Telecom Ramblings

If Cisco’s move into the world of cloud computing back in March was a bit late entry, it won’t be lacking in resources. Six months later, the routing giant has doubled down on the ‘Intercloud’. Along with a $1B commitment, they announced 30 new high profile partners and launched a virtualization and orchestration platform aimed at service providers. [Read more →]

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

One apparent side effect of the growing ubiquity of LTE is that Wi-Fi is becoming less essential as an offload platform to cope with soaring data traffic. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by the MEF.  

The Internet is everywhere, and available on-demand – but it offers no service guarantees, and leaves security to the user. CE 2.0 delivers assured performance and security levels – but it can take weeks to establish a service. The world needs a THIRD Network. [Read more →]

This industry viewpoint was authored by Ajit Gupta, Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka

Reports that the FCC is considering new norms that would significantly affect net neutrality in the US have sparked a raging debate on how such regulations could ever even be put on the table at all. [Read more →]

TGIF.  Here’s a quick look at some more news from the metro this week: [Read more →]

Over in Europe, Colt finished up the first of several network expansion projects this week.  They’ve unveiled a second high capacity route between London and Dublin.   [Read more →]

The Metro Ethernet Forum has already been behind two of the industry’s cooperative efforts to redesign how internet infrastructure works in the past 13 years of work on Ethernet. But if you thought the next one would simply be called Carrier Ethernet 3.0, you were probably thinking too small. Yesterday the MEF launched its Third Network vision, which will take them deep into the Network-as-a-Service world. [Read more →]

Private equity has found another network operator to bring into the fold this week. Tiger Infrastructure Partners is acquiring a majority interest in Paramus, NJ-based Hudson Fiber Network. [Read more →]

Alcatel-Lucent and the SEA-ME-WE-5 consortium are at long last ready to move beyond talk and into action.  The Franco-American vendor has begun construction on its part of the cable system, which will supplant SEA-ME-WE-4’s as the latest cable on this increasingly important submarine route. [Read more →]

Following quickly on the heels of its move out in San Diego, tw telecom’s national metro markets expansion moved back to the East Coast.  With the Level 3 deal still pending, they have been pushing steadily ahead with the expansion they announced last November.  Today the market is the greater New York City metro area, which may be the biggest metro market in the country but has never been one of tw telecom’s bigger strongholds. [Read more →]

This has been a big year for 365 Data Centers. In April they rebranded from the former 365Main moniker and promised to take on the SMB market, and just last week they raised some new capital for expansion.  They’re not wasting any time, and have now used some of that capital to move into the cloud with their first cloud services offering: storage. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of recent data news: [Read more →]

Monday started off with some news from the big vendors: [Read more →]

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

Huawei and China Telecom have completed the first live network tests for NFV-based virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE). [Read more →]

Three new job listings landed on the Ramblings Jobs board this week from Logix Communications. [Read more →]

TGIF, here’s a quick look at some other news this week from the worlds of cloud and colo: [Read more →]

Vivendi has made its choice, and the auction for Global Village Telecom has gone to Telefonica. Both Telefonica and Telecom Italia had been bidding for the Brazilian telecommunications company back in August, seeking to combine the fixed line operator’s assets with their mobile businesses in the country. [Read more →]

There are two other organic metro fiber expansion projects out there this week worth a quick look: [Read more →]

There’s an article over at Investors Business Daily suggesting that Sprint may sell its wireline network business at last, and that Level 3 would be the most likely buyer. It’s not a new idea of course, but in this iteration is being suggested by Oppenheimer as a likely move. Is it finally time? [Read more →]

Yesterday the northeastern fiber operator Lightower announced plans to expand their network in the city of brotherly love and the fictional home of Rocky Balboa.  Yep, Philadelphia is getting some more new fiber, specifically downtown in the area surrounding Broad St., Market St., JFK Blvd. and Chestnut Ave. This makes two providers that are making moves in Philly, as tw telecom entered the market for the first time just last month.   [Read more →]

Rackspace may be distancing itself from consolidation in the cloud space, but Cisco managed to find a target to beef up its own efforts.  The router giant entered the space back in March with its Intercloud strategy, and today announced its intention to purchase Metacloud. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some interesting news items from this week: [Read more →]

One of the bits of summer speculation that seemed destined to happen isn’t going to, at least for now. Rackspace yesterday called off its review of strategic alternatives, named Taylor Rhodes as its CEO, and plotted an independent course. [Read more →]