Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

Zayo’s organic buildout engine had been somewhat quiet for a spell, so this morning’s news of a new expansion project in the Pacific Northwest was a welcome one. Zayo says it has won a new fiber-to-the-tower deal with a major wireless carrier that will see more than 500 towers on-net, of which 350 will be in Greater Seattle. [Read more →]

The Australian software-based interconnection specialist Megaport has revealed plans to expand, taking aim at the largest US markets. So they’ll be moving from down under to go up over, right? Ok, weak wordplay… I’m an engineer, what did you expect? [Read more →]

There really was some fire underneath the smoke this time. This morning, Digital Realty Trust announced a definitive agreement to purchase Telx for $1.886B.  The deal takes Digital Realty deeper into the world of interconnection than it has previously delved, and further from its real estate roots. [Read more →]

Those who have been fighting to build a new submarine cable between New Zealand and the west coast of the US, as well as islands along the way, have taken another two steps forward toward that goal. One is financial, the other logistical. [Read more →]

On Friday, the FCC proposed yet more new rules for the telecommunications industry, looking to keep the transition from copper to fiber from becoming a cudgel wielded by incumbents against competitive operators. Switching off legacy copper systems which regulators required to be available on a wholesale basis in favor of fiber systems they have not effectively kicks providers without the reach out of the market. [Read more →]

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

We have seen dozens of MVNOs come and disappear. There are a few that have survived with a strong brand (e.g. Virgin) or niche services like international calls (e.g. Lebara). Now, we see a newcomer from [Read more →]