We have another new job listing on the Ramblings’ Jobs board this weekend, this time from a different angle than most listings we’ve had in the past. The research firm OTR Global is looking for a [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: Wave Broadband, Black Rock to Merge
September 22nd, 2012
It didn’t take long for the hypothetical cable/CLEC merger machine to make its first move following the FCC’s recent relaxation of the rules. On the west coast late this week, Wave Broadband and Black Rock Cable announced their plans to merge, bringing together a triple play footprint and a dense metro fiber business under one roof. [Read more →]
Data Bytes 9/21: Viawest, Ajubeo, CoreSite, Telx, Terremark
September 21st, 2012
A few datacenter and cloud quick takes before everyone goes off for the weekend: [Read more →]
Inteliquent Shakes Up Management, Are They For Sale?
September 21st, 2012
Late yesterday, Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) announced that its CFO, Robert Junkroski, and its President and COO, Surendra Saboo will be stepping down as of October 1. Both will remain on hand for a month to help with the transition, and the company plans to identify a new CFO but doesn’t currently intend to hire a successor to Dr. Saboo. [Read more →]
Looking Ahead for Zayo’s Next Move
September 20th, 2012
Today Zayo said it has finished interconnecting the AboveNet network with its own and achieved a variety of other milestones in the integration, which it has been working on for a little less than a quarter now. It’s a bigger job than any they have attempted before, but in a quarter or two they’ll surely be ready for more. [Read more →]
OTT partnerships crucial to LTE success: Google
September 20th, 2012
This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
The payoff for mobile broadband services in Asia-Pacific will rely not just on LTE, but a savvy and wide-ranging partnership between operators and OTT players. [Read more →]
DPSciences Hooks Up Via tw telecom
September 20th, 2012
When it comes to announcing customer wins, few major network operators have been as quiet this summer as TW Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC, news, filings) — over three months since the last one in fact. So yesterday’s release was welcome, detailing a multi-year contract with DP Sciences, a midwestern managed IT services outfit that specializes in the healthcare vertical. [Read more →]
Colo Bytes 9/19: Sidera, Digital Realty, Equinix, QTS, CoreSite
September 19th, 2012
Lots of colo news this week, here’s a roundup of interesting items from Sidera, Digital Realty, Equinix, and QTS. [Read more →]
John Legere Resurfaces, Takes Over T-Mobile USA
September 19th, 2012
A few weeks shy of the first anniversary of closing of Level 3’s purchase of Global Crossing, the latter’s former CEO has resurfaced in a somewhat unexpected direction. John Legere has been named Chief Executive Officer at T-Mobile USA, taking over for interim CEO Jim Alling. [Read more →]
IO Snags Goldman Sachs
September 19th, 2012
Phoenix-based IO won a major convert to its modular datacenter technology from the financial vertical this morning. None other than Goldman Sachs has signed on, with the two entering a long term strategic technology partnership. [Read more →]
Inteliquent Expands to Turkey, Eyes the Middle East
September 19th, 2012
This morning Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) announced the establishment of a foothold in Turkey. They have established a Turkish subsidiary and a strategic alliance with Turckcell Superonline. Soon to follow will be a PoP in the Turkcell Superonline data center in Istanbul and [Read more →]
NTT Acquires Centerstance, Adding More Cloud Migration Muscle
September 18th, 2012
The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications (NYSE:NTT, news, filings) has spent much of the last several years assembling cloud-based capabilities, via both organic and inorganic means. Today they made another of the inorganic moves with the agreement to acquire Centerstance, which helps them on the [Read more →]
Submarine Roundup: Apollo, Hibernia, AISC, SEACOM, TI-Sparkle
September 18th, 2012
Lots of interesting stories from the submarine cable sector in the last day or two. Here’s a quick summary of items from Apollo, Hibernia, AISC, SEACOM, and TI-Sparkle: [Read more →]
Telefonica Puts Infinera’s 100G on SAm-1
September 18th, 2012
Telefonica (NYSE:TEF, news, filings) International Wholesale Services has announced the upgrade of its South America-1 (SAm-1) cable system to 100G technology via Infinera’s new DTN-X platform. TIWS has been using Infinera gear in upgrading its submarine connectivity throughout the region, but this is the first case where they’ve gone for the new [Read more →]
Spread Networks Upgrades to 100G
September 17th, 2012
Well, you knew the financial sector wouldn’t wait long for the latest technology, and hence today’s announcement by Spread Networks of its deployment of 100G technology on its ultra-low latency route. [Read more →]
Data Bytes 9/17: Cobalt, NewTelco, Hurricane Electric, Online Tech
September 17th, 2012
Here’s a quick review of data center news kicking off the week, with XO at Cobalt, Ciena at NewTelco, more money for Hurricane Electric, and an unlikely source of funds for Online Tech: [Read more →]
CENX Gains Another Big Backer
September 17th, 2012
Carrier Ethernet Exchange specialist CENX (news) has found itself yet another big name backer. Today they revealed that the Swedish-based vendor Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC, news, filings) participated in their latest round of financing. Earlier this summer it was [Read more →]
Allstream For Sale, Who Might Buy It?
September 17th, 2012
While lately I have been looking at potential fiber M&A outside the US, it has been in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. But last week it became clear that there is a substantial fiber asset availble a bit closer to home, as the alternative Canadian operator MTS said it would be formally reviewing strategic options for its Allstream business. [Read more →]
Ramblings’ Jobs: tw telecom
September 16th, 2012
We have another new job listing on the Ramblings’ Jobs board this weekend, this time from the profitable, steadily growing national metro fiber operator tw telecom. TW is looking for a [Read more →]
Network Roundup 9/14: euNetworks, Level 3, Alpheus, UPN
September 14th, 2012
Before everyone heads out for the weekend, here’s a final roundup of news from fiber operators in the last few days: [Read more →]
Zayo’s Train Kept Rolling Through Its Fiscal Q4
September 14th, 2012
Zayo Group finished off its fiscal fourth quarter with its usual steady growth in revenue, EBITDA, and footprint expansion. Zayo has had a very busy M&A year already. During the quarter, Zayo closed the purchase of Arialink, and after the quarter ended they closed the purchases of AboveNet and FiberGate. They still have the USCarrier deal to finish later this year as well, and they started off the year buying MarquisNet. Here’s a quick table with the relevant data for the quarter ending June 30, 2012. [Read more →]
ACC Roundup: Wholesalers need to ‘go retail’
September 14th, 2012
This article was authored by Joseph Waring, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
The wholesale sector may be suffering, with prices plummeting and volume growth slowing, but you wouldn’t know it by the 1,200 executives who spent the better part of last week in Cebu, Philippines, ironing out bilateral deals with their many partners. [Read more →]
Akamai Buys FastSoft
September 13th, 2012
Cloud and CDN giant Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM, news, filings) made another technology M&A move today, announcing the acquisition of FastSoft. FastSoft provides content accelertion software that optimizes TCP, one of the protocols that underlies the internet, called FastTCP. [Read more →]