Telecom Ramblings

Well, they certainly wasted no time. Two days after a federal judge nixed the federal government's objections to the deal, AT&T has completed its acquisition of Time Warner. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prodapt

As per Gartner report titled “The Gartner scenario for Communications Service Providers: Routes to the future,” digital/adjacent market services like Pay TV, VOD, M2M communications, and data-only connections will be contributing towards revenue growth [Read more →]

A few quick takes for the day: two new data centers, some colo for webscale, and an Ethernet partnership. [Read more →]

The ink isn't even dry on the judge's decision rejecting the federal government's suit to stop the AT&T/Time Warner Deal, and Comcast has already made its move. Yesterday the cable giant officially bid for Twenty-First Century Fox. [Read more →]

In a pair of interesting announcements this morning, ADVA offered a glimpse of what is to come in the realm of quantum-powered network security. [Read more →]

AT&T is definitely having a good week. Yesterday a federal judge ruled in the company's favor and swept away the federal government's objections to the company's purchase of Time Warner. [Read more →]

EdgeConneX and Renovo have announced a new collaboration to advance 'Vehicle-Edge-Cloud Infrastructure and Data Orchestration'. They hope to pair EdgeConneX's data centers out at the network edge with Renovo's cloud-based software to better support deployment of automated vehicle fleets at scale. [Read more →]

Here are a few quick takes on news from the start of this week: [Read more →]

It will be official today, the net neutrality regulations put in place under former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski will be wiped from the books.  This has been a major piece of current FCC chairman Ajit Pai's agenda, and he can now check it off of his to-do list. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Allan Tan, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $6.29 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18), a healthy increase of 10.9% year over year. Meanwhile, the worldwide [Read more →]

Some news from around the world to finish off the week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Scott Askins, VP of Channels and Strategic Alliances at Netrality Properties

It’s no secret that cloud adoption has risen astronomically over the past few years. Thanks to the even more recent explosion of public cloud services, hybrid cloud has replaced private clouds as the most dominant force in enterprise computing. According to McAfee, more than half of the enterprises they surveyed in 2017 had adopted hybrid cloud, and they forecasted [Read more →]

Here's a quick rundown on some other news from this week: [Read more →]

The Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is making a new move on the US telecommunications marketplace. America Movil announced plans today for a new US-based subsidiary, Claro Enterprise Solutions LLC. [Read more →]

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

Super SEA Cable Networks has announced that the SEAX-1 subsea cable system linking Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia is now ready for provisional acceptance. [Read more →]

Three interesting bits of fiber news from three metro areas in the eastern and northeastern US: [Read more →]

In the news so far this week are two colo buildouts and two network expansions across four data centers in four global markets: [Read more →]

CenturyLink says it will be handling the transmission of international distribution and unilateral feeds for this summer's soccer World Cup for key networks in the Americas.  The networks include Fox in the USA, TV Azteca in Mexico, and both RCN and Caracol in Colombia. [Read more →]

Here are several interesting news items from over the weekend that are worth a look as you start the week: [Read more →]

One of the more unique operators in the US Ethernet transport infrastructure space is INDATEL Services, which sits atop a national collection of statewide member-owners fiber networks.  Both INDATEL and its member companies have kept a relatively low profile throughout the waves of consolidation that have swept the fiber space over the last decade.  Yet with the demands of 5G and other next generation technologies looming on the horizon, [Read more →]

There's been some more consolidation in the fiber sector this week. ExteNet Systems has made its second move within the New York metro area with an agreement to acquire Hudson Fiber Network. [Read more →]

MEF has posted a progress update on its 3.0 work in Ethernet, IP, SD-WAN, and Layer 1 standardization. The MEF 62 specification for Managed Access E-Line has now been [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Sue Graham Johnston, President of 128 Technology

It surprises me that the shift to software defined networking (SDN) hasn't been an absolute avalanche of activity.  One of my theories is that networking is believed to be some black art deep in the heart of the IT team.  Because of that, business executives haven't [Read more →]