Telecom Ramblings

It seems like a crazy decision by UK voters, but they did it.  Britain has actually voted by a thin margin to leave the EU.  I leave the details of all that to those who specialize in it, but what about our little world.  What does this mean for telecommunications and infrastructure companies?  A few thoughts, followed by a poll. [Read more →]

Comcast Business is taking aim at the SMB and enterprise markets in the state of Virginia.  Yesterday they announced plans to spend more than $9M over the next year to expand their fiber and Ethernet network reach to as many as 3,000 additional businesses. [Read more →]

Having specialized options to hook enterprises up to the various big cloud providers have become table stakes in the bandwidth game.  Here are three cloud connectivity announcements to look at this morning.   [Read more →]

CityFibre announced the signing of a new national master services agreement with Level 3 Communications.  The MSA will let Level 3 more smoothly access fiber routes on the rapidly growing CityFibre footprint in metro areas around the UK. [Read more →]

As it puts SDN into practice in its network on a significant scale, CenturyLink is taking a new software-defined product to market. Today they unveiled a fully managed SD-WAN. [Read more →]

The search giant google and the cloud communications specialist RingCentral are joining forces to serve apps and UC to the enterprise. They’ve got a new offering called RingCentral Office Google Edition in the form of a plug-in in the Google Apps marketplace. It is intended to bring together RingCentral’s communications platform with Google Apps and related technologies like Google Hangouts. [Read more →]

I’m at the Telecom Exchange in NYC today. In the meantime, here are a few quick-takes of news from around the globe: [Read more →]

Here are a couple of quick-takes from around the USA for this Tuesday morning. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Adam Janota, VP of Global Marketing, Console

The rapid shift by Enterprise IT to a cloud consumption model is increasing network traffic exponentially. The numbers speak for themselves; the Rightscale 2016 State of the Cloud report found that 95% out of 1060 IT professionals surveyed, are using cloud services. As cloud consumption increases, enterprises are scrambling [Read more →]

Communications Sales & Leasing has made its second acquisition of the year.  The network REIT that was born from Windstream in the Spring of 2015 has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tower Cloud.   [Read more →]

There was more consolidation in the world of VoIP and UC last week that managed to slip past my nets.  Onvoy has signed an agreement to buy ANZ Communications, which is the parent company of ANPI. [Read more →]

We have a new job listing on the Ramblings Jobs Board this week from Walker and Associates. [Read more →]

Telecom Ramblings will be at the Telecom Exchange next week, so if you’re there feel free to look me up.  In the meantime, here is a quick look at some other news from this week that is worth a look: [Read more →]

GTT’s network expansion took it to a new continent today.  The IP and Ethernet backbone operator has further boosted its APAC presence with a new point of presence down in Sydney, Australia. [Read more →]

A few weeks short of fourteen months after spinning off CS&L as the industry’s first (and still only) network REIT, Windstream has disposed of half its remaining stake in the company.  To be more specific, they did a debt-for-equity exchange with the CS&L shares, transferring them to creditors who sold them to Citigroup Global Markets, who then sold them to institutional investors led by Searchlight Capital Partners. [Read more →]

Ok, that was a bad literary pun, let’s get that out of the way right now.  I just couldn’t help myself.  But Lightower announced an expansion of its network in New York City today, adding a new direct route between New Jersey and Brooklyn. [Read more →]

Here’s a midweek update, with two new data center projects, a DIY CDN, and a UC move in China. [Read more →]

Internet activists are celebrating while large telecommunications providers are regrouping today.  Yesterday the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the FCC’s current implementation of network neutrality. [Read more →]

CenturyLink’s cloud ambitions remain, and this morning they did another small M&A aimed at bringing more technology and talent in-house.  CenturyLink has acquired ElasticBox, whose main claim to fame is a multi-cloud application management service.   [Read more →]

Fiber will soon be coming to a piece of Maryland that has rarely gotten the attention of the market.  FTS Fiber, a builder and operator of dark fiber infrastructure that I haven’t run into until now, revealed plans yesterday to begin construction of a significant fiber build in rural Kent Count, Maryland. [Read more →]

Here are several bits of vendor news that are worth a look for this Monday morning: [Read more →]

EdgeConneX’s expansion into the enterprise interconnection space arrived in the rust belt this morning. They’ve teamed up with Console, which is deploying its interconnection platform at the company’s Detroit edge data center in Southfield, Michigan. [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

There are many conversations to be had about network virtualization in general, and SDN in particular. One conversation we don’t always hear about is the human factor – which is to say resistance from telecoms department heads who see SDN as a challenge to their livelihoods, [Read more →]