Telecom Ramblings

Seeking to enable big bandwidth at the edges of the network, Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN, news, filings) added two new boxes to their Ethernet portfolio this morning.  Ciena has been having a big year on the growth front, and further traction for its Ethernet portfolio could help them keep up the momentum. [Read more →]

Zayo added another aspect to its bandwidth business with the launch of a professional services product suite. Their new zTech offerings will take all that network build and operations expertise and give it another outlet. [Read more →]

The response to Google’s Kansas City gambit is gaining steam, as both AT&T and CenturyLink are making strides toward actual 1Gbps FTTH offerings, each in a single market of course. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news from around the world: [Read more →]

In some news that I didn’t initially see and which doesn’t seem to have gotten much press, several investors from the Warren Buffett circle have bought a fiber network operator and builder. Not in the USA, but over in Ireland.  [Read more →]

Pacnet is stretching its network reach into the US enterprise market with a little help from tw telecom. It’s the first E-Access foray in tho the USA for Pacnet, which has been recreating itself since bringing in former XO chief Carl Grivner as its CEO.  [Read more →]

With key parts of the Middle East continue to roil with civil strife, many terrestrial fiber alternatives to connect the region to Europe have been on the back burner. Nevertheless, four telecommunications companies from the Persian Gulf are planning another substantial attempt. [Read more →]

Not much news out there yet to kick off the week, but fortunately last week there were a bunch of metro fiber items I didn’t get to: [Read more →]

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

The rise of SDN is posing an “existential threat” to networking market leader Cisco, which is bound to put pressure on the vendor’s market share and revenue margins, CM Research warns. [Read more →]

Over on the Ramblings Jobs Board we have a new job listing from Logix down in Texas. [Read more →]

To finish off the week, here’s a quick look at some news that’s come in from overseas: [Read more →]

In a southeast Asian M&A that was rumored to be in the cards as far back as May, Malaysian-based XL Axiata has announced an agreement to buy Axis Telecom. Axiata’s Indonesia subsidiary will be buying a 95% stake in the Indonesian service provider from Saudi Telecom Company and Teleglobal Investments. [Read more →]

Today, assuming nothing goes awry, we will get a new public cloud communications company to keep track of. RingCentral’s initial public offering is all set, and yesterday they announced the initial pricing to be $13.00 per share. [Read more →]

Two bits of news for Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) this week: a high profile contract in the sports vertical and yet another big refinancing. [Read more →]

There’s been a series of interesting items from vendors this week, here’s a set of quick-takes to play some catch-up: [Read more →]

Or is that Hungary? Nope that pun won’t work yet, hungry will have to do. So now that Verizon and Vodafone finally made the least secret deal of the decade happen, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has now publicly alluded to M&A opportunities in Europe. So who might they buy? [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some other news from the metro and regional fiber sector: [Read more →]

If the imminent invasion of European-style internet exchanges has Telx worried, they aren’t showing it. Today the interconnection specialist unveiled the addition of another 69,000 gross square feet at 60 Hudson, one of the internet’s biggest hubs. [Read more →]

The metro and regional fiber business has a new name to remember, as Tech Valley Communications has rebranded itself as FirstLight Fiber.  Meanwhile, they also gained certification with a major wireless operator for their Ethernet backhaul solutions. [Read more →]

Yesterday Rogers Business Solutions waded deeper into the cloud infrastructure market with some M&A. Rogers is purchasing two data center assets: Pivot Data Centers and Granite Networks. They’ll be folding both into their Blackiron Data division, built off the purchase of the Blackiron business from Primus earlier this year. [Read more →]

While the Pacific Fibre effort may have collapsed, the dream of more and bigger pipes hooking up New Zealand with the US west coast clearly hasn’t. According to Capacity Magazine, TE Subcom has now signed on to help build the Hawaiki Cable system, an effort that hopes to succeed by offering solutions to more than one problem.   [Read more →]

While they seem to have picked a rather inauspicious year to move to the now very wet city of Boulder, Zayo has finally turned in another quarter of steady growth.  EBITDA margins were down sequentially, but this was due to a one time hit from lease termination charges that derive from all the integration work.  Here’s a quick summary of Zayo’s numbers for their Fiscal Q4: [Read more →]

According to various reports, one of the bigger European competitive fiber assets known to be for sale no longer is. GTS Central Europe has taken itself off the table, and its private equity backers are now looking at making some balance sheet moves instead. But that’s clearly just an interim step. [Read more →]