Telecom Ramblings

When Comcast gave up on its plans to purchase TW Cable in the face of regulatory opposition, I speculated about a few of its options for inorganic growth. One of them was to pivot to wireless and buy T-Mobile. But I wasn’t really serious — I was just covering all the exits, as it were. However, according to a German magazine today, Comcast actually is in the hunt and it might even have the inside track. [Read more →]

Allied Fiber formally reached the end of its first major buildout of conduit and fiber today with the launch of their Southeastern network.  The news comes just a tad over five years since the company first unveiled its plans for a new kind of national dark fiber infrastructure public. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of infrastructure news from around the USA early this week: [Read more →]

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

ITEM: Analyst firm Gartner is advising CIOs to beware of the Internet of Things – or at least “smart machines” that will leverage sensor-based data, advanced algorithms and AI to “make increasingly significant business decisions over which humans have decreasing control.” [Read more →]

Here’s a look at a bunch of interesting news from the vendors to start the week: [Read more →]

With us today to offer his perspective is euNetworks’ CEO Brady Rafuse, who previously stopped by a few years ago.  Since that time, euNetworks has expanded is pan-European fiber footprint organically and made three acquisitions as well.  The latest of those was FibreLac, extending their footprint up into the Swiss Alps. But the newest change at euNetworks has been the recent transaction by which the company has de-listed from the Singapore Stock Exchange. [Read more →]

The other news yesterday was an RFP from the City Council in Los Angeles, following up on some earlier intentions. Basically, they’re looking for a few good network operators to build them an FTTH network similar to what they’re seeing Google Fiber and municipal efforts like in Chattanooga are doing.   [Read more →]

According to this piece an Irish publication, Hibernia Networks now has a new majority investor. Luxembourg-based Murosa Development has taken a 51% share of the company, with longtime owner Columbia Ventures Corp (CVC) now holding 49%.  [Read more →]

For several years now, there have been rumblings of a cable directly connecting Latin America with Europe. Those plans appear to have received a significant boost yesterday, as the European Commission promised to chip in some €25m. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Chris Surdenik, CEO of Call One

A PBX system (Private Branch Exchange) is a private telephone system used within an organization. Today, hosted PBX systems allow more companies to take advantage of this communications system than ever before. [Read more →]

According to a Reuters report yesterday, we could see another big merger in the data center space. Digital Realty Trust is said to be taking a close look at Telx, and a $2B+ deal could be in the offing. [Read more →]

There has been lots of interconnection news this week, whether it be between networks, clouds, or data centers. Here’s a quick look: [Read more →]

Perhaps the most intriguing news yesterday in telecom came from outside telecom.  SpaceX and its visionary founder Elon Musk have filed with the FCC for permission to possibly compete with the likes of Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T.   How?  From space of course, where else? [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news from the metro arena from the first half of this week: [Read more →]

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

There is a significant opportunity for FTTx rollouts in emerging markets, but only if government regulators shape up their policies and stop protecting incumbents. [Read more →]

CENX won a high profile international customer for its Cortx offering this morning.  The Swedish giant Ericsson is integrating CENX’s Cortx Service Orchestrator software into the company’s managed services delivery platform in order to provide end-to-end visibility and monitoring. [Read more →]

It’s time for a quick roundup of some US infrastructure news: [Read more →]

Verne Global will soon have some new IP connectivity at its data center campus at Keflavik in Iceland. Level 3 is set to build out a PoP in the facility, bringing its international backbone to the volcanic island nation.  [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of early news this week or late last week: [Read more →]

Late last week we had a bit of fiber consolidation in the far northeast between two companies that historically haven’t gotten much attention.  Oxford Networks and BayRing Communications have agreed to a deal in which the two companies will merge their assets into a network stretching up the east coast from Boston deep into Maine.   [Read more →]

This industry viewpoint and David Letterman tribute was authored by Fady Masoud, Senior Advisor, Product and Technology Marketing at Ciena.

Let’s face it – the importance of the data center in our everyday life has never been greater. As a culture, we expect on-demand, high quality and real-time access to content via a multitude of applications and devices. Since all that content lives in the data center, [Read more →]

Friday is here, and so is a quick roundup of other news from around the US this week that is worth checking before you go: [Read more →]

Powered by strong converged packet-optical sales, Ciena posted a strong fiscal Q2 report this morning, surpassing both estimates and guidance on virtually all fronts.  Here are a few of their numbers in some context: [Read more →]