Telecom Ramblings

AT&T and Digital Realty Trust said today that they are expanding their alliance. AT&T will soon be able to incorporate Digital Realty’s global colo capacity into its solutions directly, greatly extending the geographical reach of its NetBond cloud connectivity ecosystem. [Read more →]

One of the interesting stories to unfold this year has been the return of intercity fiber construction. Much of the new public buildout plans have been by Zayo and today they followed that up with some additional financial justification. [Read more →]

This morning in a U.S. Federal court in Virginia, Cogent Communications has filed suit against Deutsche Telekom A.G. for breach of contract.  Cogent says that DT has ‘interfered with the free flow of internet traffic’ by ‘refusing to increase the capacity of the interconnection ports that allow the exchange of traffic’.  [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of four items from three other continents that has come out in the last 24 hours or so: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Chris Purdy, CTO of CENX.

What do a Grammy award-winning musician’s newest music video and a home security system have in common? When one explodes in popularity, the other might suffer outages, delays and technical faults. [Read more →]

The infrastructure sector saw some interesting activity over the weekend over in South Asia.  Reliance Communications may finally have found a buyer for its tower assets, and perhaps for some of its fiber as well. [Read more →]

Monday news between Thanksgiving and Christmas can be a bit scarce, but it’s out there if you look: [Read more →]

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

ITEM: Two of Asia-Pacific’s rising stars in the OTT video scene took the stage at Capacity Asia 2015 in Bangkok Tuesday – partly to showcase their exclusive content libraries, and partly to assure telcos that they are partners, not competitors. [Read more →]

We have four new job listings to look at over on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board this Decembers weekend. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some cloud news from this week before you all go home for the weekend: [Read more →]

We haven’t had a Friday poll for a long time.  But as network neutrality goes back to court, let’s ask the question.  Will it survive in its current form?  Not ‘should it’ (as that is a different question), but ‘will it’? [Read more →]

Today the FCC’s latest regulatory effort to impose network neutrality on the internet will face a challenge it’s faced many times but not in a successful way. Yep, it’s time to go back into to court and try, try again. [Read more →]

A quick roundup of a few recent news items: [Read more →]

Zayo revealed its latest wireless backhaul buildout project yesterday.  They’ll be expanding their network in and around the southeastern metropolis of Atlanta after winning a 20 year contract from an unnamed major wireless operator. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some interesting news from the week so far: [Read more →]

Aqua Comms reached another milestone in the construction of AEConnect yesterday. They have completed the final splice on the marine segment of the submarine cable system as the project moves into the home stretch.  [Read more →]

As we in the US head for the gym to work off the Thanksgiving feast, here is a quick look at news from overseas where turkey isn’t a thing: [Read more →]

Yesterday saw a small item of data center M&A over on the other side of the Atlantic.  VIRTUS Data Centres has announced the purchase of the company that owns and operates the Slough Data Centre of Infinity SDC Limited.   [Read more →]

According to a release this morning, Birch Communications is doubling down on its metro fiber-based expansion. The privately held network operator says it has added another 80,000 buildings to its fiber reach across 22 states, a boost of 25% over the reach they had achieved just 2 months ago. [Read more →]

The UK-based alternative metro fiber builder and operator CityFibre has found more fertile ground in Scotland.  Over the Thanksgiving break, they announced plans to make Glasgow another of its Gigabit City projects. [Read more →]

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

Once upon a time many companies were able to manage their whole infrastructure and implement all services alone for a customers. Telecom operators offered the telephone services – including value added services – and tried to make the ecosystem more dynamic with their own intelligent networks. And they wanted to [Read more →]

We have a new job listing to look at over on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board this holiday weekend. [Read more →]

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the MEF‘s GEN15 conference in Dallas, Texas as a media sponsor. Software-defined Networking, Network Functions Virtualization, and Lifecycle Service Orchestration were the big buzzphrases just as they were last year. But there was a distinct difference in the air. [Read more →]