Telecom Ramblings

It finally happened, Zayo took its fiber business public this morning on the NYSE. The stock debuted at $19 and has surged up to $22 thus far. It’s a long-awaited reversal of what has been the usual pattern over the past decade where publicly traded fiber tickers have steadily vanished from trading floors.  [Read more →]

Zayo’s IPO is today, and next week earnings season will kick off in earnest.  In the meantime, here’s a Friday roundup of other news we didn’t get to earlier this week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Edmundo Costa, CEO of Catbird

In our Big Data, mobile-optimized world, telecommunications companies with sprawling networks deal with huge data center challenges. Telco networks typically have a foundation of complex legacy architecture that interferes with their ability to quickly deploy services – in an era where speed rules the day. [Read more →]

Some more European fiber infrastructure is changing hands today.  euNetworks has announced the acquisition of Fiberlac, expanding its footprint to both lower latitudes and higher elevations.   [Read more →]

Three interesting international network deals worth a quick look: [Read more →]

Two of the industry’s bigger innovators are teaming up for the next chapter in content delivery technology. At this week’s SDN/OpenFlow World Congress, the CDN heavyweight Akamai and the routing giant Juniper are demonstrating what is described as an Elastic Content Delivery Network. [Read more →]

Global Cloud Xchange, which we knew as Reliance Globalcom until its rebranding earlier this year, is making good on the cloud part of its name. This morning they launched a new cloud service and ecosystem aimed at the global enterprise market. [Read more →]

Here are three other recent network news items worth checking out: [Read more →]

Two of the most dynamic insurgents in the bandwidth world have teamed up to start a new internet exchange down in southern Florida. The fiber builder and operator Zayo and the streaming giant Netflix, along with Host.net and CloudFlare, have launched FL-IX and are actively looking for more peers to sign on. [Read more →]

European fiber operator euNetworks says it has launched a new dc connect service in London. They’ve investing £8m in pre-deployed infrastructure in order to offer near-instant, scalable, fiber connectivity for enterprises. [Read more →]

Yesterday another chapter in the never-ending saga of who will buy T-Mobile came to a close. Iliad and its billionaire founder Xavier Niel has dropped its campaign to acquire a majority stake in the company. [Read more →]

Google has helped to forge another consortium submarine cable, but this time it’s heading into the southern hemisphere. The internet giant is teaming up with Brazil’s Algar Telecom, Uruguay’s Antel, and Angola’s Angola Cables to build a system between Brazil and the US. [Read more →]

The US is quiet so far today, but here’s a quick roundup of vendor news from around the world over the weekend: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Stefan Hammond, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

We expect seamless connectivity with our portable mobile devices. We rarely give it a thought…unless the cute little icon on our smartphones’ menu bar drops from 4G to 3G, then we furrow our collective brow until it switches back. [Read more →]

Columbus Day weekend and another job listing on the Ramblings Jobs board to look at from Walker & Associates. [Read more →]

As we enjoy the turning of the leaves, at least where I am, here is a quick rundown of other news from this week that I didn’t get to: [Read more →]

Earnings season hasn’t quite started, but Juniper Networks has apparently decided to get the bad news out of the way early.  The company announced updated revenue and earnings guidance that the markets aren’t terribly pleased with.  Whether this is company-specific or part of a broader trend will have to wait for more data. [Read more →]

In a their proxy filing a couple weeks ago with the SEC, tw telecom gave the usual detailed look at the sale process. And indeed, there were others who kicked the tires and made bids, as noted by Channel Partners the other day. But I have to say, relative to the frequency of rumors it was actually a pretty small number. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of news from the Asia-Pacific theater from this week, with four from China and one from Japan: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some interesting data center news from this week. [Read more →]

In the rapidly changing world of network operator SDN, broad support across the vendors whose gear powers complex hetereogeneous networks is a key goal. Today, Cyan’s Blue Planet revealed an important step in that direction by adding support for two of the most important of those vendors: Cisco and Juniper. [Read more →]

Following quickly on the heels of last week’s buildout plans over in Iowa, Yesterday Unite Private Networks announced another expansion on the other side of Missouri River. The midwestern fiber builder and operator plans to build out an additional 600 route miles of fiber in the southeastern part of Nebraska. [Read more →]

It’s been almost three years now since Lumos Networks split off from nTelos, taking its fiber business on an independent path.  In the time since, they have been expanding their reach both into new geographies and to new opportunities within their existing footprint.  With us to offer an update on the company’s expansion projects and overall outlook is CEO Tim Biltz, who was also featured here in the summer of 2013. [Read more →]