Telecom Ramblings

Telefonica today revealed plans for a new submarine cable system linking North and South America.  The new cable, called BRUSA, will connect the Brazilian cities of Fortaleza and Rio de Janerio with the Puerto Rican port of San Juan and the Mid-Atlantic city of Virginia Beach. [Read more →]

Equinix is looking to a new source of inspiration to further build out the ecosystem within its vast inventory of data centers.  They have tapped the insights and developments of the tech giant Facebook and the Open Compute Project. [Read more →]

While the news over at Cisco has been about cloud-related technology acquisitions, yesterday they were part of an interesting APAC announcement down under. Telstra is using Cisco’s software platform to bring SDN and NFV powered products to market. [Read more →]

Hutchison Global Communications is upgrading its metro capabilities in its home market of Hong Kong with some help from Infinera. HGC is deploying Infinera’s TM-Series Mobile Fronthaul solution as it prepares for the advent of 5G and all the extra bandwidth that will be required to hook up towers and small cells to make it happen. [Read more →]

Several colo-related items from this week’s news that are worth a quick look: [Read more →]

Here are three interesting metro and regional fiber items worth a look today: [Read more →]

Here are a few interesting news bytes from the vendors from the early part of this week: [Read more →]

Level 3 unveiled some new capabilities this morning over in Europe. The global network operator has expanded its Carrier Ethernet 2.0 footprint onto its pan-European network. [Read more →]

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

The World Economic Forum brings the top business and political leaders to Davos late January. Mobile World Congress brings mobile, internet professionals and executives to Barcelona in late February. Normally [Read more →]

Here’s a quick Friday recap of some news items from around the world from this week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Clint Heiden, Chief Commercial Officer of EdgeConneX

2016…a new year full of limitless potential; but as we look onward in preparation for what’s to come, it’s also critical to take a look at where we’ve come from and gain some perspective. Though the Internet of Things (IoT) is among the most widely-used terms in the industry today, if we apply the principle to an earlier Internet period, we see a much different picture. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of quick takes on a few items of interest in the metro and regional fiber world: [Read more →]

While no longer publicly traded, euNetworks is still keeping the markets up to date on its quarterly financial progress and thus remains an interesting pure-play fiber infrastructure window into into Europe.  This morning they posted their Q4/2015 numbers, finishing out the year on a decidedly positive note.  Here is a quick tabular summary: [Read more →]

A little less than five years after first expanding beyond the west coast and into Texas with the Telwest purchase, TelePacific has made an even bigger inorganic move.  Today they announced an agreement to acquire DSCI, a managed services and cloud communications provider based in Waltham, Massachusetts. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at a few items from the first half of the week – a couple buildouts, a new service, a federal contract extension, and a new hire: [Read more →]

Here are a few interesting items from around the world that are worth a note: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

Recently we had two pieces of eye-opening news on fiber optic network. One is Google Fiber made an agreement with the City of Huntsville, Alabama to bring high speed broadband Internet to the community. The nuance for this case is that Google will use the fiber network the [Read more →]

For today’s Q&A, we turn to the colocation business in one of the most competitive markets in the world.  Newark’s 165 Halsey Street is one of the premier carrier hotels in New Jersey and an indispensible node on everyone’s New York metro network. With us today to tell us about 165 Halsey Street’s past, present, and future is Joe Simone, President of Tishman Real Estate Services, the company tasked with taking the building’s space to market since its original development as a carrier hotel almost two decades ago now. [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

While the hot topics at this year’s MWC2016 have generally revolved around 5G, the IoT, digital transformation, virtual reality and whatever Mark Zuckerberg says, a recurring topic has been the debate in the US regarding Apple’s refusal to build a tool for the FBI to break the encryption of the [Read more →]

We haven’t had a Friday poll since the start of the year, an oversight that is easily corrected.  Let’s step back from specifics and see what the general impression we all have as participants in this industry about the proposed purchase of XO Communications by Verizon might be: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some of the earnings news from this week among network operators: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Max Silber, Vice President of Mobility at MetTel

As we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act last week, the main discussions centered on what it got right and what it got wrong. There’s no denying the impact the act had on the telecommunications industry as a whole, from centralizing the landscape to enabling the [Read more →]

Four network updates from around the world that are worth a quick look: [Read more →]