Telecom Ramblings

The process of European fiber consolidation took another step forward today with the announcement that Interoute has acquire Vtesse Group. The moves will give Interoute a substantially expanded presence in the UK both for connectivity and cloud services, whereas until now its pan-European network has been largely limited to London. [Read more →]

Unite Private Networks has big fiber plans for Iowa, according to an announcement today. The expansion will add some 700 route miles to the company’s footprint, complementing their deep presence in neighboring Nebraska.  [Read more →]

GTT has made another inorganic move with the acquisition of UNSi. It’s a $40M deal that will add $55M in annualized revenues, boosting GTT’s turnover to somewhere near $250M and taking them into some new lines of business. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of other news at the midpoint of the week: [Read more →]

Here’s the rundown on some data center news spanning three continents this Tuesday morning. [Read more →]

Continuing with the 100G rollout it started earlier this year, Windstream has moved onto phase 2. The capacity expansion will cover another 4,100 route miles by the end of the year, leveraging Infinera’s DTN-X. [Read more →]

The UK’s Six Degrees Group is expanding its fiber footprint in London, tapping Zayo’s footprint to add diversity. By the end of 2014, 6DG will have a new ring in the city built of Zayo’s dark fiber assets. Zayo’s London depth comes in part from the former AboveNet assets and in part from its more recent acqusition of Geo Networks this year.  [Read more →]

The APAC connectivity specialist Pacnet has built itself another CDN with some help from UK-based OnApp. They’ve deployed OnApp’s software solution to build out a self-owned and self-managed CDN across their own data centers and subsea links. Beyond their own footprint, OnApp’s federation then steps in.

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If Cisco’s move into the world of cloud computing back in March was a bit late entry, it won’t be lacking in resources. Six months later, the routing giant has doubled down on the ‘Intercloud’. Along with a $1B commitment, they announced 30 new high profile partners and launched a virtualization and orchestration platform aimed at service providers. [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

One apparent side effect of the growing ubiquity of LTE is that Wi-Fi is becoming less essential as an offload platform to cope with soaring data traffic. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by the MEF.  

The Internet is everywhere, and available on-demand – but it offers no service guarantees, and leaves security to the user. CE 2.0 delivers assured performance and security levels – but it can take weeks to establish a service. The world needs a THIRD Network. [Read more →]

This industry viewpoint was authored by Ajit Gupta, Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka

Reports that the FCC is considering new norms that would significantly affect net neutrality in the US have sparked a raging debate on how such regulations could ever even be put on the table at all. [Read more →]

TGIF.  Here’s a quick look at some more news from the metro this week: [Read more →]

Over in Europe, Colt finished up the first of several network expansion projects this week.  They’ve unveiled a second high capacity route between London and Dublin.   [Read more →]

The Metro Ethernet Forum has already been behind two of the industry’s cooperative efforts to redesign how internet infrastructure works in the past 13 years of work on Ethernet. But if you thought the next one would simply be called Carrier Ethernet 3.0, you were probably thinking too small. Yesterday the MEF launched its Third Network vision, which will take them deep into the Network-as-a-Service world. [Read more →]

Private equity has found another network operator to bring into the fold this week. Tiger Infrastructure Partners is acquiring a majority interest in Paramus, NJ-based Hudson Fiber Network. [Read more →]

Alcatel-Lucent and the SEA-ME-WE-5 consortium are at long last ready to move beyond talk and into action.  The Franco-American vendor has begun construction on its part of the cable system, which will supplant SEA-ME-WE-4’s as the latest cable on this increasingly important submarine route. [Read more →]

Following quickly on the heels of its move out in San Diego, tw telecom’s national metro markets expansion moved back to the East Coast.  With the Level 3 deal still pending, they have been pushing steadily ahead with the expansion they announced last November.  Today the market is the greater New York City metro area, which may be the biggest metro market in the country but has never been one of tw telecom’s bigger strongholds. [Read more →]

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 →]

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

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

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 →]

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