Telecom Ramblings

The UK wireless operator O2 is moving its infrastructure from leased capacity to dedicated fiber, and they’re getting the fiber from Zayo. The two companies completed a 15 year deal for a managed core fiber network that will stretch from Glasgow down to Salisbury. O2 of course is Telefonica’s UK business, and has been for some 8 years. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of quick takes on news from the data center space over the last couple days: [Read more →]

The world of peering and interconnection saw a bit of M&A news today: IIX has acquired the UK-based Allegro Networks.  [Read more →]

Zayo’s first move after taking its story public with an IPO last week was close to home.  The Boulder, Colorado-based fiber builder and operator has announced a new fiber buildout in a town it knows quite well: Boulder, Colorado. [Read more →]

We’ve had a bunch of regional and metro news to look at this morning, here’s a quick rundown: [Read more →]

Merit Networks has finally finished off one of the bigger BTOP infrastructure projects, REACH-3MC.  Construction started almost four years ago after the first of two stimulus grants were awarded.   [Read more →]

Earnings season got rolling this week as Verizon posted its Q3 earnings this morning.  As usual for such a massive, carefully watched company, there wasn’t anything truly surprising in the numbers.  They came in a bit shy of estimates, but close enough to the mark so as to be ok and not panic anyone. [Read more →]

Today the world of passive optical networks may be getting a major jolt of potential bandwidth.  Alcatel-Lucent has launched the first Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Network solution, or TWDM-PON.  They see the technology as a successor to GPON, supporting 4 wavelengths and boosting total capacity to 40Gbps. [Read more →]

A quick roundup of data center news from this morning and late last week: [Read more →]

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

We know about web 2.0, the social internet, and some speak about web 3.0. In the finance sector we have talked about finance 2.0 that is a more online and lesser middlemen -model. Now we are learning about industry 4.0. Is it one more fancy number, catchy marketing or something bigger? [Read more →]

This week we got a new listing to look at on the Ramblings Jobs board to look at from LIT Networks. [Read more →]

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 →]