Telecom Ramblings

Last week I had the privilege of moderating a CEO Roundtable “If it can be hacked… Network Security & the new Reality” at the Telecom Exchange in Hoboken NJ.  The format was novel, with the conversation itself under Chatham House Rules but recorded visually by a whiteboard artist from Ink Factory and an overall task of producing a list of action items for the industry to move forward on in the short term.  Here is the image of that whiteboard that resulted: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Alan Zeichick of Camden Associates

For enterprises, the ultimate purpose of the network is to connect end-users to applications. What the best way to make that connection – and make it affordable, scalable, secure, and reliable? [Read more →]

The European power and telecoms utility Enel has bought itself a stake in some Latin American metro fiber. They have spent €150M for a 21% stake in Ufinet plus an option. They also acquired an option to buy the rest in a couple years for as much as €2.1B.  [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

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Here is another set of quick-takes worth a look from this week – three network upgrades and two new interconnection partnerships: [Read more →]

Here’s a set of news bytes from the first part of this week that are worth noting, all of which focus on vendors and network operators working toward improved underlying platforms. [Read more →]

What infrastructure piece doesn’t the combined company of AT&T and Time Warner need to own? We know the answer to that question now: colocation. AT&T announced late last week that it is selling its data center assets to Brookfield Infrastructure. [Read more →]

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

Russia’s Sistema has sold its entire stake in Indian operator Reliance Communications (RCom) and has reportedly abandoned plans to buy the operator’s remaining telecoms assets. [Read more →]

TGIF, here are a few news bytes to end the week, with two colo expansions, a new cloud data service, and some SD-WAN. [Read more →]

The bidding war is definitely on. In response to Comcast’s competing bid for Fox, the folks at Disney are definitely not backing down. Yesterday Disney raised its bid to $38/share, working out to a total of $71.3B in cash and stock as well as the assumption of [Read more →]

I’ll be at the Telecom Exchange today, so if you’re there don’t hesitate to say hi.  In the meantime, here are a few news bytes to keep an eye on: [Read more →]

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

Australia’s largest operator Telstra has announced plans to eliminate 8,000 jobs and establish a standalone infrastructure business as part of a broad-based restructuring strategy. [Read more →]

According to a fascinating report over on Capacity this morning, the melting ice up north has brought with it a new iteration of Arctic cable dreams. A new cable project is close to lining up the backing necessary to connect East Asia and Europe via a northern route. [Read more →]

A few news items worth noting, one from the world of politics and two featuring data centers getting additional connectivity. [Read more →]

Italy’s newest infrastructure player has made another consolidation move. IRIDEOS today announced the acquisition of Enter. [Read more →]

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 →]