Integra, iFiber Select Ciena for 100G

April 11th, 2013
 

After a few years of slow uptake, 100G is starting to truly hit its stride across all types of networks around the world.  Yesterday Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN, news, filings) won two contracts for its coherent technology, one on the West Coast and the Rockies and the other in the MidWest. [Read more →]

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Deutsche Telekom Yields Some Last Minute Ground

April 11th, 2013
 

As the shareholder vote at MetroPCS loomed this Friday, Deutsche Telekom faced the possibility that it’s proposed merger with T-Mobile USA might not carry the day. Speculation had been rising for weeks that they would blink, and in fact that’s exactly what they have now done – to an extent. [Read more →]

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Data Bytes: XO, Cologix, Global Capacity, Cbeyond, UNSi

April 10th, 2013
 

Time for a quick roundup of US data services news, with items from XO, Cologix, Global Capacity, Cbeyond, and UNSi: [Read more →]

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DE-CIX Boosts Ethernet Interconnection With Apollon Launch

April 10th, 2013
 

The internet exchange DE-CIX is getting a big new Ethernet platform. Traffic growth at Europe’s internet exchanges has not tapered off, and DE-CIX is looking at a whole lot of data traffic to get ready for over the next few years. To meet those needs, they’re putting in place a next generation Ethernet interconnection platform called Apollon. [Read more →]

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AT&T Challenges Google to a Hand of Texas Fiber’em

April 10th, 2013
 

Yesterday, I ended my look at Google Fiber’s plans for Austin with the question of how the incumbents might respond to this evolution beyond the demo. Apparently, AT&T (NYSE:T, news, filings) was way ahead of me, because they stepped up and unveiled their own Gigabit fiber buildout plan for Austin. This sets up quite an interesting dynamic, not so different from that popular poker variant, Texas Hold’em. [Read more →]

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Hurricane Electric Taps Zayo for 100G Backbone

April 9th, 2013
 

Hurricane Electric has decided to jump on the 100G bandwagon, and they’re going to get the wavelengths for it from Zayo.  The global IP backbone and IPv6 trend-setter has purchased 100G waves along Zayo’s recently upgraded routes, which include both New York to Washington DC and Chicago to Memphis, and probably [Read more →]

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Int’l Vendor Roundup: ADVA, Alcatel-Lucent, Calix, Ericsson

April 9th, 2013
 

Lots of news this week by vendors from around the world, here’s a look at items from ADVA, Alcatel-Lucent, Calix, and Ericsson: [Read more →]

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Google Breaks Out of KC, Prepares to Take On Austin

April 9th, 2013
 

It’s still unofficial, but with this many leaks it’s quite clear we’re way beyond the rumor stage. Google is doing what I never figured they’d do: taking their formula from demonstration to an actual multi-market footprint. The next city to get the Kansas City Gigabit Express: Austin, Texas. [Read more →]

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Windstream Harvests Heartland Region Federal Contract

April 8th, 2013
 

Spring must be the season for these things, as the past few weeks have seen more than a couple cross the wires.  Today Windstream announced the receipt of a new federal contract from the GSA.  The local services acquisition deal puts their voice and data solutions before government agencies across GSA Region 6, the Heartland region of [Read more →]

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The Curious Case of WeChat and Net Neutrality in China

April 8th, 2013
 

For the past several weeks, a drama has played out in the Chinese press surrounding the messaging app WeChat. You see, users are up in arms over the possibility that the government won’t let the company that runs the service keep not charging for it. [Read more →]

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Batelco/Reliance Globalcom Deal Starting To Take Shape

April 8th, 2013
 

An article in the Times of India this morning presented details about an impending deal that would put Reliance Globalcom into the hands of Bahrain’s Batelco. Rumors of such a transaction have been bubbling up since the middle of March, and although Reliance has been trying to turn the division into cash for several years now with no success, this one is starting to look like the real deal. [Read more →]

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Ramblings Jobs: AireSpring, UPN

April 7th, 2013
 

We have two more job listings this week, one from AireSpring and another from Unite Private Networks. [Read more →]

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Friday Bytes: Digital Realty, Interoute, OTEGLOBE, Virtela

April 5th, 2013
 

Time for a Friday look at some of the other news this week, with items from Digital Realty, Interoute, OTEGlobe, and Virtela: [Read more →]

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Is Deutsche Telekom About to Blink?

