Telecom Ramblings

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

Australian operator Telstra has been hit with two more network outages in the span of three days, weeks after committing to invest to improve its network resilience. [Read more →]

A significant chunk of data centers in Asia will be changing ownership structure.  The Indian carrier Tata Communications is selling a 74% stake in its data center business in India and Singapore to ST Telemedia.  Tata Communications will retain a 26% stake in the business, which becomes a joint venture. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on a few more interesting news items to keep an eye on: [Read more →]

When you’re a vendor of Cisco’s size, you get to be a bellwether whether you like the title or not.  Reports from other vendors over the last few weeks haven’t inspired the market with confidence, and thus many eyes were on Cisco to determine whether or not to panic.  The answer was no.  All is well at least so far as Cisco’s fiscal Q3 earnings report can tell us. and should continue to be so at least into next quarter. [Read more →]

The plans for a cable through the Arctic Ocean took a dramatic new turn today.  Quintillion Subsea Holdings, which has been building a cable system along the Alaska coast, has purchased the assets of Arctic Fibre, which had been planning a cable system stretching from Japan to the UK through the Northwest Passage. [Read more →]

Here are a few news items from around the world that are worth a look: [Read more →]

There was a bit of inorganic action this morning from a corner of the industry that has been pretty quiet lately.  Inteliquent has acquired Shopety, Inc, which does business as Better Voice, as a means to add muscle to its Omni platform. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on a few news items from the start of the week: [Read more →]

A substantial amount of colo space will be changing hands according to this morning’s news. Equinix has decided to divest itself of eight data centers over in Europe, and Digital Realty has stepped up to acquire the assets for approximately $874M. In parallel, Equinix gets a binding option to acquire Digital Realty’s facility in St. Denis, Paris. [Read more →]

With the political primaries winding down, let’s have a poll of our own.  One of the bigger stories of the spring is the Verizon strike, which has grown increasingly nasty since starting four weeks ago and yesterday apparently spread across the Pacific to the Philippines in what looks to have been a very scary incident.  In the end, how disruptive do you think this situation will be to the industry and infrastructure as a whole? [Read more →]

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

The business world is after disruptive business innovations. While there is debate as to the definition of disruptive innovations (see HBR article), the definition is not so relevant in practice. The more relevant question is whether a new innovation opens opportunities for new companies and is a fatal threat to old business. [Read more →]

Earlier this Spring, the Hawaiki cable project announced its contract with TE Subcom had come into force.  They had raised the necessary funds to kick off the construction phase, and yesterday we learned where some of those funds came from.  Amazon’s AWS division has stepped up for a large chunk of capacity on the system, becoming a high profile anchor customer on a submarine cable system for the first time. [Read more →]

It’s been a busy week at all levels of the industry, here’s another roundup of news items worth a look from competitive providers: [Read more →]

Verizon’s union workforce has been on strike for the last month or so in what has been one of the biggest features of the Spring telecommunications landscape in the northeastern US. Sometimes these things are perfunctory, making a negotiating point before doing the deal everyone knows will get done. That’s clearly not the case this time though, and it’s starting to get ugly. [Read more →]

There’s plenty of news on the international network front to get to this week with ITW finishing up.  Here’s a roundup of some new or expanded strategic relationships that are worth noting: [Read more →]

While no longer publicly traded, euNetworks posts its financials and thus provides a pure-play look into the European infrastructure sector.  This morning they posted Q1 results, holding firm sequentially on the top line and keeping nearly all of last quarter’s EBITDA gains.  Here are their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

Cross River Fiber, which made its name rewiring northern New Jersey for low latency, is taking aim at the Jersey Shore. This morning they announced an expansion to the south, taking aim at the backhaul market from the state’s cable landing stations. [Read more →]

Yesterday’s roundup focused on the international, today’s on the regional and metro: [Read more →]

With ITW underway, there’s lots of news this morning from the international front.  Here’s a quick look at a few: [Read more →]

Electric Lightwave, the infrastructure brand that Integra revived last year, announced this morning that its network is rather larger now.  The network provider has doubled its network long-haul routes. [Read more →]

One of the biggest infrastructure trends at present is the rising importance of the network edge.  As the content world pushes its caches closer to the consumer, data center infrastructure providers have responded and few have done so with more vigor than EdgeConneX.  With two dozen locations in the US and more on the way, the company recently announced plans to take their campaign across the Atlantic to tackle the European edge too.  With us today to talk about those European expansion plans and a few other topics is Clint Heiden, EdgeConneX’s Chief Commercial Officer. [Read more →]

We have several new postings from today to start off your week.  Actually, more than several — an dozen actually.  An even 10 from Lightower Fiber Networks plus listings from ColoHouse and the University of Connecticut.  [Read more →]

This month will see the launch of United Cable Company, a new affiliate of the David Ross Group that hopes to stir up some trouble in and around the submarine cable marketplace.  Eric Gutshall is helping to found the new entity and will act as its Global Head of Asset & Capacity Sales.  Eric is is moving over to UCC from his longtime role at Hibernia Networks, where he was one of the prime movers behind the first transatlantic cable to be built in a decade.  He’s here today for a quick chat prior to ITW next week.  [Read more →]