Something interesting has happened in the gaming world over the past week, and I’m starting to think the repercussions could spread pretty quickly. An old game has been presented in a new way, melding silly cute imaginary creatures with Google Maps, GPS, and lots of mobile bandwidth. I’m speaking of course about Pokemon Go, which is sweeping far more quickly through the airwaves than people think. [Read more →]
Zayo is expanding on the international front, but this time via organic means. They have been selected by an unnamed global cloud communications provider to hook up nine data centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. As Zayo isn’t in Asia yet, that’s where the expansion comes in. [Read more →]
Host.net is a regional operator offering network, colo, and cloud services operating out of southern Florida. With its origins back in the dot com bubble, Host.net has followed a colorful, opportunistic path through the worlds of ISPs, metro Ethernet, Colo, and most recently cloud services. With us today to talk about the company’s past and future trajectory is Chief Evangelist Lenny Chesal. [Read more →]
There was a significant fiber M&A development in the far northeast today. Oak Hill Capital Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Oxford Networks, following up on its previously announced deal to acquire FirstLight Fiber. [Read more →]
Here’s a quick roundup of some interesting network news from around the world this week. [Read more →]
Late yesterday, the cable operator Cox Communications made a significant move deeper into the world of metro and regional fiber. They have made a strategic investment in Unite Private Networks, becoming a major shareholder alongside Ridgemont Equity Partners and the company’s management team. [Read more →]
The cable giant Comcast and the OTT challenger Netflix didn’t see eye to eye very often in the first half of this decade. But today the news is of a very different sort. As Comcast rolls out its new X1 set-top box, Netflix’s video content will be among the choices the cable operator offers to consumers. [Read more →]
Here’s a quick roundup of some interesting news from the metro this week. [Read more →]
The folks at Lightower were apparently pretty busy over the holiday weekend. This morning they revealed some infrastructure M&A that follows up on their purchase of Fibertech last year. Lightower has acquired Datacenter101. [Read more →]
The US has been off all weekend celebrating Independence Day. But back in the UK, which was on the receiving end of that particular event so long ago, there was some fiber build-out news. CityFibre has won an expansion project in its existing market of Peterborough as well as a new project in Milton Keynes. [Read more →]
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Q Advisors’ Gerry DeHaven, Jordan Rupar and Jack Quinn
Today’s market mentality: If you can’t beat them, join them.
The business cloud communication market is becoming increasingly integrated and application-centric. To keep pace, traditional cloud communications providers such as Vonage as well as US and global carriers such as AT&T and British Telecom (“BT”) are rapidly [Read more →]
We have two new job listings on the Ramblings Jobs Board this fourth of July weekend. [Read more →]
In the US, folks are heading into the long July 4th weekend and are looking forward to barbecues, parades, and fireworks. Before you leave though, here’s some news from around the world. [Read more →]
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Charanya, Product Marketing Manager at Veryx Technologies
Next-generation Ethernet/IP services that depend on Software Defined Network (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud technologies, utilize virtual network functions (VNFs) that are chained together to realize a network service (NS). While these NFV-based services derive the benefit of high agility and low costs, assuring [Read more →]
Here’s a quick look at some news from the metro from this week: [Read more →]
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Alan Zeichick, Camden Associates
Open standards and open source projects are both essential ingredients for advancing the cause of interoperable next-generation carrier networks. [Read more →]
Here’s a quick look at some news from around the world that’s worth a look today: [Read more →]
A substantial chunk of fiber is changing hands down under. Vocus Communications has announced plans to acquire Netgen Networks in a deal worth about $600M. [Read more →]
The trans-Pacific bandwidth market officially has a new cable system with which to meet demand. NEC said today that construction and testing of the FASTER Cable System has been completed, meeting its promised Q2 date with one extra day in hand. [Read more →]
There was some interesting M&A over in Africa today. The pan-African network operator Liquid Telecom has teamed up with the investment group Royal Bafokeng to acquire Neotel from India’s Tata Communications. The deal comes after a purchase of Neotel by Vodacom failed to get past regulatory hurdles. [Read more →]
Zayo’s plans for its Canadian Allstream assets became a bit clearer this morning. The infrastructure provider has teamed up with the cloud voice specialist Mitel. The two are partnering on a hosted and fully-managed real-time communications, collaboration, and conferencing solution that puts Mitel’s MiCloud solution over Zayo’s network infrastructure. [Read more →]
Cisco’s appetite for cloud technology and talent has not abated. Today they announced another acquisition, one that will boost the company’s security portfolio. The bellweather technology giant has announced its intent to buy CloudLock, Inc. [Read more →]
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