Telecom Ramblings

Yesterday saw some interesting M&A news within the world of optical vendors. Infinera has announced an agreement to acquire Coriant for some $430M in cash and stock. [Read more →]

A few product and market expansions worth noting to start the week: [Read more →]

Fresh off the RFS of Hawaiki, Australia will soon have even more new connectivity at its disposal. According to Vocus the laying of the 4600 kilometer Australia Singapore Cable is now complete. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prodapt

More and more digital service providers (DSPs) are adopting Virtual Network Function (VNF) to reap key benefits of virtualization such as accelerated service realization, reduced time-to-market, better scalability, and cost-effective & centralized network monitoring. [Read more →]

The Pacific has a new submarine cable as of today.  The Hawaiki cable system has officially launched, connecting the Pacific Northwest with New Zealand and Australia via Hawaii with up to 43Tbps of initial design capacity.  The cable spans some 15,000km and cost about $300M to build.  With us today to give us a bit more color on just what Hawaiki has built and what is next on the menu is CEO Rémi Galasso.
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A few interesting tidbits from over in Europe: [Read more →]

Two enterprise contracts in the US, plus a new interconnection and an M&A over in Europe, and a federal contract that are worth a look: [Read more →]

Google’s submarine cable splurge seems to gain momentum every year, and as time goes on they are steadily taking a more direct hand. Today they unveiled their latest project, the Dunant transatlantic cable system, named after the Swiss Nobel Laureate and founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant. [Read more →]

This past weekend, the telecom & data community lost one of its own. Jon DeLuca passed away on Saturday after a bout with cancer at the far too young age of 46. [Read more →]

Some data center and cloud connectivity news that’s worth noting: [Read more →]

There has been some interesting consolidation in the cloud space over in Europe this week, as one of the continent’s largest network operators has made another move to augment its capabilities in cloud-based infrastructure. Orange Business Services has agreed to acquire Basefarm Holding. [Read more →]

The African fiber market may finally have a terrestrial link from North to South. Liquid Telecom and Telecom Egypt have signed an MOU to link up their fiber networks and enable Liquid Telecom to hook up Cairo to Cape Town without going under the waves. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

According to the market status of 1^st half of 2018, while SD-WAN adoption by enterprises of all sizes and verticals is accelerating, there are some barriers along the road as well. [Read more →]

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

The US government has lifted its denial order against ZTE, finally clearing the way for the vendor to resume major operations. [Read more →]

Crosslake Fibre, Metro Optic, and Utilities Kingston have unveiled plans for a new and unique fiber route hooking up the key markets of eastern Canada. The project will be part terrestrial and part under water, starting in Toronto and finishing up in Montreal via a diverse route. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed By Jabulani Dhliwayo, founder of FiberGuide

The demand for high bandwidth continues to grow, driven by video streaming, cloud services, Internet of Things (IoT), upcoming 5G mobile networks, and other bandwidth hungry applications. This in turn is driving the need for very high transmission speed in [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by the Oregon Fishermen’s Cable Committee.  It’s not a perfect fit for this section, but given their status as a nonprofit with a unique point of view I decided to relax the usual restrictions.

Around the globe commercial fishermen and owners of undersea telecommunications cable are typically at odds—cables get laid across prime fishing grounds, then fishermen are told not to fish near them, angering fishermen.  On a global scale, more submarine cables are severed or damaged by fishing vessels than any other cause, frustrating cable owners.  [Read more →]

This morning brings an interesting but somewhat difficult to parse M&A in the service provider space.  Lingo has announced an agreement to acquire Impact Telecom.   [Read more →]

AT&T made a move yesterday to bolster its network security portfolio with the announcement of plans to acquire AlienVault.  San Mateo-based AlienVault specializes in threat detection, analyzing data from the Open Threat Exchange to enable collaborative defense. [Read more →]

Three bits of mid-week news worth noting: [Read more →]

Frankfurt-based internet exchange provider DE-CIX has unveiled a new Project Reach initiative to extend its effective reach into more data centers across Europe. To get that done they’ll be tapping the network of pan-European bandwidth infrastructure provider euNetworks. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Jouko Ahvenainen, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Digitization is coming to all services, also linked to physical services. It will change the user experience significantly. It helps us to get rid of many [Read more →]

A quick rundown on some news items worth a look: [Read more →]