April 4th, 2013
 

With the MetroPCS shareholder showdown just eight days away, it appears that Deutsche Telekom may be about to blink. It’s been some six months since they made the bid, which would simultaneously boost T-Mobile USA’s spectrum position and distance the German incumbent from its US progeny. [Read more →]

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Fiber Between Brothers: Reliance Does Deal With Reliance

April 4th, 2013
 

These days we rarely see nine figure fiber IRUs hit the wires, but that’s what happened earlier this week in India. Reliance Industries wants to get into 4G, and to get there they’re tapping Reliance Communications for a whole pile of dark fiber across the country. [Read more →]

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Cisco Strikes Again, Acquires Ubiquisys

April 3rd, 2013
 

It had been a few months since Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO, news, filings) acquired anything, so to correct the oversight they kicked off the second quarter by announcing their intention to buy Ubiquisys. The deal will bring key mobile technology aimed at small cell networks into Cisco’s portfolio.  [Read more →]

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GSA Selects Level 3 For GRITS

April 3rd, 2013
 

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) picked up some federal business today. They’ve been selected by the GSA as a provider for the GRITS II contract. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity deal has an estimated potential value of up to $285M with a four year term plus six optional years. [Read more →]

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Verizon Throws Cold Water on Vodafone Rumors, Again

April 3rd, 2013
 

After rumors yesterday that a Vodafone deal was in the works, Verizon quickly moved to put out the flames. If that sounds familiar it’s because it is. Whether it’s just for the Verizon Wireless stake, the whole shebang, or a three-way, such rumors have been difficult to stop lately. [Read more →]

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Colo Bytes: Cologix, Six Degrees, CyrusOne, Digital Realty, Equinix

April 2nd, 2013
 

Time for some quick catch-up in the colo space, with items from Cologix, 6DG, CyrusOne, Digital Realty, and Equinix: [Read more →]

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Verizon, AT&T to Tag-Team Vodafone?

April 2nd, 2013
 

The Vodafone rumor du jour would certainly be a dramatic event, should it come true. FT’s Alphaville blog paraphrases ‘usually reliable people’ as saying that Verizon and AT&T are preparing a joint bid for Vodafone worth something in the neighborhood of $245B.  Of course, ‘usually reliable people’ is a fairly general category which could be interpreted to include my dry cleaner and we are still dangerously close to April Fools day still, but then it the Financial Times here and such a deal isn’t entirely implausible. [Read more →]

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Fiber M&A: Tech Valley to Acquire TelJet

April 2nd, 2013
 

The Fiber M&A front has been relatively quiet so far in 2013, but this morning saw a bit of consolidation up in the northeast. Tech Valley Communications has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Vermont-based TelJet Longhaul, LLC. Those assets include both a metro and regional fiber network and a 20,000 square foot data center. [Read more →]

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Overhyped Spamhaus DDoS attack based on old flaw

April 2nd, 2013
 

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

Last week, news broke that the world’s largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in the history had taken place, almost crippling the internet. Only it might not have been quite as large as reports made it out to be. And it was something that could have been stopped by a fix that’s been around for over a decade. [Read more →]

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Limbaugh, Moore Take the Lead For FCC Chair, Commissioner

April 1st, 2013
 

Sources suggest there has been a dramatic shift in the race to replace the FCC’s Julius Genachowski and Robert McDowell. Rather than go with the usual technocrat with special interest ties, both sides of political establishment have come to the conclusion that a new direction is necessary to bring some passion and energy to telecom regulation. The Democrats will be nominating filmmaker Michael Moore, while the GOP is going with Rush Limbaugh. [Read more →]

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