Telecom Ramblings

A week or two ago, Ramblings had a birthday and I forgot to throw a party. Yep, this website turned six years old this May, and I needed folks liking the automated LinkedIn ‘work anniversary’ notice to remind me of the date.  Here’s a big THANK YOU to everyone who has helped this site survive and thrive, whether as a sponsor, as a reader and commenter, retweeter, etc.   [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Stefan Bernbo, CEO and founder of Compuverde.

A 2012 Cisco report estimated that global data center traffic would rise from 1.8 zettabytes (ZB) in 2011 to 6.6ZB in 2016. One explanation for the explosive growth in data is the “Internet of Things.” The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the era where wireless, network-connected devices become ever more [Read more →]

Europe’s OTT market is about to get shaken up, and other stories from around the world this week. [Read more →]

Catching up with news this Wednesday in the data center space: [Read more →]

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

Quantcast published its latest report on discovering content on mobile. According to the report apps dominate mobile content use. People use over 80% of their mobile time in apps. And apps drive also a lot of mobile browsing traffic, 24% of browsing traffic comes from apps. But only about 1,000 apps have [Read more →]

Furthering its expansion in the Mid-Atlantic region, Lightower today announced significant metro fiber buildout plans for in Maryland. They are adding some 270 route miles in and through downtown Baltimore, the surrounding metro area, and in the corridor down to Washington DC. [Read more →]

It’s time for a roundup of network news from the past few days that is worth a quick look: [Read more →]

According to Dan Rayburn, there’s another CDN in the game and it’s Comcast. We’re not talking about fast lanes in the last mile here, though there is sure to be some confusion. [Read more →]

Last week the hosting and cloud provider Rackspace revealed that it has been approached by multiple potential partners or acquirers and has hired Morgan Stanley to help it figure out its alternatives. The company’s star has fallen a bit in recent years, with bigger public cloud rivals like Amazon gaining scale advantages and squeezing margins.  [Read more →]

That AT&T was preparing to make a move on DirecTV was well known, but I actually thought they might not pull the trigger. I thought wrong, as over the weekend the two went public with the latest telecommunications and media mega merger. [Read more →]

This week’s new listing on the Ramblings Jobs Board comes from Lightower Fiber Networks in the northeast, joining three other listings still active. [Read more →]

In its second European acquisition in the past month, Zayo has bought itself some more fiber.  This time it’s an asset that has been for sale for a while, and which they always seemed to be the right buyer for: Geo Networks. [Read more →]

May’s network neutrality debate has been something of a circus already.  But there’s one thing that puzzles me.  As a former lobbyist and longtime player in all this, Tom Wheeler had to know that any sort of wavering on fast lanes would send folks into hysterics.  Yet somehow here we are.  Is there a deeper game going on here?  [Read more →]

The more I think of yesterday’s comments by the FCC’s Tom Wheeler about paid prioritization and fast lanes, the more I see the fingerprints of Apple. Remember the rumored Apple/Comcast discussions a couple months back about a separate pipe to the consumer? [Read more →]

So the FCC went ahead and voted to consider its chairman Tom Wheeler’s new net neutrality framework. But about the only thing anyone can agree on about it is that we’re going to be arguing about it for the foreseeable future.   [Read more →]

Today’s roundup looks at this week’s other developments in the datacenter space: [Read more →]

The global network operator GTT is accessing the capital markets, according to an announcement today.  They are looking to sell just over 4.45M shares, of which the 0.45M will be by several large shareholders.  Not including any over-allotments, the company expect to raise in the neighborhood of $37.5M in cash. [Read more →]

Hibernia Networks is upgrading its transatlantic cable system, and it’s switching to a new vendor to get the job done. They’ve tapped Ciena’s GeoMesh solution, including the coherent optics, ROADM, and packet-optical platform. [Read more →]

Yesterday we went through a few of the international announcements out there, today here is a look at a few of the US metro connectivity variety that are worth a look: [Read more →]

A little less than two months ago, Sunesys announced an aggressive expansion into lit services, both of the metro sort within their existing markets and on intercity routes between them.  Yesterday they revealed where some of that intercity bandwidth will originate, and it will come from a somewhat surprising source: Spread Networks. [Read more →]

The rumors have been building for weeks, so the latest one that has AT&T on the brink of a deal to purchase DirecTV for about $50B isn’t exactly unexpected. But I haven’t been able to get terribly excited about it so far. [Read more →]

With ITW underway in Chicago, there is lots of news out there from the international telecommunications industry.  Here is a quick look at some of the interesting expansions, upgrades, and trials going on: [Read more →]

As the various European-style peering efforts really start to get rolling in the US, the key will obviously be getting a critical mass of networks hooked up. DE-CIX’s New York internet exchange now has its first active interconnection customer, and it’s a biggie. They turned up service for Akamai yesterday at 111 8th Ave. [Read more →]