365 Data Centers Takes On Cloud Storage

September 23rd, 2014
 

This has been a big year for 365 Data Centers. In April they rebranded from the former 365Main moniker and promised to take on the SMB market, and just last week they raised some new capital for expansion.  They’re not wasting any time, and have now used some of that capital to move into the cloud with their first cloud services offering: storage. [Read more →]

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Data Bytes: Global Capacity, tw telecom, TWC, Equinix, Orange Business

September 23rd, 2014
 

Here’s a quick rundown of recent data news: [Read more →]

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Vendor Roundup: Ericsson, Juniper, Cisco

September 22nd, 2014
 

Monday started off with some news from the big vendors: [Read more →]

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Huawei, China Telecom test NFV-based vCPE

September 22nd, 2014
 

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

Huawei and China Telecom have completed the first live network tests for NFV-based virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE). [Read more →]

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Ramblings Jobs: Logix

September 21st, 2014
 

Three new job listings landed on the Ramblings Jobs board this week from Logix Communications. [Read more →]

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Friday Bytes: Colt, Viawest, CoreSite, Mitel

September 19th, 2014
 

TGIF, here’s a quick look at some other news this week from the worlds of cloud and colo: [Read more →]

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In Brazil, Telefonica Wins the Auction For GVT

September 19th, 2014
 

Vivendi has made its choice, and the auction for Global Village Telecom has gone to Telefonica. Both Telefonica and Telecom Italia had been bidding for the Brazilian telecommunications company back in August, seeking to combine the fixed line operator’s assets with their mobile businesses in the country. [Read more →]

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UPN Expands to Council Bluffs, Wilcon Builds Out to El Segundo

September 18th, 2014
 

There are two other organic metro fiber expansion projects out there this week worth a quick look: [Read more →]

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Is It Really Time For Level 3 and Sprint?

September 18th, 2014
 

There’s an article over at Investors Business Daily suggesting that Sprint may sell its wireline network business at last, and that Level 3 would be the most likely buyer. It’s not a new idea of course, but in this iteration is being suggested by Oppenheimer as a likely move. Is it finally time? [Read more →]

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Lightower Adds Philadelphia Depth

September 18th, 2014
 

Yesterday the northeastern fiber operator Lightower announced plans to expand their network in the city of brotherly love and the fictional home of Rocky Balboa.  Yep, Philadelphia is getting some more new fiber, specifically downtown in the area surrounding Broad St., Market St., JFK Blvd. and Chestnut Ave. This makes two providers that are making moves in Philly, as tw telecom entered the market for the first time just last month.   [Read more →]

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The Intercloud Will Absorb the Metacloud

September 17th, 2014
 

Rackspace may be distancing itself from consolidation in the cloud space, but Cisco managed to find a target to beef up its own efforts.  The router giant entered the space back in March with its Intercloud strategy, and today announced its intention to purchase Metacloud. [Read more →]

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Wednesday Bytes: Zayo, tw telecom, Viawest, Highwinds, CENX

September 17th, 2014
 

Here’s a quick look at some interesting news items from this week: [Read more →]

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Rackspace Jumps Off the Table

September 17th, 2014
 

One of the bits of summer speculation that seemed destined to happen isn’t going to, at least for now. Rackspace yesterday called off its review of strategic alternatives, named Taylor Rhodes as its CEO, and plotted an independent course. [Read more →]

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$40M For Fastly

September 16th, 2014
 

Some may see the content delivery world as commoditized, but then again some just see further opportunity. The upstart CDN Fastly is one of the latter, and today they announced a big new funding round of venture capital. [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: Jay Lawrence of NexxCom Wireless

September 16th, 2014
 

For the past half-decade or so, low latency connectivity has been a big focus of the key financial vertical, both through fiber and the air.  Serving bandwidth to the high frequency trading segment has been as rapidly evolving an environment as they come, and NexxCom Wireless has been evolving right along with it.  With us today to tell us where NexxCom’s wireless links will speed off to next is Jay Lawrence, Chief Executive Officer of the company since 2012. [Read more →]

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Some Spanish Jazz for Orange?

September 15th, 2014
 

According to Reuters, France’s incumbent telecommunications giant may be about to make an M&A move to its south. Orange is said to be readying a purchase of Spain’s alternative fixed line operator Jazztel in an effort to boost its prospects there, a move that analysts have expected for a while. [Read more →]

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Monday Bytes: EarthLink, Zayo, Limelight, Calix

September 15th, 2014
 

Not a lot of big news this Monday morning, but some smaller items are worth noting: [Read more →]

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As Netflix Takes On France, No Public Peering Fights Yet?

September 15th, 2014
 

This morning, Netflix is taking its OTT video into perhaps the most hostile territory yet: France. But what we aren’t yet seeing is any of the public spats about interconnection that have marked the content/eyeball divide in the US for much of this year. [Read more →]

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Ramblings Jobs: Tower Cloud

September 14th, 2014
 

After a slow Labor Day stretch, we have a new job listing on the Ramblings Jobs board this weekend. [Read more →]

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Vendor Roundup: Ericsson, Cyan, Infinera, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent

September 12th, 2014
 

For this fall Friday let’s see what’s going on with the vendors: [Read more →]

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Wi-Fi Calling? It’s About Time

September 11th, 2014
 

So T-Mobile’s latest campaign is to take better advantage of WiFi, quickly hopping on the bandwagon with the new iPhone’s capabilities in the unapologetically aggressive, quick-footed manner that T-Mobile has specialized in since John Legere took over. All I can say is that it’s about time somebody did. [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Tower Cloud, Level 3, FirstLight, US Signal

September 11th, 2014
 

Here are a few quick-takes on news from the metro and regional fiber space: [Read more →]

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The NBA Taps Zayo’s Fiber

September 10th, 2014
 

Zayo picked up a high profile video transport contract today in the sports vertical. They are teaming up with the National Basketball Association for the transport of live broadcast and other video feeds for all NBA games in the upcoming 2014-2015 season. [Read more →]

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