Telecom Ramblings

Huawei Marine said this morning that it has been selected to do the construction for another transatlantic cable.  Unlike Hibernia Express and AE Connect, this one is much further south.  If complete, the Cameroon-Brazil Cable System will connect South America and Africa. [Read more →]

Three bits of news from the data center space, and one fiber buildout project: [Read more →]

Yesterday, Level 3 put another new product out there for the enterprise marketplace.  But this one leverages other people’s networks, specifically LTE wireless networks. [Read more →]

The datacenter and interconnection provider Cologix has announced its tenth acquisition, moving into the New York metro area for the first time.  They will be acquiring Net Access, which operates 200K square feet across three facilities in northern New Jersey.   [Read more →]

The dark fiber startup USA FIBER announced plans for a new fiber route this morning that will bypass Washington DC between Ashburn and various locations in Maryland.  The route will cross the Potomac via a unique route, presumably to the north and west of the nation’s capitol, but they aren’t yet saying exactly where. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some network news on three continents to start off Tuesday: [Read more →]

Rumors that Windstream was looking to sell off its data center and cloud arm proved to be correct this morning.  The hybrid ILEC/CLEC has entered into an agreement to sell its Hosted Solutions division to TierPoint for $575M in cash. [Read more →]

Two interesting metro wins by vendors, a big pipe for rural Illinois, and some action over in Italy: [Read more →]

Back in March, CenturyLink adopted Cyan’s BluePlanet platform and embarked on a rollout of SDN and NFV within its network. Soon thereafter, and probably not coincidentally, Ciena bought Cyan and merged it into its own virtualization efforts. CenturyLink today reiterated and expanded its network overhaul plans. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Stefan Hammond, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Big data is often associated with big retailers. Build a customer database, then push out info (and special deals) that appeals to specific, pre-determined tastes. [Read more →]

We have a new listing over on the Ramblings Jobs board this weekend. [Read more →]

Time for a quick roundup of some news from around the sector to round out the week: [Read more →]

Nebraska’s Great Plains Communications is adding yet more fiber to its network.  Today they announced an expansion southward to Kansas City into the Netrality carrier hotel at 1102 Grand.   [Read more →]

A bit of vendor M&A is taking place over in Europe.  The Swedish-based giant Ericsson said this morning that it intends to acquire the Polish and Ukrainian operations of Ericpol, bringing further software development talent in house.   [Read more →]

Over the past few days, supporters and detractors of the summer’s big cable deal have been filing their thoughts with the FCC, and the second category has been rather more vocal. Charter announced plans to purchase TWC in May, a few months after Comcast’s effort to do the same was squelched by regulatory opposition. [Read more →]

Not a lot of big news today as the markets continue to digest the Dell/EMC deal. In the meantime, here’s a quick look at some other network and data items worth checking out: [Read more →]

Here are a few quick news items from the vendor side of the tracks: [Read more →]

It was just two months ago that Ciena closed its purchase of Cyan, and today we are seeing a piece of just what they had in mind. They have unveiled a suite of enhancements to the Blue Planet network orchestration platform, which has become a centerpiece of the company’s SDN and NFV push. [Read more →]

For those who get Columbus Day off, and those who just need to catch up, here’s a recap of some news from the start of the week: [Read more →]

Today we are going to delve deeper into the nuts and bolts of the networking industry.  With us today is Pervis Conway, who is founder, CEO, and President of Construction-CAD Solutions (CCS).  CCS is an engineering and construction firm based in Chicago that cut its teeth on the HFC buildouts of the dot-com era.  Today the minority-owned firm is busy doing the engineering work necessary for operators to build out fiber backhaul networks to the wireless towers and small cells that power today’s growing mobile data tsunami. [Read more →]

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

Do you want to print out the layout and interconnections of IT systems at a carrier, bank or logistics company? Of course, you can probably do it, but you would need a lot of paper, ink and a big wall to showcase it. [Read more →]

Two international deployments, and two persistent M&A rumors for this Friday morning: [Read more →]

This week Amazon Web Services announced a new data service capable of sending 50TB into the cloud.  Great, more bandwidth demand, right?  Nope, they’re shipping it in a box. [Read more →]