Friday Bytes: Inteliquent, Digital Realty, Stackpop, Open Data Centers, Colt

June 22nd, 2012
 

I’ll be travelling on Monday, so if something happens that Ramblings doesn’t cover right away, you’ll know why. But before everyone goes off into the weekend, here are some quick takes on the other news of the week. [Read more →]

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GlobeNet Plans New Cable Build to Colombia

June 22nd, 2012
 

GlobeNet (news) [a subsidiary of Oi (news)] said yesterday that it plans to build a new submarine cable in the Caribbean. Extending from their their current cable routes hooking up Brazil to the eastern coast of the US and the islands in between, they plan to build a brand new express route between [Read more →]

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Telcos must become OTT ‘toolbox’ to survive

June 22nd, 2012
 

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

Telcos hoping to cash in on – or at least survive – the rise of OTT services must open their network APIs and transform themselves into a toolbox to help OTT players innovate. [Read more →]

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Slim, America Movil Raise KPN Stake Above 20%

June 21st, 2012
 

The KPN board is getting schooled by Carlos Slim and the Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil. Today AM announced that after additional transactions, it has taken its minority position from 8.7% the other day all the way up to [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Zayo, CenturyLink, USCarrier, Farmington

June 21st, 2012
 

Several metro and regional items of notice: [Read more →]

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Level 3 Deploys New Data Center In Omaha

June 21st, 2012
 

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) said today that it is opening a new enterprise-grade data center facility in Omaha, which in many ways is the Colorado-based company’s home away from home. The new ‘Premier Elite’ data center will be targeted at meeting the growing needs of the enterprise sector, which is rapidly [Read more →]

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Reliance’s Submarine Cable IPO Fights For Investor Support

June 21st, 2012
 

Earlier this month, Reliance Communications got approval from Singapore to IPO its submarine cable unit and plans to make it happen next month.  But as it has educated investors on the unit’s potential, those investors have apparently been educating them in return about what they are willing to pay for. [Read more →]

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XO Expands Metro Via Transmode

June 21st, 2012
 

XO Holdings (news, filings) is revamping its metro network capabilities by bringing in packet-optical gear from the Swedish vendor Transmode. XO was looking to scale capacity on its national metro footprint more cost effectively. [Read more →]

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Colo Roundup 6/20: Cogeco, Digital Realty, C7, Lightower, Savvis

June 20th, 2012
 

Time for a series of quick-takes on recent news from the colo business: [Read more →]

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PT Telkom Drops Pacnet’s Ball, Who Will Pick It Up?

June 20th, 2012
 

Last month we learned that Indonesia’s PT Telkom was looking seriously at a bid for Pacnet. Then Pacnet sent CEO Bill Barney packing in a surprise move alongside rumors that he had differed with the company’s private equity owners on a sale.  It looked like PT Telkom was all set to gobble up the regional submarine cable operator, but apparently it was not to be. [Read more →]

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BTI Wins Backhaul Deal in Malaysia

June 20th, 2012
 

BTI Systems won an interesting deal in Southeast Asia yesterday. Fiberail is deploying their converged packet-optical and Carrier Ethernet gear to extend their delivery of mobile backhaul and Carrier Ethernet across the Southeast Asian nation.  [Read more →]

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Hudson Fiber Teams with Cross River and KVH for Lower Latency

June 20th, 2012
 

Hudson Fiber Network tapped a partner each in Japan and New Jersey to help bring lower latency connectivity to their customers, especially of the financial variety. [Read more →]

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Richmond’s Schools Get Some Windstream Fiber

June 19th, 2012
 

Windstream (NYSE:WIN, news, filings) said today that it is bringing big bandwidth to the Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. The buildout covers 87 route miles hooking up some 58 locations across the school district under an E-Rate contract. Richmond’s teachers and students will hopefully find [Read more →]

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Datapipe Takes Hibernia to London

June 19th, 2012
 

Datapipe is teaming up with Hibernia Networks (news) to connect up its data centers in the New York and London metro areas. They’ve purchased wavelength services from the submarine cable operator to bring lower latency connectivity to [Read more →]

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Lightower Builds Low Latency Route to NJ1

June 19th, 2012
 

Lightower Fiber Networks (news) has been putting a lot of money to work in New Jersey as it adds depth to its network to match what it has on the other side of the Hudson. Today they unveiled a new route and claimed the low latency title between two of the newer data hubs in the region: [Read more →]

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Slim Boosts KPN Stake Further, but Austria too?

June 19th, 2012
 

Carlos Slim is definitely sending European the telecommunications sector a message: he’s coming and he’s definitely not bluffing. The billionaire’s Latin American’ telecommunications business, America Movil, has been spending quite aggressively to build its European presence. [Read more →]

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Infinera Ships Its DTN-X

June 19th, 2012
 

Infinera (NASDAQ:INFN, news, filings) has finally started shipping its next generation DTN-X platform, by the end of Q2 as they had previously promised. They’ve already announced two early customers over in Europe: EPEG and DANTE for the 500Gbps superchannel PICs, but I expect we will see some additional network operators sign on publicly over the next few weeks and months. [Read more →]

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Int’l Roundup: Ciena, Orange, BT, Equinix

June 18th, 2012
 

A quick roundup of news from around the world again: [Read more →]

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Orbis Enters Vodafone/C&W Orbit At Last

June 18th, 2012
 

Looks like the purchase of cw by Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD, news, filings) may have overcome its biggest hurdle. Orbis, which is C&WW’s largest shareholder, is apparently now on board with the deal according to reports.  [Read more →]

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The FCC Prepares to Voluntarily Chase a Wild Goose

June 18th, 2012
 

Over the weekend we learned that the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is circulating a proposal to reopen the subject of the dangers of cell phone radiation. [Read more →]

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Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Needs to Evolve

June 18th, 2012
 

Earlier this month, the Sea-Me-We-4 cable was cut about 60km from Singapore, and while such things happen regularly to submarine cables this one exposed the region’s over-dependence on a few assets. Renesys has a nice piece out describing the unexpectedly large impact the break is having on providers across the region, with [Read more →]

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Ramblings Jobs: UPN, Fatbeam, and Lightower

June 15th, 2012
 

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 listings pop up from Unite Private Networks, Fatbeam, and Lightower. [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Zayo, Overture, Earthlink, Cbeyond, and Telecom Exchange

June 15th, 2012
 

While I am mostly a virtual presence in the world of telecom, the week after next I will be present in person in New York City at the Telecom Exchange 2012, for which Telecom Ramblings is also a media sponsor.  So if you’ll be around, you know where to find me. In the meantime, here’s a quick review of some interesting bits of news from the CLEC and Metro side of the tracks. [Read more →]

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