Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Adam Alevy, Vice President of Technology for Laird PLC’s Infrastructure Antenna Systems group

With travelers, students, car buyers, homeowners and workers wanting – no, demanding – Wi-Fi in their hotels, campuses, automobiles, homes and businesses, is it far-fetched to believe sports fans will want the same in their sports venues in the very near future? [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at other some news from around the world from this week: [Read more →]

We have some network M&A from down under to look at this morning.  Superloop, which is in the midst of a fiber buildout in both Australia and Singapore, has found an M&A target to accelerate its expansion.  They have entered into a binding agreement to acquire Brisbane-based APEXN Pty Ltd. [Read more →]

Five data centers in Dallas apparently isn’t enough anymore, so Equinix is going for a sixth.  This morning they announced plans for a new IBX, which will go by the moniker DA7 and will help support growing demand for interconnection throughout the metro area.   [Read more →]

Here’s a quick mid-week roundup of other news from the internet infrastructure sector: [Read more →]

Yesterday over on Cisco’s blog, the vendor’s Talos security research group revealed how it took down a significant hacker network.   With the help of Level 3, they tracked down and shut off a significant ransomware revenue stream based on the Angler Exploit Kit. [Read more →]

The world of interconnection has been a dynamic place of late, with new exchanges springing up in markets around the country and the world.  Today it was Atlanta’s turn through some cooperation between the streaming giant Netflix and the infrastructure leader Zayo. [Read more →]

Time for a quick metro catchup: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Don Sambandaraksa, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Suppose for one minute that Thailand’s military government is indeed hell-bent on getting their single gateway internet and ignoring all the yes-men and politicians who deny its existence and seem to be scrambling to protect the Dear Leader from any criticism whatsoever. Undoubtedly the best description of the gateway is the interview by [Read more →]

This October Monday morning saw three interesting internet exchange items cross the wires.  After more than a decade’s worth of centralization, the whole IX sector has been spreading its geographical wings. [Read more →]

One of the ways in which regional fiber networks have been born in the US has been through the efforts of smaller independent telcos with common needs to reach outside their territories.  Such networks are important part of the infrastructure of most states, but tend to get very little attention relative to their more vocal relatives. One such network operator is Indiana Fiber Network, or IFN, which operates a statewide network in, yes, Indiana.  With us today to tell us about IFN and its plans is President and CEO Kelly Dyer. [Read more →]

Two new job listings were posted last week over on the Ramblings Jobs board. [Read more →]