Telecom Ramblings

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

I was talking with my friend who is building a startup to help employers and employees to find one other in Germany. It is, for example, for a bus driver, car mechanic or nurse.  Is it anything new, there are thousands of recruiting services on the internet and everyone has a LinkedIn profile? [Read more →]

Here are a few interesting stories this week from the world of metro fiber: [Read more →]

The word this morning is that Finland-based Nokia is close to a blockbuster deal to buy the Franco-American giant Alcatel-Lucent. It’s not just an idle rumor, either, as the two companies have confirmed they are in advanced talks, and a deal would likely tip the scales at about $13B.  [Read more →]

There will probably soon be another bit of data to collect from Zayo’s extensive earnings release data, as the company has built a new dedicated team. They’re aiming at the live video business, taking broadcasts from sports venues and transporting them across fiber to studios and the like for processing. [Read more →]

Cyan kicked off the week with an interesting national/regional set of wins. They’ve been picked by the wholesale carrier group INDATEL for a 100G packet-optical deployment augmented by the company’s Blue Planet SDN software. [Read more →]

With its annual Superbowl services complete, Level 3’s Vyvx network finished off a bit of organic expansion this week. Level 3 has built fiber into an additional 29 professional sports venues across the USA. [Read more →]

Since closing its purchase of MegaPath’s wholesale division at the start of 2015, Global Capacity has been busy integrating its new network and central office reach with the rest of its offerings. This morning, they unveiled one of the most visible pieces of that project, taking their MPLS VPN and extending it across the combined One Marketplace footprint. [Read more →]

The hardest places to get fiber have always been the less populated areas of the country out in the Rocky Mountains and the High Plains.  Most providers shy away from such markets, but there are a few that specialize in taking on the harder projects.  Mammoth Networks, a wholesale subsidiary of Wyoming regional fiber builder Visionary Communications, has spent the last decade doing precisely that.  With us today to talk about Mammoth’s approach to hooking up the markets of the Mountain West as well as other topics like the role of municipal fiber is CEO Brian Worthen.  [Read more →]

Two new job listings this past week on the Ramblings Jobs board to go with three already on the books. I’m currently upgrading the jobs board with a few new features, a process which has led to a few bugs.  All should be in good shape now though! [Read more →]

For your Friday news catchup, here are five quick takes on news from the metro and regional fiber worlds: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dan Joe Barry, VP Positioning and Chief Evangelist, Napatech

The shared sentiment among many recent IT predictions is a recognition of the astronomical quantities of data being produced by cloud, mobile, Big Data and social technologies – the “third platform,” next-generation IT software foundation defined by IDC. As analysts monitor [Read more →]

Just a few years back, it would often be said that building new metro fiber made sense but the case for new intercity longhaul builds was not there. By now though, that is demonstrably no longer true. In its third new longhaul build anouncement in the last five months, Zayo says it is going to build a new route between Dallas and Phoenix. [Read more →]

And now for a change of pace. Today, two representatives of the telecom and internet infrastructure sector are taking on a bit of a different challenge. Gary Seery, IT Director at Hibernia Networks, and David Van Der Wetering, an Account Manager at Ciena, are running in this year’s North Pole Marathon — and yes that means exactly what it says. Why would anybody spend April revisiting winter for a nice 26.2 mile run on a polar ice cap? Here’s Gary in a few of his own words: [Read more →]

Time for a roundup of network news from this week: [Read more →]

Until now, Infinera’s road has been an organic one. But that is coming to a close with plans announced today to acquire the Swedish packet-optical vendor Transmode for about $350M.  [Read more →]

DE-CIX has launched another internet exchange, its second of the Spring already. The new exchange will be housed in Interxion’s data center in the southern French city of Marseille.  [Read more →]

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

China’s planned state-owned telecom infrastructure sharing company is reportedly set to assume ownership of nearly 1 million telecom towers. [Read more →]

The Open-IX initiative continues to gain momentum, and this week certified two more exchanges — one down in the southeast, and the other across the Atlantic. [Read more →]

The interconnection business has been having a very dynamic year, and this morning we have a bit of inorganic activity. The software defined interconnection specialist IIX has announced the purchase of IX Reach, expanding its global interconnection footprint to some 150 PoPs worldwide.  [Read more →]

Music City has a carrier neutral, public, internet peering exchange as of today. 365 Data Centers, DevDigital, and Peace Communications have teamed up to launch the Nashville Internet Exchange, or NashIX. [Read more →]

Welcome back to the stragglers still returning from Easter weekend! Here’s a quick rundown on some of the news that has come out to start the week: [Read more →]

New York City has long been one of the most complex and interesting fiber markets in the world.  This past winter we saw some new players enter the market, reversing a long trend of consolidation.  One of those players is Axiom Fiber Networks which has spent the last few months building a green field dark fiber network in Manhattan.  With us today is Axiom’s CEO, Felipe J. Alvarez, to tell us what the company is up to and where it is going.   [Read more →]

According to the yearly statflash by Vertical Systems Group, metro fiber passed the 40% threshold this year. Fiber penetration into commercial buildings with 20+ employees has now reached 42.5%, moving up strongly from 39.3% last year. Five years ago, the figure stood at [Read more →]