Telecom Ramblings

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

Should Airbnb’s apartment rental business be treated like a hotel business with licenses and taxes? Is Uber the employer or a technology service for drivers? Has Uber conducted illegal taxi business in France when its directors were arrested? Can people mutually make business by using digital currencies without authorities’ control? [Read more →]

Another summer job listing landed on the Ramblings Jobs board this past week, and again it is up in the Northeast. [Read more →]

According to an article on LiveMint, Tata Communications is shopping its data center assets.  They are said to be talkign with both private equity and strategic buyers to sell a 74% stake in the company’s data center subsidiary, raising something in the neighborhood of $300M.   [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Priya Natarajan, Senior Director of Software Marketing, Ciena

Forecasting is inherently a challenge, but it’s absolutely critical in today’s business environment. For example, complicated sales funnels can shroud the view of how much revenue an organization will have to work with in the future, making sales forecasting tools like those available through Salesforce not only useful, but essential. [Read more →]

Q2 earnings season is now upon us, and yesterday afternoon the DWDM specialist Infinera helped kick things off for the vendors. Revenues and non-GAAP earnings per share of $207.3M and $0.18 were both stronger than anticipated, as were Q3 projections of $210-220M and $0.17, so it’s no surprise the markets have responded with a 10+% bump to the company’s stock price. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of news from the metro this week: [Read more →]

In its second fiber-to-the-tower-powered expansion in two weeks, Zayo announced this morning a significant expansion of its outpost in Nashville, Tennessee.  Last week Zayo revealed a similar metro expansion in and around Seattle, after focusing for a few quarters on new intercity dark fiber buildouts.   [Read more →]

As its efforts in New York City continue to gain traction, DE-CIX is apparently ready to take on another US market.  Today they announced plans to open a new internet exchange in Dallas, Texas, citing the need for an open, neutral peering platform in the region. [Read more →]

Lots of interesting news items from the data center this week, from colo up to the cloud: [Read more →]

After more than a year of regulatory wrangling, it looks like AT&T might actually win a mega-merger round. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has reportedly decided to back the deal. The full commission still has to officially vote, but with Wheeler’s support that’s just a formality. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some interesting news on other continents so far this week: [Read more →]

PEG Bandwidth has found an inorganic way to grow its network in the MidAtlantic. This morning they announced an asset acquisition, purchasing a 48-mile fiber network from W.L. Gore & Associates.  Gore & Associates, among other things, is the company that makes GORE-TEX fabric and is the source of wealth for Delaware’s current richest resident, Bob Gore. [Read more →]

This morning EdgeConneX brought a bit more infrastructure out to the edge of the network up in Minnesota.  They announced a partnership with the Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange under which they’ll soon have a MICE node in their facility. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Stefan Hammond, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

While everyone loves to talk about 5G – and the core infrastructure for this new paradigm, now under assembly – the building blocks of the IoT continue to multiply. [Read more →]

Another summer job listing landed on the Ramblings Jobs board up in the Northeast. [Read more →]

Zayo announced today that will be taking over the network oversight and support for Colorado’s EAGLE-Net Alliance. EAGLE-Net is a quasi-governmental organization aimed at getting fiber to the harder to reach parts of Colorado — which pretty much means anywhere but Denver and Colorado Springs. [Read more →]

This week, Charter Communications got a key approval for its proposed acquisition of TW Cable. No, the FCC and DOJ aren’t done yet — they’re just getting started.  But Netflix has finished up its own review and is throwing it support behind the deal. It’s not altruism though, but rather the settlement-free peering that Netflix will receive from the combined company through at least 2018. [Read more →]

TGIF, with some nice weather ahead for the weekend I hope.  Here’s a quick rundown of some other news from this week that needs mentioning: [Read more →]

Global cable mergers continue to be one of 2015 stories, and today we saw another one over in Europe. Germany’s Tele Columbus has agreed to buy rival PrimaCom for $777M or so in cash. [Read more →]

A bunch of news items this week from the metro to look at: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news items over in Europe this week that are worth a look: [Read more →]

Contributed by Rajive Keshup, ATLANTIC-ACM

Framing the situation

Competition amongst communications solutions providers (CSPs) continues to heat up as enterprises and individuals become increasingly dependent upon [Read more →]

With Zayo busy in Seattle, Level 3 said this morning that it has finished up a network expansion a few hundred miles to the east. The project added a new loop in the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene metro areas, bringing their infrastructure in the metro area to 276 on-net buildings and 300 metro route miles in all. [Read more →]