Telecom Ramblings

Three and a half months after announcing plans to acquire Fibertech Networks, Lightower followed through and closed the $1.9B deal.  The combined company has some 30K route miles of fiber and 15K on-net locations, 5K of which are towers. [Read more →]

After being spun off from Windstream in late April of this year, CS&L became the industry’s first publicly traded network REIT.  The markets haven’t been terribly kind since, but this morning we got our first look at the actual books as the company posted its results for the part of Q2 since becoming independent. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gary Gluzman, Executive Director of Product Development, MetTel, and is the second of two parts.

In Part 1 of the series, we discussed the emergence of Unified Communications (UC) and the overwhelming desire to always be one step closer to making conversations as close to in-person as possible, without actually being in-person.
This desire is what’s pushed [Read more →]

Since picking Infinera’s gear to power its network expansion last year, Windstream has been busy putting its plan into action. Today they gave an interesting update on the progress they’ve made and what’s on tap.  Meanwhile, Infinera got some good news from Europe. [Read more →]

I’m still on the road this morning, and will be tomorrow as well, so I’m still catching up a bit.  Here’s another roundup of some news from yesterday: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gary Gluzman, Executive Director of Product Development, MetTel and is the first of two parts.

In the days of the Pony Express, it was a feat to connect a letter with its recipient across the country in two weeks’ time, with the fastest travel of news traversing coasts to deliver the news of Lincoln’s election taking almost [Read more →]

I’m on the road today, so if anything interesting happens that I’m not talking about, that’s why. In the meantime, here’s some additional news from the start of the week that’s worth a look. [Read more →]

Today we will take a look at the development side of the colocation industry.  The appetite for colocation space has been insatiable over the last decade, with cloud and content now increasingly driving things.  With us to give his view is industry veteran J. Todd Raymond, Managing Director and co-founder of 1547 Critical Systems Realty, and one of the original co-founders of Telx.  [Read more →]

For Monday morning we have a little VoLTE, and a bunch of jobs-related items: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Major telecom and ICT companies including PT Telkom Indonesia, PT Indosat and XL Axiata have all registered to take part in a bid for a $246.7 million fiber project in Indonesia. [Read more →]

Another Friday in August.  Here’s a quick rundown of some other news from this week worth a look: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint article was contributed by NetEvents

Recent discussions around SDN and cloud security track the development of networking from software-defined to business-defined. [Read more →]

Along with its Q2 results, Lumos today announced a new market launch, brought a key data center campus on-net, and revealed a $150M cash infusion from the private equity world. Lumos has been putting more and more of its effort into expanding its fiber reach over the last few years, and is now seeing its future as a pure fiber play. [Read more →]

Yesterday there was a bit of consolidation over in the financial networking segment of the industry.  IPC Systems has announced the acquisition of smaller rival ASPone. [Read more →]

This week we saw two familiar names from the world of VoIP resurface for a bit of M&A action. Onvoy has announced an agreement to acquire Broadvox, boosting its national coverage to 80% of households nationally. [Read more →]

Time for a mid-week look at recent news from the metro and government side of things: [Read more →]

Earnings season continues, and this morning we got a Q2 report from euNetworks, which has long been our unencumbered window into the fiber infrastructure business over in western Europe.  euNetworks posted a quarter of solid organic growth powered by another quarter of strong sales. Here is a quick table of their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

Several interesting items from the vendors to look at in the first half of this week: [Read more →]

The interconnection space has been one of the most rapidly evolving pieces of the communications infrastructure marketplace over the last few years. Now it seems to have evolved further, stretching into the world of software-as-a-service. IIX today launched a new SaaS company, called Console Inc., aimed at bringing direct network interconnection to enterprises.  [Read more →]

EarthLink turned in its second stronger-than-expected quarter of the year yesterday, keeping its newfound momentum going. After a few lean years of churn, the company’s financials are a whole lot less painful to look at, and were enough to allow the company to boost 2015 guidance for the second quarter in a row. [Read more →]

The buildout of the second transatlantic cable system since the bubble is about to commence.  AquaComms said this morning that TE Subcom is now loading the rolls of fiber onto the cable-laying ship Reliance up in New Hampshire. [Read more →]

EdgeConneX said this morning that it has partnered up with another internet exchange. They’re working with MASS IX to build a new remote exchange node into their facility at 22 Linnell Circle in Billerica just northwest of Boston. [Read more →]

Every few years, the incumbents and unions face off for a nice game of chicken over wireline telecom. This summer, it is Verizon on one side and the CWA and IBEW on the other. The “deadline” passed at midnight last night, but workers are staying on the job so far. [Read more →]