than this last week, but I was out sick (dang flu) at the time and didn’t get this email done at the time. [Read more →]

In June of this year, CyrusOne bought 40 acres from the Kincora project in Northern Virginia’s Loudoun County.  It was not exactly a secret what the company planned to do with that land, and indeed today the company announced it has broken ground on the construction of what will be its fifth data center in the state. [Read more →]

For a little Friday catch-up, one packet networking deployment, one interconnection strategic partnership, and a metro market update: [Read more →]

Ciena reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings this morning, offering its usual extra month of insight into the state of the market. [Read more →]

Here are several interesting quick takes on news from the metro fiber sector: [Read more →]

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

This year didn’t bring much new in the telecoms and mobile device businesses, it was just more organic development, nothing really new or game changing. The network side is waiting for [Read more →]