The metro fiber builder and operator FiberLight has secured some new long term financing. The move will give the company the resources with which to continue its building campaign, and may quiet a few of the more persistent consolidation rumors out there – or perhaps start a few new ones. [Read more →]
Thursday Roundup: Digital Realty, Savvis, Global Capacity, Savvis
October 3rd, 2013
Here’s a quick look at some of the news from the industry this week: [Read more →]
Oakland A’s Shift Stadium to Comcast’s Metro Ethernet
October 3rd, 2013
Comcast Business picked up another sporting venue contract for its metro Ethernet business. The Oakland Athetics have selected the cable MSO’s Business Ethernet services to bring high speed internet to the O.co Coliseum for the first time. [Read more →]
Birch Refinances, as Lightyear Settles FCC Case
October 3rd, 2013
As one of the busiest consolidators in the industry, Birch Communications has spent its share of time with the bankers. Yesterday they took the wraps off a new refinancing that will pad their cash balance by $25M. [Read more →]
NTT Expands Into Indonesia
October 2nd, 2013
The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT is expanding its IP network once again. They’ve added two new points of presence in Jakarta, giving them a foothold in Indonesia. [Read more →]
Russia Gets Some 100G Action
October 2nd, 2013
Two operators in Russia have announced 100G deployments so far this week, one in the longhaul and the other in the metro. [Read more →]
Ciena Adds Ethernet Muscle, Ritter Signs On
October 1st, 2013
Seeking to enable big bandwidth at the edges of the network, Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN, news, filings) added two new boxes to their Ethernet portfolio this morning. Ciena has been having a big year on the growth front, and further traction for its Ethernet portfolio could help them keep up the momentum. [Read more →]
Zayo Launches zTech
October 1st, 2013
Zayo added another aspect to its bandwidth business with the launch of a professional services product suite. Their new zTech offerings will take all that network build and operations expertise and give it another outlet. [Read more →]
AT&T Prepares to Defend Austin, CenturyLink Picks Calix
October 1st, 2013
The response to Google’s Kansas City gambit is gaining steam, as both AT&T and CenturyLink are making strides toward actual 1Gbps FTTH offerings, each in a single market of course. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: EdgeCast, BICS, CWC
October 1st, 2013
Here’s a quick look at some news from around the world: [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: US Private Equity Buys e|net
October 1st, 2013
In some news that I didn’t initially see and which doesn’t seem to have gotten much press, several investors from the Warren Buffett circle have bought a fiber network operator and builder. Not in the USA, but over in Ireland. [Read more →]
tw telecom’s Ethernet Helps Pacnet Access the USA
September 30th, 2013
Pacnet is stretching its network reach into the US enterprise market with a little help from tw telecom. It’s the first E-Access foray in tho the USA for Pacnet, which has been recreating itself since bringing in former XO chief Carl Grivner as its CEO. [Read more →]
Vodafone, Zain, du, Zajil Plan Terrestrial Link From Gulf to Europe
September 30th, 2013
With key parts of the Middle East continue to roil with civil strife, many terrestrial fiber alternatives to connect the region to Europe have been on the back burner. Nevertheless, four telecommunications companies from the Persian Gulf are planning another substantial attempt. [Read more →]
Metro Roundup: US Signal, Neo, UNSi, Integra, tw telecom
September 30th, 2013
Not much news out there yet to kick off the week, but fortunately last week there were a bunch of metro fiber items I didn’t get to: [Read more →]
Cisco facing an “existential threat”
September 30th, 2013
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
The rise of SDN is posing an “existential threat” to networking market leader Cisco, which is bound to put pressure on the vendor’s market share and revenue margins, CM Research warns. [Read more →]
Ramblings Jobs: Logix Communications
September 29th, 2013
Over on the Ramblings Jobs Board we have a new job listing from Logix down in Texas. [Read more →]
Int’l Roundup: GTS, GTT, NCP, Tata
September 27th, 2013
To finish off the week, here’s a quick look at some news that’s come in from overseas: [Read more →]
XL Axiata Follows Through, Will Buy Axis Telecom
September 27th, 2013
In a southeast Asian M&A that was rumored to be in the cards as far back as May, Malaysian-based XL Axiata has announced an agreement to buy Axis Telecom. Axiata’s Indonesia subsidiary will be buying a 95% stake in the Indonesian service provider from Saudi Telecom Company and Teleglobal Investments. [Read more →]
RingCentral Lines Up Its IPO
September 27th, 2013
Today, assuming nothing goes awry, we will get a new public cloud communications company to keep track of. RingCentral’s initial public offering is all set, and yesterday they announced the initial pricing to be $13.00 per share. [Read more →]
Level 3 Snags Buccaneers Contract, Seeks Refinancing
September 26th, 2013
Two bits of news for Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) this week: a high profile contract in the sports vertical and yet another big refinancing. [Read more →]
Vendor Roundup: ADVA, BTI, Alcatel-Lucent, Overture, Ericsson
September 26th, 2013
There’s been a series of interesting items from vendors this week, here’s a set of quick-takes to play some catch-up: [Read more →]
Europe’s Telecom Buffet Is Open, and AT&T Just Might Be Hungry
September 25th, 2013
Or is that Hungary? Nope that pun won’t work yet, hungry will have to do. So now that Verizon and Vodafone finally made the least secret deal of the decade happen, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has now publicly alluded to M&A opportunities in Europe. So who might they buy? [Read more →]
Metro Bytes: Alpheus, Mid-Atlantic, DukeNet, Global Capacity, Epsilon
September 25th, 2013
Here’s a quick rundown on some other news from the metro and regional fiber sector: [Read more →]