Telecom Ramblings

According to FierceWireless and other reports, the FCC is preparing to revise how it decides how much spectrum is too much. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will propose the review with a vote on September 28. They’ll be looking at the rather obvious issue of whether to treat lower frequency spectrum differently than higher frequency spectrum, expecially in the context of [Read more →]

Labor Day weekend awaits, at least in the US.  Here’s a Friday poll first though.  After last week’s FCC move suspending flexible deregulation of special access markets on the grounds they were obviously not working, the next question is obvious.  What ought they do now, if anything? [Read more →]

This article was authored by Michael J Carroll, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Is the UK reacting too harshly to web trolls – people who post insulting or derogatory comments on social networks? [Read more →]

Time for a quick review of news from the colo and cloud sector, featuring Fogo, zColo, IO, Primus, and Switch: [Read more →]

Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN, news, filings) followed up its upbeat fiscal Q2 report with a more muted fiscal Q3 report this morning.  Revenues came in at $474.1M, toward the upper end of guidance and a hair above analyst expectations, while adjusted loss per share of $0.04 was slightly below expectations.  It’s probably the Q4 revenue guidance that will attract the most eyes though, coming in light.   Here’s a quick table in some context.   [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) said this morning that it has been selected as the official media and technology provider for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte next week. It’s a major coup in the ‘politcal vertical’, but of course this almost an encore performance, as  four years ago out in Denver Level 3 did the same thing for Obama and crew.  [Read more →]

Time for a look at some news from around the world, with items from Hibernia Atlantic, AT&T, NTT, AXTEL, and Level 3: [Read more →]

A week without an expansionary move by Zayo Group (news, filings) is a rare thing these days. Yesterday the national fiber operator said it has upgraded its fiber route between Spokane, Washington and Portland, Oregon.  [Read more →]

Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC, news)‘s Business Class division announced big expansion plans for the largest metro market in the US. They’ll be putting some $25M into building out their fiber network in the Big Apple this year.  [Read more →]

Amsterdam’s AMS-IX is extending its exchange tentacles further into Equinix’s infrastructure in the Dutch capital.  The giant European internet exchange spans the metro area with some big pipes, with connectivity across Europe as well.  [Read more →]

Yesterday we had a bumper crop of cloud news, as providers across the ecosystem continue to jockey for position via partnerships, product launches, and the like. Here’s a quick rundown on items from Savvis, Masergy, Navisite, Cisco, Juniper, and Limelight: [Read more →]

TeliaSonera AB (ETR:TLS, news, filings) International Carrier and Hibernia Atlantic are teaming up, combining their respective media delivery businesses. Hibernia Media will be acquiring TSIC’s MediaConnect business and merging it into its own, while TSIC’s global fiber backbone will be used to greatly augment the combined networks’ reach around the world, but especially [Read more →]

Hughes Cloud Services is taking its SLA all the way to the desktop via Level 3’s MPLS network, according to a release out today. Rather than messing with private lines and longhaul connectivity, they’re sticking to the IP/MPLS layer with enhanced network monitoring to help monitor network health. [Read more →]

So the big news late last week, of course, was Apple’s victory over Samsung in its patent lawsuit to the tune of $1.05B. While there are still more rounds to go before that victory is set in stone, it will roil the handheld device sector bigtime and may even just be a skirmish that leads up to a fight with Google. But I’ll let the gadget blogs take that on. What I’m wondering is whether this is something network operators really did not want to see. [Read more →]

Mammoth Networks says it has completed a major native Ethernet upgrade to its backbone, boosting capacity throughout its Western territory by five-fold. The upgrade covers nine key sites and a dozen markets, including Albuquerque, Billings, and Spokane. [Read more →]

And I do mean catchup – I’ve been on the road for the last 36 hours, and so I apologize for falling a bit behind! Here’s a quick look at some news to close out the week from DukeNet, CenturyLink, Hibernia Atlantic, and FiberMedia: [Read more →]

Yesterday, just after I left on a trip (naturally), the FCC made a very important but still inconclusive regulatory move. In a party line 3-2 vote, the agency suspended the rules passed in 1999 that allowed incumbent providers flexibility in special access pricing. [Read more →]

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

As you no doubt know, the ITU has plans to update its International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs), which were last updated in 1988, and have since become badly outdated. At the time, most [Read more →]

In a bid for faster international growth, Calix Networks (NYSE:CALX, news, filings) has made a deal with the much larger vendor Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC, news, filings). They have agreed to acquire the fiber access business of from the Swedish giant, including its GPON solution which is the main focus. [Read more →]

The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications (NYSE:NTT, news, filings) has been very vocal about the expansion of its IP backbone over the past few years. Yesterday they announced they have passed 500Gbps between Asia and Oceania.  That compares not so unfavorably with [Read more →]

The end of August tends to be a slow time when it comes to big news, but there’s still interesting stuff to find if you look hard enough: [Read more →]

Some quick catchup with news from overseas — Rackspace down under, Equinix in southeast Asia, and PCCW in the Middle East: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some cloud/colo news with items from Equinix, Savvis, Limelight, and iomart: [Read more →]