Here’s a quick rundown on some other news from the metro and regional fiber sector: [Read more →]
Telx Expands Footprint at 60 Hudson By 71%
September 24th, 2013
If the imminent invasion of European-style internet exchanges has Telx worried, they aren’t showing it. Today the interconnection specialist unveiled the addition of another 69,000 gross square feet at 60 Hudson, one of the internet’s biggest hubs. [Read more →]
Tech Valley Reborn As FirstLight, Aims At Ethernet Backhaul
September 24th, 2013
The metro and regional fiber business has a new name to remember, as Tech Valley Communications has rebranded itself as FirstLight Fiber. Meanwhile, they also gained certification with a major wireless operator for their Ethernet backhaul solutions. [Read more →]
Rogers Buys Pivot, Granite to Boost Data Center Footprint
September 24th, 2013
Yesterday Rogers Business Solutions waded deeper into the cloud infrastructure market with some M&A. Rogers is purchasing two data center assets: Pivot Data Centers and Granite Networks. They’ll be folding both into their Blackiron Data division, built off the purchase of the Blackiron business from Primus earlier this year. [Read more →]
Hawaiki Signs Up Subcom to Take On South Pacific
September 24th, 2013
While the Pacific Fibre effort may have collapsed, the dream of more and bigger pipes hooking up New Zealand with the US west coast clearly hasn’t. According to Capacity Magazine, TE Subcom has now signed on to help build the Hawaiki Cable system, an effort that hopes to succeed by offering solutions to more than one problem. [Read more →]
Steady Growth for Zayo to Close Fiscal 2013
September 23rd, 2013
While they seem to have picked a rather inauspicious year to move to the now very wet city of Boulder, Zayo has finally turned in another quarter of steady growth. EBITDA margins were down sequentially, but this was due to a one time hit from lease termination charges that derive from all the integration work. Here’s a quick summary of Zayo’s numbers for their Fiscal Q4: [Read more →]
GTS Calls Off Auction, European Buyers Still Cautious
September 23rd, 2013
According to various reports, one of the bigger European competitive fiber assets known to be for sale no longer is. GTS Central Europe has taken itself off the table, and its private equity backers are now looking at making some balance sheet moves instead. But that’s clearly just an interim step. [Read more →]
Telecom on verge of a revolution
September 23rd, 2013
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
Operators worldwide are on the verge of a radical transformation and strategic shift in direction, according to research from Informa Telecoms and Media. [Read more →]
Euro Bytes: Verne Global, Zayo, Interoute, NTT
September 20th, 2013
Here’s a quick Friday look at some news from the European markets: [Read more →]
Blue Jeans Raises $50M, Level 3 Signs On
September 19th, 2013
The videoconferencing business’s colorful upstart now has a bigger war chest. Yesterday Blue Jeans Network raised another $50M in funding in a round led by Battery Ventures. They will be using the funds to take aim at the likes of Polycom and Cisco. [Read more →]
Zayo Adds Southeastern Fiber Breadth
September 19th, 2013
Announcing yet another expansion of its network footprint, Zayo has expanded with new longhaul routes in the southeastern USA. They’ve added long-haul fiber that will bring the markets of Raleigh NC, Richmond VA, Tampa FL, and Orlando FL on-net, and add diverse connectivity down to Miami – a market they got a toe in from the AboveNet deal. [Read more →]
DE-CIX Crosses the Atlantic Too
September 18th, 2013
We have another of Europe’s independent internet exchange operators that is coming to America. Frankfurt-based DE-CIX announced this morning that it will be establishing internet exchanges in markets around the USA, starting with the New York metro area. [Read more →]
Windstream Lands Federal VA Contract
September 18th, 2013
Another federal network infrastructure deal was announced yesterday, as Windstream (NYSE:WIN, news, filings) took home a contract with the US Department of Veterans Affairs. They’ll be providing voice, data, and internet services for the agency’s Region 4, which overseas some 300 facilities of various types across 11 states in the Northeast. [Read more →]
Fibertech Deploys 100G Ethernet In the Metro
September 18th, 2013
The Rochester-based fiber builder and operator Fibertech has brought in bigger pipes for enterprises across their footprint. They’re using Ciena’s switches and packet-optical technology in a deployment of 100G Ethernet services in the metro. [Read more →]
Datacenter Bytes: CyrusOne, Compass, ADVA, Interxion
September 17th, 2013
Here’s a quick roundup of news items from the data center world so far this week: [Read more →]
AMS-IX Takes On Kenya
September 17th, 2013
The European-style internet exchange model is really starting to send out runners. Today AMS-IX unveiled plans to open a new peering exchange, this time in East Africa — specifically in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya. [Read more →]
Cologix Buys JMMR, Enters Florida Meet-Me Market
September 16th, 2013
We have a bit of infrastructure M&A this morning, of the carrier-neutral interconnectivity variety rather than fiber though. Cologix has bought its way into another new market with the purchase of the Jacksonville, Florida-based JAX Meet Me Room. [Read more →]
Weekend Roundup: Lightpath, Fairpoint, CenturyLink, Tata, Interoute
September 16th, 2013
As we kick off the week let’s quickly finish off some news from last week that I didn’t get to: [Read more →]
Pundits question EC telecom proposals
September 16th, 2013
This article was authored by Michael J Carroll, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
Analysts predict Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange will cry foul at European Commission (EC) proposals to start abolishing roaming rates from 2014. [Read more →]
The Business Benefits of Cloud Based Telephony
September 13th, 2013
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by David Bell, Digital Marketing Executive at Tripudio Telecom. The Tripudio team will be at the Call Centre and Customer Management Expo on the 2nd and 3rd October 2013 at the London Olympia Exhibition Centre.
It would appear that ‘cloud’ seems to be the answer to everyone’s problems these days. ‘Cloud computing’, ‘cloud networking’ and ‘cloud based hosting’ are common phrases amongst most [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: Wave Buys Spectrum, CondoInternet
September 13th, 2013
Up in the Pacific Northwest there was a bit of fiber consolidation yesterday. Wave Division Holdings has acquired Spectrum Networks and its subsidiary CondoInternet, adding yet more depth to their network in and around Seattle. [Read more →]
Ericsson Helps Rostelecom Roll Its Own CDN
September 12th, 2013
The fault line between the content delivery network and carrier worlds has been rather quiet lately, but today we saw a substantial new buildout by a network operator. Ericsson says it has deployed a CDN for Rostelecom, the largest operator in Russia. [Read more →]
Colo Roundup: FORTRUST, CyrusOne, DuPont Fabros, TELEHOUSE
September 12th, 2013
Time for a quick roundup of news from the colocation sector: [Read more →]