Telecom Ramblings

After regulators threw cold water on the very idea of a Sprint/T-Mobile US merger, Softbank’s chairman has apparently called in a big gun to make the case more forcefully — himself. And he’s not mincing words, promising Charlie Rose that he would make war against the AT&T and Verizon near-duopoly if allowed to make the deal he clearly wants to make. [Read more →]

Windstream is putting Infinera’s DTN-X and its 500G super-channels to work on a new long-haul backbone deployment. The expanded intercity capacity will help Windstream keep pace with growth in mobile data, cloud services, and of course all that video traffic hitting broadband networks. [Read more →]

It was pretty clear that Netflix’s traffic agreement with Comcast wasn’t going to be its last deal with the last mile. But the next provider it seems to have done a deal with isn’t one of the usual suspects. According to reports out of Norway, Netflix has done some sort of deal with Telenor to gain better service. [Read more →]

Plans for the SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable system have moved another step forward, with two companies contracted to do the heavy lifting. The consortium has tapped the Franco-American giant Alcatel-Lucent and its Japanese cousin NEC to build the system, with each taking responsibility for different segments. [Read more →]

Bank Street attended Capacity Media’s 13^th annual Metro Connect USA conference in Miami, FL where its co-founder and senior managing director James Henry participated in a panel entitled Consolidation and M&A: Executive Evaluation.  The following were among the key topics discussed and important findings that the firm took away from the panel:

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Last year was a good one for Ciena, and they kicked off their fiscal 2014 with a strong first quarter.  Analysts were a bit miffed by guidance, but it looks overblown to me.  Here are their numbers in some context:  [Read more →]

I’ll be back from my trip to Metro Connect in Miami and Telecom Exchange West after the weekend. In the meantime, here are three metro fiber items from this week and two that I missed earlier that are worth a look: [Read more →]

This morning, Zayo announced the acquisition of CoreXchange. CoreXchange operates two data centers, one at 8600 Harry Hines Blvd which is new for Zayo, and the other at the Dallas Infomart at 1950 N. Stemmons Freeway where Zayo already has space. In all, the deal will give Zayo some 34,000 square feet of interconnection-focused colocation space in Dallas. [Read more →]

The industry veteran Hunter Newby and the real estate development firm Amerimar are at it again, announcing the purchase of another substantial data center property this morning.  The two, along with Abrams Capital, have purchased 401 North Broad Street in Philadelphia from The Stillman Group. [Read more →]

I’m still on the road, and will be hosting the M&A CEO roundtable at Telecom Exchange West today.  In the meantime, here’s a quick roundup of news from the international front this week:

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This article was authored by Jouko Ahvenainen, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Mobile World Congress 2014 offered nothing truly surprising. Smartphone vendors unveiled new improved models, but no game changers. On the network side, data only is coming and vendors showcased equipment to transfer more data. Big data was discussed, but can carriers really [Read more →]

For the better part of a decade now, the biggest stories in the US fiber business have been about consolidation. What with Level 3’s backbone and metro moves, Zayo’s epic roll-up, Lightower’s consolidation of the northeast, Birch’s twenty plus little CLEC deals, cable’s recent fiber forays, and all the rest — there just aren’t that many targets left out there that haven’t already [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at this week’s news from the colo and cloud side of things: [Read more →]

Ok the dust has settled a bit since last week’s drama, where it was revealed that Netflix and Comcast came to terms on an interconnection deal where Netflix would pay for traffic delivered directly to the cable MSO’s customers, bypassing transit backbones like that of Cogent.  This site’s readers have a uniquely informed viewpoint on this, so let’s find out what everyone is thinking: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at three vendor announcements from this week: [Read more →]

Teliasonera International Carrier announced today another expansion of its global network. They’re expanding further in the Middle East with a new PoP in Qatar, partnering with Ooredoo. [Read more →]

In the telecom world, there are service providers and there are vendors, and rarely do they share the same DNA. Today though the global managed service provider Epsilon launched a subsidiary named Cataleya that does just that. [Read more →]

Last week I attended Metro Connect down in Miami, which I found to be every bit as interesting as it seemed from afar in the past. The biggest thing I took home (or will have when I get there) came from the conference’s new arrivals, namely the cable MSOs. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Joseph Waring, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Mobile money has come a long way in a few years. But with each passing month, the ecosystem has only become more complex, with new alliances, partnerships and solutions rolled out almost weekly. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of news from the colo/cloud sector from this week: [Read more →]

With us today to offer his perspective on the networking industry and leadership is Francois Locoh-Donou. Francois has had an interesting journey over the years, starting in the West African country of Togo, moving on to high school and university in France, and arriving at Ciena as a systems engineer in the USA as the dot com boom started to really take off. He has held various executive positions at Ciena over the years, and is currently the SVP of Ciena’s Global Products Group where he leads their R&D and product development. [Read more →]

I was on the road today, so here’s a quick look at network news I managed to scan while using various airport wifi.  Four from the US metro market and one from rather further afield. [Read more →]

Software-defined networking has been working its way out of the data centers where it was born and into the wide-area network. But much of what we read about that is hard to pin down when it comes to specifics. So I have been looking for people who are putting theory into practice. With us today to share his own experience and vision implementing SDN all the way out at the network edge is Adam Dunstan, President and CEO of Active Broadband Networks. [Read more →]