Telecom Ramblings

Yesterday in New Delhi, yet another giant international submarine cable project was unveiled. The BRICS cable project would hook up Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa to the US. If you’re a map freak like me, you’ve now got a globe in your head on which you can’t figure out just what route we’re talking about. [Read more →]

Two announcements by Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) this week show the two sides of Level 3’s efforts to boost its growth in Europe in what has been a very persistetly tough economic environment. [Read more →]

Telecommunications giant Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) reported its first quarter 2012 earnings this morning, coming in slightly stronger than expected overall. Revenues of $28.24B were slightly ahead of expectations, while earnings per share of $0.59 beat composite analyst projections by a penny. The market is pleased thus far, with the stock up about [Read more →]

Yesterday Tata Communications (news, filings) took itself out of the auction for cw, after the two companies were unable to come to terms on a price. Tata had inserted itself into the process in late February after Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD, news, filings)‘s initial expression of interest two weeks earlier. I had thought Tata might have a better fit than Vodafone, but of course C&W has [Read more →]

Zayo, of course.   This morning AboveNet announced that the go-shop provision that was part of its merger agreement with Zayo has expired.  No additional bids were received, and therefore it looks like the deal will in fact go through as originally envisioned.  There had been no serious talk of another bid (that I heard anyway), and indeed it was hard to come up with a bidder with both [Read more →]

Telecommunications giant Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) this morning introduced a newly enhanced low latency offering on the crucial New York City to Chicago route. They’re targeting the high speed trading segment of course, with CME Group being one of the first to take advantage of it out in Aurora, Illinois. And Verizon provided an actual latency number for the new service: as low as [Read more →]

Time for some quick takes on recent news from the colocation and interconnection segment: [Read more →]

Two interesting items this morning from NAB coming out of two very different CDN operators whose paths have been diverging further lately. Obviously both companies still target many of the same opportunities, but lately they have chosen to emphasize different aspects of their offerings. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news already this week from competitive metro operators XO, Fiberlight, Zayo, and Tower Cloud: [Read more →]

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Equinix finished 2011 with 4,317 customers, excluding smaller clients inherited through the Virtu acquisition in East Netherlands.  While looking at customer count may not be necessarily indicative of revenues, the exercise of analyzing this metric may be interesting to see local strengths, [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) said this morning that it has completed a major expansion of its CDN capacity globally. That Level 3 is continuing to pour resources into the fastest growing piece of its business isn’t shocking of course, but it’s nice to get some details now and then. [Read more →]

Hibernia Media (news) and Colt Group (LON:COLT, news) have entered into a strategic relationship aimed at global media markets. Colt has picked Hibernia’s platform to deliver managed broadcast services to its European media customers, enabling them to draw on [Read more →]

As most have noticed, net neutrality storm clouds are gathering again and battle lines are being drawn. The flashpoint right now is Comcast’s decision to have its Xfinity streaming content not count against its bandwidth caps, but it’s not just Comcast. AT&T and Verizon are working on related ideas in which content providers would pay to have their traffic counted against data caps. While all this looks like it will develop into a purely partisan disagreement, I’m starting to wonder if there isn’t something useful buried in the idea. [Read more →]

Australian service provider M2 Telecoms says that it has agreed to buy the Australian operations of Primus Telecommunications Group (NYSE:PTGI, news, filings). Primus has been considering strategic alternatives since October. The company obviously has found the optimal solution to be breaking up the assets in order to appeal to local buyers, which is what I suggested [Read more →]

The business unit of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA, news, filings) took home a trophy win for its Metro Ethernet business this week. The cable giant has been selected to bring big bandwidth to the both the summer and spring homes of the Boston Red Sox. They will be providing connectivity both for historic Fenway Park in Boston and for [Read more →]

Three data center expansion projects hit the news yesterday: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Joseph Waring, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

It recently came to light that mobile operators in the US are charging police departments substantial sums for wiretaps and other requests for their users’ personal cellphone data, with the fees differing widely — from $325 per wiretap target per month to as much as $700. [Read more →]

Alternative CDN and now cloud services provider Limelight Networks (NASDAQ:LLNW, news, filings) is still expanding its list of carrier partners. Today they added one south of the border, Bestel, who will be launching Limelight’s cloud-based suite under its DigiContent brand. That will let them serve the video production, management, and delivery needs of Mexican corporations without having to start from scratch. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at recent news items from the metro space: [Read more →]

Two interesting items for Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) this week, one on the cusp of the mobile data revolution and the other from the the horn of Africa. [Read more →]

Tech giant Dell is getting into the CDN business according to a release this morning. They are now offering Dell Deliver, which is built on EdgeCast’s platform with video processing from Elemental and of course is ultimately powered by plenty of [Read more →]

Data Center operator RagingWire has selected sidera to provide fiber connectivity to its new 140,000 square foot facility in Ashburn. RagingWire leased the space last May, expanding from its base in Sacramento which now features some 470,000 square feet. A key selling point for Sidera’s bid was its extra network diversity on the route between Ashburn and the New York metro area, which manages to offer bypass routes [Read more →]

While we’re all waiting to see if Zayo succeeds in its bid to buy the company, abvt is still out there selling bandwidth. This morning they picked up a key UK contract in the financial vertical supplying connectivity to BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe . [Read more →]