Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

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

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 →]

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

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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

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 →]

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

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

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 →]