Telecom Ramblings

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

I have just traveled in Asia. I had to coordinate many meetings, and many contacts said “this is my number, let’s exchange details in WhatsApp, what’s your number?” The problem is that I have several phones and also, when I travel, I buy local pre-paid cards. So, I’m almost always online, but I don’t know the phone number beforehand. Why we still are stuck with these phone numbers? [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some of the early infrstructure news from around the world: [Read more →]

One of the most dynamic segments in the market today is that of interconnection and cloud connectivity.  Automation is key, and the shift from a telco mindset to a DevOps approach is something we are hearing about on many fronts.  One company that has been shifting its model in this way is Epsilon Communications, which has been in the interconnection business for many years.  With us today to talk about the company’s approach and plans for the future is Jerzy Szlosarek, who just took the CEO chair in November 2015 after serving as CTO and COO for more than a decade. [Read more →]

Zayo has won another fiber-to-the-tower deal, this time in its home turf along Colorado’s Front Range.  A major wireless carrier has signed on for a dark fiber solution that will help it implement a C-RAN architecture in the region. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some other items to finish out the week: two bits of M&A news and an interesting global interconnection collaboration. [Read more →]

Windstream made two interesting announcements in the enterprise space yesterday.  One was a high profile contract win with the Green Bay Packers, and the other featured the addition of SD-WAN to their product set. [Read more →]

Also happening earlier this week but under my radar was a data center infrastructure M&A.  DataBank has signed a definitive agreement to acquire C7 Data Centers, taking its show out west for the first time. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick update on some subsea cable news from this week: [Read more →]

There was some fiber M&A earlier this week that slipped past my nets.   Conterra, which is majority-owned by Court Square Capital, has announced the acquisition of two regional fiber operators: Detel and Broadplex. [Read more →]

Here’s another quick roundup of some more of the rapidfire news we’ve seen go out this week: [Read more →]

Ok, it’s time for another poll.  We have a new president coming in this week and a particularly unpredictable one at that.  What should we expect from the FCC when it comes to net neutrality?  No, not what *should* happen to net neutrality, but what *will*.  It’s prediction time, make your call: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some network news that’s also worth a look: [Read more →]

Lots of news out there this week, coinciding with the arrival of the PTC conference out in Hawaii. Here’s a quick rundown of a few interesting items from the IX and colo space: [Read more →]

On the metro fiber front, Wilcon is planning a significant amount of new infrastructure out in California.  The company is expanding its fiber reach in order to serve the backhaul needs of small cells in downtown Los Angeles. [Read more →]

The next transpacific cable system appears to be approaching the finish line.  SEA-US has had two announcements over the last day or two detailing the progress of the buildout of the necessary infrastructure. [Read more →]

This week, a new cloud-centric network operator has launched.  PacketFabric aims to bring more of the flexibility and provisioning ease seen in cloud computing into the world of networking and interconnection via an SDN-powered, Ethernet-based connectivity platform.  With us today to shed some light on the new company’s initial offerings and its plans for the future is CEO William Charnock, who has previously led networking over at both LimeLight and SoftLayer. [Read more →]

Over the weekend, Level 3 Communications took its security capabilities in the Far East to a new level.  They have opened a set of new scrubbing centers throughout the region capable of mitigating Distributed Denial of Service attacks.  [Read more →]

Straight Path Communications has settled with the FCC in its dispute over the usage of the spectrum it has been sitting on.  There’s good news and bad news in there for Straight Path. [Read more →]

Next week we get a new president, and along with that will come a new FCC and a new regulatory regime. But that’s next week, and this week the current  Democratic majority on the FCC is apparently making the most of its microphone while it still has the floor. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some of the other news from this week that’s worth a quick look: [Read more →]

Colt is planning something we haven’t seen too often from international operators.  They are investing an expansion of the company’s metro fiber footprint in the Far East. [Read more →]

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

2017 is only weeks old and the deals are starting already.

One which caught my eye is in Vietnam. There, we see mobile payments company Fortumo partnering with [Read more →]

It’s time for a quick roundup on news from vendors from the last few days that’s worth a look: [Read more →]