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Metro Bytes: FirstLight, Colo Atl, Tower Cloud, Webair
July 20th, 2016
It’s time for a quick update on news from the metro: [Read more →]
What the FCC’s 5G spectrum plan means for Ka-band satellite
July 20th, 2016
This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
Last week the FCC voted unanimously to open up nearly 11 GHz of high-frequency spectrum – 3.85 GHz of licensed spectrum and 7 GHz of unlicensed spectrum – for “flexible, mobile, and fixed use wireless broadband”, which basically means 5G. [Read more →]
Netrality Acquires Its Way Into the Heart of St. Louis
July 19th, 2016
Netrality Properties has hit the acquisition trail again. The company has closed the acquisition of two data centers from Digital Realty Trust out in St. Louis, Missouri as well as a bit of colo from 365 Data Centers. I’ve hear d whispers of this deal for most of the past couple of quarters, but it took a while to work out the details it seems. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Level 3, TI Sparkle, BT
July 19th, 2016
Here’s a quick bit of news from three global service providers from the start of this week: [Read more →]
Zayo Selected for Longhaul Dark Fiber
July 18th, 2016
On Friday, Zayo revealed a new customer win for longhaul dark fiber. An unnamed ‘major U.S. carrier’ has tapped them for a 20 year fiber IRU worth $50M spanning some 3,200 route miles through nine markets and eight states. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Ciena On Services, SDN, and NFV
July 18th, 2016
Of all the new technologies that are now coming of age in the infrastructure world, it is SDN and NFV that are causing the most wide-ranging shifts. All vendors have been preparing for the new milieu, but few have taken as dramatic steps as Ciena did with the purchase and integration of Cyan last year. Tying those capabilities in with their Services division, they have quickly put together the means to help network operators hit the accelerator on SDN and NFV at just the right time. With us today to talk about how they see it all panning out are Pamela Morgan, Services Marketing Lead for Ciena’s Services division, and Joe Cumello, VP of Portfolio Marketing at Ciena. [Read more →]
Friday Bytes: Orange Business, CyrusOne, Champion ONE, Sprint
July 15th, 2016
Here’s a quick rundown of some news on this Friday, which has been marred by the horror in the French City of Nice. [Read more →]
The importance of network security in the age of the Internet of Things
July 15th, 2016
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Robin Kent, director of European operations at Adax
The speed at which the telecoms industry is needing to keep up with rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is quite alarming. Network operators are frantically trying to make sure everything is in place to satisfy the inevitable end user demands and expectations. We’ve heard about [Read more →]
EarthLink Hits Acquisition Trail, Buys Boston Retail Partners
July 14th, 2016
After a year of retrenching and refocusing on its core businesses, EarthLink has returned to the M&A arena with a small summer deal. The service provider has bought Boston Retail Partners, a management consulting firm that specializes in the retail vertical. [Read more →]
AT&T Adds FTTB Depth, Offers a Few Datapoints
July 14th, 2016
AT&T is putting more resources into its Business Fiber division. According to a series of PRs yesterday, the company has expanded its potential fiber reach to as many as one million businesses nationwide. They are also extending next generation voice and UC solutions along that fiber to their business customers along the 1Gbps connections they are offering. [Read more →]
Rumors of a Comcast Purchase of Level 3 Bubble to the Surface
July 14th, 2016
Yesterday, Level 3 stock surged a few dollars on the backs of a bit of good old fashioned rumor and speculation. Benzinga reported to its users that Level 3 is considering strategic options that range from a stock buyback to a sale of the company. Follow-on reports quickly brought in the suggestion of an eventual buyout by Comcast, which Cowen’s Colby Syneseal speculated about at the end of last year. [Read more →]
UNH-IOL Launches an SDN Consortium
July 13th, 2016
The world of software-defined networking got a new consortium today up in northern New England. The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory has kicked off the effort in order to help vendors and network operators work together to solve the problems that will inevitably arise with the coming deployments of both SDN and NFV. [Read more →]
TelePacific Makes Another National Step Forward
July 13th, 2016
TelePacific has made another move onto the national stage, expanding out from its regional roots via organic means this time. The competitive service provider has rolled out advanced Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) capabilities in a pilot project in a collection of states around the country. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Equinix, ADVA, Colt, vXchnge
July 12th, 2016
It’s time for a quick rundown of some news from the start of this week: [Read more →]
Virtual Reality and the Next Big Shift: Tried Pokemon Go Yet?
July 11th, 2016
Something interesting has happened in the gaming world over the past week, and I’m starting to think the repercussions could spread pretty quickly. An old game has been presented in a new way, melding silly cute imaginary creatures with Google Maps, GPS, and lots of mobile bandwidth. I’m speaking of course about Pokemon Go, which is sweeping far more quickly through the airwaves than people think. [Read more →]
Zayo Lands in Singapore
July 11th, 2016
Zayo is expanding on the international front, but this time via organic means. They have been selected by an unnamed global cloud communications provider to hook up nine data centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. As Zayo isn’t in Asia yet, that’s where the expansion comes in. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Lenny Chesal, Chief Evangelist of Host.Net
July 11th, 2016
Host.net is a regional operator offering network, colo, and cloud services operating out of southern Florida. With its origins back in the dot com bubble, Host.net has followed a colorful, opportunistic path through the worlds of ISPs, metro Ethernet, Colo, and most recently cloud services. With us today to talk about the company’s past and future trajectory is Chief Evangelist Lenny Chesal. [Read more →]
Mitel’s Polycom Deal Preempted
July 8th, 2016
Fiber M&A: Oak Hill to Acquire Oxford, Combine with FirstLight
July 7th, 2016
There was a significant fiber M&A development in the far northeast today. Oak Hill Capital Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Oxford Networks, following up on its previously announced deal to acquire FirstLight Fiber. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: ADVA, Ericsson, Hurricane Electric, Epsilon, Orange Business
July 7th, 2016
Here’s a quick roundup of some interesting network news from around the world this week. [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: Cox Invests in Unite Private Networks
July 7th, 2016
Late yesterday, the cable operator Cox Communications made a significant move deeper into the world of metro and regional fiber. They have made a strategic investment in Unite Private Networks, becoming a major shareholder alongside Ridgemont Equity Partners and the company’s management team. [Read more →]
Comcast, Netflix Make Peace
July 6th, 2016
The cable giant Comcast and the OTT challenger Netflix didn’t see eye to eye very often in the first half of this decade. But today the news is of a very different sort. As Comcast rolls out its new X1 set-top box, Netflix’s video content will be among the choices the cable operator offers to consumers. [Read more →]
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