Telecom Ramblings

Global Cloud Xchange, which we knew as Reliance Globalcom until its rebranding earlier this year, is making good on the cloud part of its name. This morning they launched a new cloud service and ecosystem aimed at the global enterprise market. [Read more →]

Here are three other recent network news items worth checking out: [Read more →]

Two of the most dynamic insurgents in the bandwidth world have teamed up to start a new internet exchange down in southern Florida. The fiber builder and operator Zayo and the streaming giant Netflix, along with Host.net and CloudFlare, have launched FL-IX and are actively looking for more peers to sign on. [Read more →]

European fiber operator euNetworks says it has launched a new dc connect service in London. They’ve investing £8m in pre-deployed infrastructure in order to offer near-instant, scalable, fiber connectivity for enterprises. [Read more →]

Yesterday another chapter in the never-ending saga of who will buy T-Mobile came to a close. Iliad and its billionaire founder Xavier Niel has dropped its campaign to acquire a majority stake in the company. [Read more →]

Google has helped to forge another consortium submarine cable, but this time it’s heading into the southern hemisphere. The internet giant is teaming up with Brazil’s Algar Telecom, Uruguay’s Antel, and Angola’s Angola Cables to build a system between Brazil and the US. [Read more →]

The US is quiet so far today, but here’s a quick roundup of vendor news from around the world over the weekend: [Read more →]

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

We expect seamless connectivity with our portable mobile devices. We rarely give it a thought…unless the cute little icon on our smartphones’ menu bar drops from 4G to 3G, then we furrow our collective brow until it switches back. [Read more →]

Columbus Day weekend and another job listing on the Ramblings Jobs board to look at from Walker & Associates. [Read more →]

As we enjoy the turning of the leaves, at least where I am, here is a quick rundown of other news from this week that I didn’t get to: [Read more →]

Earnings season hasn’t quite started, but Juniper Networks has apparently decided to get the bad news out of the way early.  The company announced updated revenue and earnings guidance that the markets aren’t terribly pleased with.  Whether this is company-specific or part of a broader trend will have to wait for more data. [Read more →]

In a their proxy filing a couple weeks ago with the SEC, tw telecom gave the usual detailed look at the sale process. And indeed, there were others who kicked the tires and made bids, as noted by Channel Partners the other day. But I have to say, relative to the frequency of rumors it was actually a pretty small number. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of news from the Asia-Pacific theater from this week, with four from China and one from Japan: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some interesting data center news from this week. [Read more →]

In the rapidly changing world of network operator SDN, broad support across the vendors whose gear powers complex hetereogeneous networks is a key goal. Today, Cyan’s Blue Planet revealed an important step in that direction by adding support for two of the most important of those vendors: Cisco and Juniper. [Read more →]

Following quickly on the heels of last week’s buildout plans over in Iowa, Yesterday Unite Private Networks announced another expansion on the other side of Missouri River. The midwestern fiber builder and operator plans to build out an additional 600 route miles of fiber in the southeastern part of Nebraska. [Read more →]

It’s been almost three years now since Lumos Networks split off from nTelos, taking its fiber business on an independent path.  In the time since, they have been expanding their reach both into new geographies and to new opportunities within their existing footprint.  With us to offer an update on the company’s expansion projects and overall outlook is CEO Tim Biltz, who was also featured here in the summer of 2013. [Read more →]

Following quickly on its expansion to California, AMS-IX has moved into another new market. The Amsterdam-based internet exchange provider now has its first node in the Windy City of Chicago. [Read more →]

We had a bit of consolidation in the data center space this morning. The west coast’s Fortune Data Centers and Dallas’s Infomart have announced a merger. The combined company will be known as Infomart Data Centers, with some 2.2M square feet of data center and office space under its roofs. [Read more →]

Lots of network news this Monday morning, here’s a quick survey of some interesting items: [Read more →]

Zayo has officially kicked off its long awaited IPO, three months after filing its S-1 with the SEC over the summer.  The move will add another major pure fiber play to the markets.  It comes at a time when, a decade after the telecom nuclear winter, the public markets have finally started giving fiber networks some respect. [Read more →]

At the end of last week, euNetworks announced that it has refinanced and added some resources to its war chest. They’ve raised €70M in credit loan facilities from Barclays Bank PLC and RBC Capital Markets, with another €30M available should opportunity knock. [Read more →]

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

Alibaba conducted its IPO in the US a couple of weeks ago, and immediately became one of the most valuable companies in the US. Is Alibaba just an exception? Or can we expect more Chinese internet companies to expand to other western markets, [Read more →]