Telecom Ramblings

Seems like everyone is putting in their 100G two cents in the second half of 2012, preparing for when the technology really comes into its own next year. This morning, one of the earliest deployers of 100G updated the status of its current adoption: vz. [Read more →]

2012 is winding down, but network M&A isn’t on vacation yet — at least in Texas.  This morning Alpheus Communications made its first inorganic expansion move in recent history, announcing the acquisition of Net Star Telecommunications.   [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

We hear more and more about the idea of multi-screen culture, in which users will expect more and more of their content to be available seamlessly on their smartphones, tablets, laptops and TV sets. That creates a dilemma for mobile advertisers who are struggling just to [Read more →]

In this week’s chapter of how the wireless world turns, will Sprint finally get it over with at Clearwire, and why does Dish look so depressed now that it has official permission to enter the wireless biz at last? Ah well, it may be getting old but it’s still drama. [Read more →]

zayo isn’t wasting time putting its newly national footprint to work.  Less than six months after closing the AboveNet deal closed and a year since picking up 360Networks’ western fiber infrastructure, they’re putting 100G gear on the combined assets. [Read more →]

Few things have perplexed me as much as the goings on in Dubai this past week. The ITU summit has purported to be ready to update the treaty that underlies telecommunications regulations worldwide, but reality has clearly intruded in the form of gridlock. [Read more →]

Time for a quick roundup of items in the datacenter marketplace: [Read more →]

While in the US fiber network consolidation has moved into later stages, abroad there is still plenty of room left to run.  Late last week a bit more of it happened down under, as Australia’s Vocus Communications announced an agreement to purchase Ipera Communications.   [Read more →]

Telefonica’s Global Solutions division has selected csco for a next generation backbone upgrade. They’ll be basing the new infrastructure on Cisco’s CRS-3 router in the core and their ASR 9000 at the edge. [Read more →]

The Indian mobile giant Bharti Airtel is putting money into an African IP backbone, and Alcatel-Lucent is providing the technology behind it. Bharti has 17 affiliates in various spots around Africa, and is building an IP/MPLS transport and backhaul network to handle the growing data needs. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Cam Cullen, vice president of global marketing at Procera Networks.

IPv6 continues to be a topic of great interest to ISPs. A survey done by Nominum in conjunction with IPv6 Day shows that Europe is entering a critical phase in dealing with IP address shortages. Europe is served by [Read more →]

We have a new job listing on the Ramblings’ Jobs board this week from none other than Zayo, and four others still active as well. [Read more →]

Three weekends left before Christmas, which has nothing at all to do with the various interesting things that FiberLight, LightPath, Telarus, Bandwidth, and Fairpoint have been up to this week: [Read more →]

zayo may be busy integrating the six acquisitions it has made this year, but they seem to have the mojo to take on new projects in every corner of their footprint. Today they announced a fiber expansion in eastern Oregon. [Read more →]

akam won a big victory from the carrier world this morning, announcing a strategic alliance with none other than t. The two will be combining AT&T’s global IP network portfolio with Akamai’s CDN platform in a jointly marketed, managed, and supported suite of solutions. They’ll be starting out in [Read more →]

eqix, the 800lb gorilla of carrier neutral colocation, notched two more victories in the financial vertical today. This morning it was LMAX in the UK, and the other day it was CBOE in New York. [Read more →]

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

Indian operators could be in for another rocky year in 2013, according to a report from Fitch Ratings, which has assigned the entire sector a negative outlook. [Read more →]

lvlt won another streaming deal this morning from the visionary vertical.  Ok, there is no visionary vertical, but maybe there should be.  TED will be using Level 3’s CDN to stream its Ted Talks videos, of which there are 1,400 now that as a group have been viewed more than [Read more →]

Another quick look at news from international network operators: expansions by Pacnet and Geo, an upgrade at Reliance Globalcom, and a new security offering from Interoute: [Read more →]

Several weeks back when CenturyLink announced its 100G product launch and expansion, the gear they were using was unspecified. There was speculation at the time that it was Infinera’s long awaited Tier 1 win for its DTN-X, and today that speculation became reality. CenturyLink has deployed Infinera’s gear in its backbone, the Tier 1 deed is finally done. [Read more →]

Time for a quick roundup from the colocation sector, with new facilities for Windstream and Equinix, automation enhancements for CoreSite, and a new fiber network tenant for Interxion. [Read more →]

Rochester-based fibertech has announced a major expansion initiative in Ohio. They’ve long had a substantial metro presence in Columbus, but it has been a rather long time since they paid any other attention to the Midwest. [Read more →]

Successful peering agreements and their inner workings usually don’t get their own press releases, but not so today’s settlement-free peering agreement between lvlt and twtc.  But while it hasn’t been in the news lately, Level 3 has been on the warpath regarding the way such agreements ought to be designed ever since the dispute with Comcast a couple years back. [Read more →]