Telecom Ramblings

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

ITEM: Two of Asia-Pacific’s rising stars in the OTT video scene took the stage at Capacity Asia 2015 in Bangkok Tuesday – partly to showcase their exclusive content libraries, and partly to assure telcos that they are partners, not competitors. [Read more →]

We have four new job listings to look at over on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board this Decembers weekend. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some cloud news from this week before you all go home for the weekend: [Read more →]

We haven’t had a Friday poll for a long time.  But as network neutrality goes back to court, let’s ask the question.  Will it survive in its current form?  Not ‘should it’ (as that is a different question), but ‘will it’? [Read more →]

Today the FCC’s latest regulatory effort to impose network neutrality on the internet will face a challenge it’s faced many times but not in a successful way. Yep, it’s time to go back into to court and try, try again. [Read more →]

A quick roundup of a few recent news items: [Read more →]

Zayo revealed its latest wireless backhaul buildout project yesterday.  They’ll be expanding their network in and around the southeastern metropolis of Atlanta after winning a 20 year contract from an unnamed major wireless operator. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some interesting news from the week so far: [Read more →]

Aqua Comms reached another milestone in the construction of AEConnect yesterday. They have completed the final splice on the marine segment of the submarine cable system as the project moves into the home stretch.  [Read more →]

As we in the US head for the gym to work off the Thanksgiving feast, here is a quick look at news from overseas where turkey isn’t a thing: [Read more →]

Yesterday saw a small item of data center M&A over on the other side of the Atlantic.  VIRTUS Data Centres has announced the purchase of the company that owns and operates the Slough Data Centre of Infinity SDC Limited.   [Read more →]

According to a release this morning, Birch Communications is doubling down on its metro fiber-based expansion. The privately held network operator says it has added another 80,000 buildings to its fiber reach across 22 states, a boost of 25% over the reach they had achieved just 2 months ago. [Read more →]

The UK-based alternative metro fiber builder and operator CityFibre has found more fertile ground in Scotland.  Over the Thanksgiving break, they announced plans to make Glasgow another of its Gigabit City projects. [Read more →]

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

Once upon a time many companies were able to manage their whole infrastructure and implement all services alone for a customers. Telecom operators offered the telephone services – including value added services – and tried to make the ecosystem more dynamic with their own intelligent networks. And they wanted to [Read more →]

We have a new job listing to look at over on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board this holiday weekend. [Read more →]

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the MEF‘s GEN15 conference in Dallas, Texas as a media sponsor. Software-defined Networking, Network Functions Virtualization, and Lifecycle Service Orchestration were the big buzzphrases just as they were last year. But there was a distinct difference in the air. [Read more →]

AMS-IX has found another new market to export its internet exchange model to, and it’s kind of a potentially big one. They’ve entered into a strategic agreement with ChinaCache through which what is being billed as the first IX in mainland China will be built and operated. [Read more →]

Here are several interesting bits of vendor news from the last few days that are worth a look: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang

Starting approximately from the year of 2008, major US telcos like Verizon, CentruryLink, AT&T, Sprint all have started to embrace the cloud computing strategy so as to “move up the value chain” and re-position themselves from legacy network to [Read more →]

Windstream’s longhaul expansion continued this week with a new route in the southeast. According to an announcement today, they have rolled out the Miami leg of their Infinera-powered 500G core network. Two weeks ago, they did the same thing out to Denver. [Read more →]

In a surprise Thanksgiving-week deal, Zayo has announced that it has entered into an agreement to buy Allstream from MTS.  The purchase will take Zayo into the Canadian bandwidth market at one fell swoop.  [Read more →]

In an announcement last week, another transpacific submarine cable rather quietly entered the picture.  China Soft Power Technology said it has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with TE Subcom in connection to the Pacific Light Cable Networks. [Read more →]

Megaport has revealed plans to take its SDN-powered interconnection platform public down under.  The two-year-old operator has applied to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). [Read more →]