Telecom Ramblings

A quick survey at some items from the data center over the last day or two, from zColo, Internap, CDNetworks, and Equinix: [Read more →]

Masergy Communications (news, filings) made an inorganic move today into a new line of business. The managed network services provider has acquired Broadcore Communications, which specializes in cloud communications. Masergy is clearly building up its cloud portfolio to better address the needs of enterprises, and may very well have other targets in mind. [Read more →]

Two early data points for Q2 financials are now in, with quite opposing viewpoints. Upstart VoIP provider magicJack VocalTec (NASDAQ:CALL, news, filings) pre-announced even better results than it had promised, while Acme Packet (news, filings) took another punch in the gut. [Read more →]

Telefonica (NYSE:TEF, news, filings) said this morning that it has successfully trialed a new network design leveraging ADVA transport gear and a RAYcontrol GMPLS control plane, Juniper edge routers, ROADM, and multi-layer configuration from the European IST project ONE effort. That’s a long list, but what does it mean? [Read more →]

This morning saw the birth of an M2M alliance spanning vast, yet still quite incomplete global coverage. Seven mobile operators have teamed up for M2M cooperation in coming years: KPN, NTT Docomo, Rogers, SingTel, Telefonica, Telstra, and Vimpelcom. [Read more →]

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The second quarter of 2012 was still positive, on average, for most data center stocks, while the CDN sector remains very volatile. While performances were not as impressive as in the first quarter, we may recognize a trend as network-neutral operators and REITs seem to attract the attention of most investors. [Read more →]

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Data center stocks had a great performance in the first half of 2012, easily beating all market benchmarks. From now on, we’ll start sharing on Telecom Ramblings a monthly update of how the major listed data center and CDN stocks are performing on the stock exchange. To introduce the coverage, we’ll start with two articles reviewing Q1 and Q2 2012. [Read more →]

Last week marked nine months since Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) closed its purchase of Global Crossing, and this week will be fifteen months since the deal itself was announced. The company’s stock price today is still below where it was on both of those dates, but the underlying fundamentals seem poised to shift dramatically in their favor over the next quarter or two. [Read more →]

With the first big heat wave of the summer mostly over in North America (we hope), here’s a quick look at some interesting news already this week from Reliance, Equinix, Xand, Interoute, and Vonage: [Read more →]

There’s a nice piece in Sunday’s New York Times about the huge and growing demand for surveillance information from wireless carriers by law enforcement agencies local to federal. Apparently, wireless carriers responded to 1.3M such requests last year, up sharply from last year. [Read more →]

You know, perhaps this would have gone better if we had outsourced it to the RIAA and MPAA that have so much experience tracking down individual internet activity across the globe. They certainly seem to have no problem finding and notifying the owners of computers accessing bits they oughtn’t.  The FBI is [Read more →]

Sometimes you just have to sit back and wonder about the world. This week, Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) and its smaller mobile competitor MetroPCS took another swing at network neutrality regulations. This time though, timing things to coincide with our annual preoccupation with 5-4 Supreme Court rulings du jour, they brought out the legal guns of last resort, claiming net neutrality violates their freedom of speech. [Read more →]

As promised (but a little later than expected), I have updated my Metro Fiber and Lit Buildings statistics once again. There are a few stragglers promising new data that still may come in for whom I will update this post, but here’s the current list (recent updates in purple): [Read more →]

Yesterday was Independence Day in the US of course, but that doesn’t mean that nothing happened but fireworks and hot dogs elsewhere. Here’s a quick roundup of telecom and internet infrastructure news from the likes of Facebook, Verizon, Ericsson, and Equinix over the last day or two: [Read more →]

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

ITEM: The Korea Communications Commission has reportedly made it legal for SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ to charge their customers extra fees to use VoIP apps – or block their use entirely. [Read more →]

NTT Communications (NYSE:NTT, news, filings) is continuing to build out its European network presence. Today they extended their Tier-1 IP network southward into the city of Milan in Italy in response to customer demand.  [Read more →]

Yesterday’s article produced quite a spirited response, both online and offline.  So let’s try a reader poll on the subject.  You know my view, what’s yours? [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some other news already this week: [Read more →]

Down in Texas, Alpheus Communications says it is expanding both its workforce and its fiber network to take on the enterprise market. The regional fiber operator has traditionally been more of a wholesale player, with its fairly conservative chief focus having been to sell fiber access to central offices and major aggregation points across the region to larger telecommunications carriers. [Read more →]

As I expected might happen today, Zayo Group (news, filings)‘s purchase of AboveNet is now officially a done deal. Zayo has come a long way from its earliest days picking off lesser known assets like Indiana Fiberworks and Memphis Networx, and is one of the largest fiber operators in the country. They have 61,000 route miles of fiber, 4.6M fiber miles, 20 colo facilities, and about 9,000 on-net buildings.  Of US network operators, only [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) said this morning that it has launched a new data center service in its Latin American markets. The managed hosting solution is offering usage-based, virtualized computing capacity to enterprise customers, but also guaranteeing resource availability and enabling burst consumption. [Read more →]

If Zayo’s pending purchase of AboveNet says anything, it’s that those islands of underinvested fiber (metro, regional, or intercity) that were orphaned by the hundreds across the USA when the dotcom bubble burst are getting pretty darn scarce. [Read more →]

Job listings have started to pick up again after a slow start to the summer season, which hopefully will be the story in the rest of the economy. This week we saw a new listing posted by OpenCape, the Massachussetts buildout bringing fiber and big bandwidth to Cape Cod. [Read more →]