Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

Here’s a few news bytes from vendors seeing their gear deployed around the world: [Read more →]

The terrestrial path between the Far East and Europe has been gaining importance steadily over the last 5-10 years, and today another option was unveiled.  RETN and Transtelecom (Kazakhstan) have partnered to launch TRANSKZ, which connects RETN’s European network with Hong Kong by crossing Kazakhstan. [Read more →]

A day after announcing its planned acquisition of FairPoint, Consolidated Communications has made another inorganic move but in the opposite direction. They have entered into a definitive agreement to sell their Enterprise Services equipment and IT Services business to the systems integrator ePlus. [Read more →]

This morning we have yet more consolidation to add to the pile that has been accumulating during the final quarter of 2016. Equinix has agreed to purchase a portfolio of 29 data centers on 24 sites from none other than Verizon. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some interesting news from three international network and infrastructure players: [Read more →]

The final months of this year have seen a flurry of infrastructure deals, and this week starts off with another.  Consolidated Communications has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire FairPoint Communications in an all-stock deal worth about $1.5B. [Read more →]