Telecom Ramblings

Amidst my travels this month, I missed a few items indicating that Windstream is shopping its data center and hosting business.  The latest is from Gary Kim over at IP Carrier, but it seems to have been bubbling through the cracks for a couple of weeks now.   [Read more →]

After yet another quick trip, my summer travels are now over at last. As we slide into the end of Summer, here’s a look at some news on the international front from the start of the week: [Read more →]

More pieces of internet infrastructure are showing up out at the edge.  This week, the piece in question is security, with CloudFlare partnering up with EdgeConneX nationwide. [Read more →]

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

Some people have been asking me what I think of the Avid Life Media/Ashley Madison hack, and the hackers making good on their threat to release the stolen data on the internet. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Sheldon Smith, Senior Product Manager at XO Communications

Voice-over-IP (VoIP) networks are quickly replacing plain old telephone service (POTS) in both enterprise environments and SMB settings. While C-suites and front-line employees worry about implementation and the bottom line on a case-by-case basis, IT professionals and industry experts see the bigger picture: [Read more →]

The Business VoIP world continues to consolidate, and this morning Vonage was again in the thick of it with a new acquisition. They are acquiring iCore Networks for $92M in cash. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some other news from across the space that’s worth a look. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Benny Sands, Director of Business Development – NFV Testing Strategy Lead at QualiTest

We’re off to a great start: both NFV and DevOps are in the title. If you are sensitive to marketing hype, you might be getting a little uncomfortable and we have not even gotten to the end of the first paragraph. I work in a testing company and have little patience for buzzwords or trends, but [Read more →]

Strategic moves by two incumbents, a vendor helping a client with speed needs of another sort, and some HVAC cloud support: [Read more →]

Today there was a regional fiber consolidation event out west. Integra has stepped off the sidelines and agreed to acquire opticAccess LLC. [Read more →]

Last week, Zayo’s Dan Caruso gave the keynote talk at the Cowen Communications Infrastructure Summit which I was fortunate to be able to attend out in Boulder, Colorado. One of his main themes was that the company’s earlier fiber-to-the-tower rollouts have given the company the reach to win a whole lot more enterprise and tower deals than it ever could have otherwise. [Read more →]

Since selling off its IP and Ethernet business and retreating to its voice tandem switching roots, Inteliquent has been relatively quiet.  But this morning that renewed focus on voice interconnection paid off with a big new contract with T-Mobile US.   [Read more →]

Dish’s relationship with regulators and the wireless operators whose club it would like to join has long been, shall we say, complicated. Today, their efforts took a hit from the FCC, which has now officially ruled against the company’s strategy for winning spectrum auctions. [Read more →]

For this set of Monday morning quick-takes, three from Equinix plus one from Cologix: [Read more →]

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

ITEM: IPTV and OTT video may produce a wealth of actionable data about consumer viewing habits, but most viewers don’t want that data shared with advertisers. [Read more →]

Back in the saddle after spending most of the week on the road, and it’s time to catch up on some metro news for Friday morning: [Read more →]

Three and a half months after announcing plans to acquire Fibertech Networks, Lightower followed through and closed the $1.9B deal.  The combined company has some 30K route miles of fiber and 15K on-net locations, 5K of which are towers. [Read more →]

After being spun off from Windstream in late April of this year, CS&L became the industry’s first publicly traded network REIT.  The markets haven’t been terribly kind since, but this morning we got our first look at the actual books as the company posted its results for the part of Q2 since becoming independent. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gary Gluzman, Executive Director of Product Development, MetTel, and is the second of two parts.

In Part 1 of the series, we discussed the emergence of Unified Communications (UC) and the overwhelming desire to always be one step closer to making conversations as close to in-person as possible, without actually being in-person.
This desire is what’s pushed [Read more →]

Since picking Infinera’s gear to power its network expansion last year, Windstream has been busy putting its plan into action. Today they gave an interesting update on the progress they’ve made and what’s on tap.  Meanwhile, Infinera got some good news from Europe. [Read more →]

I’m still on the road this morning, and will be tomorrow as well, so I’m still catching up a bit.  Here’s another roundup of some news from yesterday: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gary Gluzman, Executive Director of Product Development, MetTel and is the first of two parts.

In the days of the Pony Express, it was a feat to connect a letter with its recipient across the country in two weeks’ time, with the fastest travel of news traversing coasts to deliver the news of Lincoln’s election taking almost [Read more →]

I’m on the road today, so if anything interesting happens that I’m not talking about, that’s why. In the meantime, here’s some additional news from the start of the week that’s worth a look. [Read more →]