Telecom Ramblings

In an interesting network MA move up in the Pacific Northwest, Fatbeam today announced the purchase of the IP Connect division of Ednetics. The deal widens Fatbeam’s customer base in its core region while broadening its product portfolio with more lit services. [Read more →]

A few stories from around the world worth noting to start the week: [Read more →]

What has three ends, two webscales, and 130ms round trip latency?  A new transpacific cable system of course.  The Bay to Bay Express Cable System consortium has signed up NEC to build the new system which will connect California to Hong Kong and Singapore. [Read more →]

What do you get a data center REIT that operates over 200 data centers in 11 countries on 4 continents? The fifth continent so it would seem. According to a report from Bloomberg yesterday, that’s what Digital Realty is working on. [Read more →]

Two interesting colo items from overseas during the break, and two from the US in the week prior that are worth noting: [Read more →]

According to a piece over on Bloomberg, a substantial chunk of data center infrastructure may be about to change hands. The Australian private equity group Macquarie Group is said to be closing in on a majority stake in T5 Data Centers. [Read more →]

Another Chinese firm has run into a wall when it comes to accessing the U.S. telecommunications marketplace. The NTIA has recommended that China Mobile’s application to offer telecommunications between the USA and other countries be denied. [Read more →]

The engineering and construction folks that underlie the expansion of all the infrastructure we use tend to operate behind the curtains, but there are expansion and consolidation stories there too. Today one of those companies, New Jersey-based Hylan, made a significant move to expand its presence out in the Midwest with the acquisition of the utility field services units of Tetra Tech. [Read more →]

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

5G networks will have a critical role to play in the safety design of autonomous vehicles, according to Gartner. [Read more →]

Colt has been steadily expanding its network lately, both in terms of geographic reach and nextgen technology. This morning the company announced an expansion into EdgeConneX’s edge data center footprint, and late last week unveiled plans to move into the uCPE market as well. [Read more →]

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 →]