According to Commsday this morning, the Australian communications minister Steven Conroy recently said that if prices don’t come down the NBN will build its own cable to the US. The $40B NBN project certainly has the firepower to build a cable if it wants to, but their current project list is surely long enough to keep them busy for a long time without [Read more →]
Equinix Brings Southern Cross Into Sydney IBX
September 27th, 2012

Various reports say that Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings) is now housing a direct link to the Southern Cross Cable Network. The direct connectivity makes it easy for customers to connect from SY1 to its Seattle IBXs, amongst others. The proximity to SCCN was crucial to Equinix’s choice of location when entering Australia. [Read more →]
MegaFon, Lattelecom, and DT Open New Route to Russia
September 27th, 2012
There’s a new network route connecting western Russia with Germany and its main Frankfurt hub. Russia’s MegaFon has teamed up with Latvia’s Lattelecom and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom to create the “Baltic highway”. [Read more →]
Wednesday Roundup 9/26: Ritter, Integra, Earthlink, Level 3
September 26th, 2012
Here’s today’s roundup of network operator news: an M&A for Ritter, a new product for Integra, and customer wins for Earthlink and Level 3: [Read more →]
Poll: Is Data Center Energy Usage a Problem?
September 26th, 2012
In the wake of the New York Times’ broadside on the energy habits of the data center industry and the many responses from around the internet, let’s take a poll of Ramblings’ readers and see where things stand: [Read more →]
WSJ: Cellphones Eating Family Budgets
September 26th, 2012
According to a detailed article over on the Wall Street Journal, the advent of smartphones has seen telecom spending by families go up sharply at the expense of things like cars, clothing, events, and eating out. That wireless carriers have succeeded in getting a greater share of family spending sounds great for the sector, but there’s a lot of conflicting trends going on here don’t you think? [Read more →]
Network Roundup: Optimum Lightpath, Hibernia Atlantic, Level 3
September 25th, 2012
Some quick takes on news from network operators this morning: contracts for Lightpath and Hibernia and a refinancing and confirmation of guidance by Level 3: [Read more →]
Turk Telekom Looking for Fresh M&A
September 25th, 2012
With European telecom and internet infrastructure valuations still way down, there’s another outside buyer looking to take advantage, this time from the southeast. According to Reuters, Turk Telekom’s CEO Tahsin Yilmaz said today that it has allotted up to €300M toward expansion via M&A. [Read more →]
Data Bytes 9/25: AMS-IX, DE-CIX, Savvis, Equinix, tw telecom
September 25th, 2012
Here’s a quick look at some of the data center news out already this week from two European internet exchanges, Savvis, Equinix, and tw telecom: [Read more →]
TeliaSonera Comes To Its VoIP Senses
September 25th, 2012
The Swedish-based telecommunications giant TeliaSonera has taken my advice and will opt for raising data prices rather than attempting to charge for OTT VoIP usage. Ok, maybe it wasn’t my advice they listened to (haha) but still, it’s nice to see that they decided not to go any further down the path they had laid out earlier this year. [Read more →]
A New CEO For Overture
September 24th, 2012
The Ethernet vendor overture has poached a Ciena executive to take its helm going forward. Mike Aquino has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer, with current CEO and co-founder Jeff Reedy staying on as [Read more →]
NYTimes: Data Centers Are Evil Incarnate
September 24th, 2012

If you ever wanted to read about how data centers are single handedly destroying the planet through intentionally wasteful design and greedy, unrestrained, unnecessary consumption all driven by the voracious demands of modern consumers, well now’s your chance. That’s the New York Times’s take over the weekend, which you can of course read online on the device of your choosing and thereby help waste yet more energy. [Read more →]
Ramblings’ Jobs: OTR Global
September 23rd, 2012
We have another new job listing on the Ramblings’ Jobs board this weekend, this time from a different angle than most listings we’ve had in the past. The research firm OTR Global is looking for a [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: Wave Broadband, Black Rock to Merge
September 22nd, 2012

It didn’t take long for the hypothetical cable/CLEC merger machine to make its first move following the FCC’s recent relaxation of the rules. On the west coast late this week, Wave Broadband and Black Rock Cable announced their plans to merge, bringing together a triple play footprint and a dense metro fiber business under one roof. [Read more →]
Data Bytes 9/21: Viawest, Ajubeo, CoreSite, Telx, Terremark
September 21st, 2012
A few datacenter and cloud quick takes before everyone goes off for the weekend: [Read more →]
Inteliquent Shakes Up Management, Are They For Sale?
September 21st, 2012
Late yesterday, Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) announced that its CFO, Robert Junkroski, and its President and COO, Surendra Saboo will be stepping down as of October 1. Both will remain on hand for a month to help with the transition, and the company plans to identify a new CFO but doesn’t currently intend to hire a successor to Dr. Saboo. [Read more →]
Looking Ahead for Zayo’s Next Move
September 20th, 2012
Today Zayo said it has finished interconnecting the AboveNet network with its own and achieved a variety of other milestones in the integration, which it has been working on for a little less than a quarter now. It’s a bigger job than any they have attempted before, but in a quarter or two they’ll surely be ready for more. [Read more →]
OTT partnerships crucial to LTE success: Google
September 20th, 2012
This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
The payoff for mobile broadband services in Asia-Pacific will rely not just on LTE, but a savvy and wide-ranging partnership between operators and OTT players. [Read more →]
DPSciences Hooks Up Via tw telecom
September 20th, 2012

When it comes to announcing customer wins, few major network operators have been as quiet this summer as TW Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC, news, filings) — over three months since the last one in fact. So yesterday’s release was welcome, detailing a multi-year contract with DP Sciences, a midwestern managed IT services outfit that specializes in the healthcare vertical. [Read more →]
Colo Bytes 9/19: Sidera, Digital Realty, Equinix, QTS, CoreSite
September 19th, 2012
Lots of colo news this week, here’s a roundup of interesting items from Sidera, Digital Realty, Equinix, and QTS. [Read more →]
John Legere Resurfaces, Takes Over T-Mobile USA
September 19th, 2012

A few weeks shy of the first anniversary of closing of Level 3’s purchase of Global Crossing, the latter’s former CEO has resurfaced in a somewhat unexpected direction. John Legere has been named Chief Executive Officer at T-Mobile USA, taking over for interim CEO Jim Alling. [Read more →]
IO Snags Goldman Sachs
September 19th, 2012

Phoenix-based IO won a major convert to its modular datacenter technology from the financial vertical this morning. None other than Goldman Sachs has signed on, with the two entering a long term strategic technology partnership. [Read more →]
Inteliquent Expands to Turkey, Eyes the Middle East
September 19th, 2012

This morning Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) announced the establishment of a foothold in Turkey. They have established a Turkish subsidiary and a strategic alliance with Turckcell Superonline. Soon to follow will be a PoP in the Turkcell Superonline data center in Istanbul and [Read more →]