Telecom Ramblings

This article was authored by Lachlan Colquhoun, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

If I had looked at a deal such as the Vodafone-Idea Cellular merger ten years ago, I would have immediately put a tick in most boxes. [Read more →]

The market for fiber and bandwidth in the New York metro area has been a dynamic one, and last year we saw several new providers enter the market in force.  One of those is Cleareon, which a few months ago acquired Pangaea Networks and moved into the lit services space, and which has big plans of both the organic and inorganic variety.  With us today to tell us a bit of what Cleareon has in store for 2017 and beyond is co-CEO Cliff Kane. [Read more →]

Here's a quick look at some other network news from this week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Michael Quinn & Jordan Rupar of Q Advisors

Q Advisors recently joined hundreds of leaders from across the cloud and managed services space at Cavell’s third annual European VoIP Summit in London. Industry consolidation was a recurring theme throughout [Read more →]

Windstream's metro expansion plans have come back home.  The communications provider has revealed an expansion of its footprint in Little Rock, Arkansas, which also happens to house its own headquarters.   [Read more →]

A quick rundown of some news items from across the sector: [Read more →]

What do you get when you mix a motivated major content player, the latest gear, and the most recently constructed transatlantic fiberoptic cable?  A new record of course.  Nokia and Facebook have successfully trialed some new technology, achieving a spectral efficiency of 7.46 b/s/Hz over 5500 kilometers. [Read more →]

Here's a quick rundown of some news from the data center space: [Read more →]

The world of submarine cable systems has been evolving quite rapidly in recent years.  With new cables coming online and big content increasingly driving things, equipment providers are shifting to meet new requirements and keep up with the pace of bandwidth demand.  With us today to give his perspective on the subject is Anthony McLachlan, VP & GM Asia Pacific at Ciena.  Anthony came to Ciena via Nortel, and looks after the company’s global submarine business as well as the APAC region. [Read more →]

OFC is this week out in California, and as such we are seeing optical vendors roll out some big product announcements and technological developments. Infinera is doing just that today, unveiling its next generation of SDN technology in the transport layer, called Instant Network. [Read more →]

The Indian wireless market has been a bit of an M&A soap opera lately, and over the weekend another merger was announced, though not an unexpected one. Vodafone has agreed to merge its Indian unit with Idea in a $23.2B deal. [Read more →]

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

A potential merger between lossmaking Indian state-owned operators BSNL and MTNL is back on the agenda, with the nation's Department of Telecom planning to put a merger proposal before cabinet by [Read more →]

TGIF, and may the ice and snow melt in the Northeastern US over the weekend - it's time for some springtime. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Nav Chander, Senior Director of Marketing at Silver Peak

In my former role as an industry analyst covering managed services, I advised and interacted with more than 100 leading communication service providers ranging from tier 1 global carriers to tier 3 regional carriers and Multiple Systems Operators (MSOs).

At the beginning of 2016, when I asked service providers about [Read more →]

Uniti Fiber is unveiling plans today for a new metro fiber expansion this morning in a market that rarely makes the national news.  They plan to build out a fiber network in and around the city of Shreveport. [Read more →]

Wilcon is expanding its footprint again in southern California.  The regional and metro provider said this morning that it is deploying dark fiber deeper into the Los Angeles metro area. [Read more →]

A few quick takes on news from the last 24 hours or so: [Read more →]

This morning Ciena took the wraps off of its next generation approach to the building and operating of fiberoptic networks. They are calling it Liquid Spectrum, and it takes the movement toward software defined networks deep into the transport layer. [Read more →]

As the US East coast digs out from the recent storms, here's a quick rundown on some other news from this week: [Read more →]

As promised, Oak Hill Capital Partners polished off its acquisition of Sovernet and immediately combined its operations with that of FirstLight Fiber, just as it recently did with Oxford Networks. [Read more →]

As a Nor'easter hits my area, I'll be hunkered down and hoping the power holds out.  In the meantime, here's a quick rundown on some news from early this week. [Read more →]

Akamai and AT&T have renewed their global alliance, extending it through 2019.  That will keep Akamai's CDN and web security services on AT&T's business solutions menu, including the addition of DDoS capabilities.  Akamai will also be able to further extend it's server footprint out onto AT&T's edge.   [Read more →]

This article was authored by Lachlan Colquhoun, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Serial telecoms entrepreneur Alexey Reznikovich says that building an “enabled gateway” to customers is the key to survival for traditional telecoms players, who need to stop relying on the diminishing returns from connectivity. [Read more →]