Telecom Ramblings

On EarthLink’s Q4 earnings call this morning, the company talked pretty frankly about its intentions to sell off network assets to focus more tightly on the managed services side. They are looking at selling off the dark fiber, but not the more general CLEC/network business itself for now. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of news from around the industry today: [Read more →]

Lots of news from vendors lately, here’s a quick survey:  [Read more →]

Level 3 this morning announced an interesting high profile deal over in Europe, where the company has been looking to rejuvenate its growth of late.  The German automaker BMW has picked them to deliver both fiber and CDN services. [Read more →]

With FibreLac firmly in tow and private equity moving to take full control of the company, euNetworks finished out 2014 with a solid quarter of revenue growth and new sales.  Here is a quick table of of their results in some context.: [Read more →]

Just shy of four years after Google Fiber picked Kansas City for its first foray into the FTTH world, and two and a half years since they followed through and started hooking up fiberhoods, the incumbent is responding in force. AT&T yesterday launched its GigaPower offering in parts of Kansas City and its suburbs. [Read more →]

Liquid Telecom has landed some significant new funding for its expansion plans. The Pan-African fiber operator has raised another $150M from the global investment banking community. [Read more →]

In December, Ciena created a new business division, Ciena Agility, specifically targeted at the growing opportunities of Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization.  With the introduction of itsAgility Matrix software and VNF marketplace, Ciena is looking to help network operators unlock new business models serving the enterprise and enable a broader ecosystem of virtual network function vendors.  With us today to talk about Ciena’s efforts in NFV and SDN in general is Chris Janz, VP and CTO of Ciena Agility. [Read more →]

Here’s a last look at some other news from this week before some of you head into the long weekend: [Read more →]

Later this month, the FCC will vote on applying Title II (or at least parts of it) to the internet’s last mile, and all indications are that it will pass.  While the new regulatory regime will surely be challenged in court, this time the legs holding it up look quite a bit less frail.  What do readers think, and how strongly do you think it?  Pick two thoughts you most identify with, or add your own: [Read more →]

Contributed by Charlie Reed, Partner ATLANTIC-ACM

Technology is redefining the core products and operations in almost every industry. The role of the CIO (or CTO or CDO, etc.) is becoming central to marketing, operations, product development, customer support, security, financial analysis, business planning and more. As CIOs work to tie these vital roles together through efficient, secure, high capacity networks the following trends emerge in the business wireline telecom market: [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications significantly expanded its efforts in the managed security arena this morning. They’ve introduced a new DDoS mitigation service that takes advantage of both the company’s vast network scale and distributed CDN infrastructure. [Read more →]

A quick look at news from the vendors that is worth a look: [Read more →]

Zayo posted its second quarter results this morning, the first quarter they operated in as a public company.  Revenues were held back some by foreign exchange fluctuations but were nevertheless inline with expectations, while EBITDA margins continued their upward trajectory.  Here are a few of the company’s numbers in some context: [Read more →]

Akamai easily bested analyst expectations yesterday after the market closed, posting Q4 numbers that reflected a strong holiday season and a growing appetite for the company’s security services. [Read more →]

There has been a big consolidation development in the European internet infrastructure markets today.  TelecityGroup and Interxion, two of the continent’s largest and most active colocation providers, have announced plans to merge. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick survey of some news from the metro: [Read more →]

One of the more interesting developments of the past few years has been the proliferation and growth of independent internet exchange points around the country. This month another such location is being born in Richmond, Virginia, not too far south from the huge data center mecca of northern Virginia. [Read more →]

One of Houston’s key telecom carrier hotels is changing hands according to an announcement today.  Netrality Properties is acquiring 1301 Fannin Street, a 25-story,  1.1M square foot facility that currently houses 400K square feet of data center space and a dozen networks.   [Read more →]

A fiber operator we don’t hear from too often unveiled an expansion project over the weekend out in the Midwest. Indiana Fiber Network is planning to expand its overall capital investments in the state of Indiana to over than $100M from its current $75M with a multi-year, statewide upgrade. [Read more →]

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

Several publications have reported that Google is planning to sell mobile phone plans to consumers. Google is expected to make a deal in the US with Sprint and T-Mobile to sell their capacity. I wrote earlier about Apple’s own SIM card plan. Traditionally MVNO’s have been doomed to fail. Can Apple and Google really challenge carriers? [Read more →]

For this Friday roundup we have two items from the internet exchanges, one from the cloud, and one from the channel: [Read more →]

The rumors of Verizon asset sales turned quickly into reality yesterday after the markets closed. Frontier is spending $10.54B to acquire Verizon’s California, Texas, and Florida holdings, while American Tower is buying Verizon’s tower portfolio for $5.06B and of course leasing it back to them. [Read more →]