Telecom Ramblings

I’m on the road this week, but the rest of the world rolls on.  Here are a few US network bits of news worth noting: [Read more →]

A few items from Europe worth noting from the first half of this week: [Read more →]

Reports over the weekend emerged that Italy’s TIM Group is taking a look at the future of its international division, Sparkle. The word is that the investment bank Rothschild will be hired to advise TIM about a potential sale. [Read more →]

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

The consortium behind the INDIGO Central subsea cable has announced its landing in Sydney, Australia. [Read more →]

The cloud computing space may be about to shift again due to a dramatic weekend M&A announcement from IBM.  The industry giant has announced an agreement to acquire the Linux specialist Red Hat.   [Read more →]

Telia Carrier and Infinera have teamed up to achieve a new milestone in bandwidth. In an announcement this morning, the two revealed what they bill as the first real-time 600Gbps wavelengths in a live production network. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Fabrice Coquio, Managing Director of Interxion France

In today’s digital world, physical location is still critically important for the creation and distribution of digital content. One French city is a classic example. [Read more →]

Two interconnection partnerships, some metro-subsea connectivity, and a bit of UCaaS north of the border: [Read more →]

Zayo announced yesterday that it has sold some dark fiber to Quantum Xchange on the east coast. Quantum Xchange is working on a national network to power its Quantum Key Distribution network, which leverages new techniques from quantum mechanics to encrypt and decrypt messages. [Read more →]

A couple bits of news from around the world that are worth noting at mid-week: [Read more →]

Four interesting bits of network news worth noting from the start of this week: [Read more →]

Four companies are working together in a united front on the east coast of the US to create what they are calling the Continental Edge. 1025Connect, Aqua Comms, DE-CIX, and Epsilon are teaming up to provide a holistic network solution for those in need of transatlantic connectivity.  I caught a glimpse of this a few weeks ago at DE-CIX’s MAD event in NYC, and it’s quite interesting. [Read more →]

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

Ericsson has announced an agreement with Limelight Networks to add content delivery capabilities to its new Ericsson Unified Delivery Network (UDN) platform. [Read more →]

Huawei Marine Networks and the 12,000 kilometer PEACE Cable system have hit a new milestone. The project has now entered into the cable and material manufacturing stage, staying on schedule for an RFS date in the first quarter of 2020. [Read more →]

The rise of the cloud and automation in general opened new potential business models for service providers.   One such provider that has taken advantage is the hybrid IT specialist Apcela, whose roots lie in the low latency, high speed trading networks that arose a decade ago.  With us today to talk about how Apcela got where they are and where they might be going is founder and CEO Mark Casey.  [Read more →]

SD-WAN entered the market initially being positioned as an alternative or replacement to legacy WAN solutions such as MPLS. However, as more enterprises plan to kick off Digital Transformation (DX) so as to better run the business and serve the customers, now it’s worth [Read more →]

A bit of everything today: some metro fiber, some data center real estate, some cloud connectivity, and a bit of subsea action: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Fiona Chau, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net

Japan’s Softbank and automaker Toyota announced plans to form a joint venture by April 2019 to provide launch Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) in the country. [Read more →]

A few items from EMEA worth noting from the first half of this week: [Read more →]

Yesterday DE-CIX announced the completion of what had to have been an epic infrastructure migration on its home turf. The company spent the summer moving one of the core nodes of its Frankfurt IX from one data center to another, with the IX remaining live the entire time. [Read more →]

One by sea, one by land, and two by api: [Read more →]

For over a decade, the fiber industry has been focused on the metro and middle mile as the path to success. But having solved that business model, some in the industry are now turning their attention toward what has been a harder nut to crack — fiber to the home.  GoNetSpeed is a recent entry in that arena, launching its services in the Pittsburgh metro area and in suburban Connecticut.  With us today to talk about the opportunity they see and how they are taking advantage of it are two familiar faces: the company’s president, Larry Coleman, and its COO, Tom Perrone, veterans of Sunesys and Fibertech/Lightower, respectively. [Read more →]

TGIF, but first two metro fiber items, one big data center, and an IX goes to court in Europe: [Read more →]