Telecom Ramblings

National metro operator abvt says that it has put substantial resources to work in its Atlanta market this year.  That means new low latency fiber routes bringing more key sites on-net in downtown Atlanta, Alpharetta, Buckhead and Norcross, highlighting QTS in particular.  It also means additional headcount and expertise dedicated to the Southeast. [Read more →]

Hybrid RLEC/CLEC Windstream (NYSE:WIN, news, filings) turned in its fourth quarter earnings report this morning, giving us our first look at the company since it acquired PAETEC in December. They mercifully focused most of their key metrics on the pro-forma numbers, i.e. including [Read more →]

Cogent Communications (NASDAQ:CCOI, news, filings) reported its fourth quarter earnings  this morning.    Overall, Cogent continued its streak of steady, increasingly profitable growth.  Revenues were slightly low due to currency fluctuations, but the company managed a nice surprise down on the all-important bottom line.  Here’s a quick table of today’s numbers in context. [Read more →]

In what is the most obviously inevitable workforce reduction so far this year, LightSquared (news) is supposedly planning to cut 45% of its workforce. Following the FCC’s decision to stop the buildout of their wholesale LTE network due to GPS interference concerns, the company currently lacks [Read more →]

Zayo Group (news, filings) said today that it is expanding its northeastern fiber network to include a focus on high capacity intercity Ethernet and wavelength transport. What that means is 800Gbps of new total network capacity being targeted at one of the most competitive intercity markets in the world, i.e. within the Chicago/NYC/WashingtonDC triangle with access points in key facilities in [Read more →]

Networking equipment vendor Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN, news, filings) pre-announced some preliminary results for the company’s fiscal first quarter, which ended January 31. The verdict can be summed up in one word: Yuck. [Read more →]

When managed hosting provider Carpathia Hosting went out to get more space, they weren’t kidding around. Carpathia will be using the services of a joint venture consisting of both Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR, news, filings) and Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings) to get the [Read more →]

Plenty of news overseas lately that is worth a quick look: [Read more →]

The Middle East’s newest, biggest cable has now officially gone live. Gulf Bridge International (news) and TE Subcom (news) today pronounced the system ‘ready for service’, bringing at least 5.18Tbps to the table and dragging the region’s bandwidth markets further into the modern world. Local ownership and landing stations in eight Gulf countries give each a direct pipe to both [Read more →]

A reader recently asked me to comment on a possible combination of CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL, news, filings) and Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) after the two have finished their respective integrations. Various articles and research notes have alluded to the possibility of late, including [Read more →]

So much time, effort, and money were spent on LightSquared’s effort to build an LTE wholesale alternative over the past year or so, and now unless there is some serious magic left in Philip Falcone’s wand it all seems to have gone for naught.  LightSquared blames the GPS industry for sloppy design and inflexibility in finding a fix.  The GPS industry blames LightSquared for trying to kill their technology first and check for problems later.  Still others blame [Read more →]

Systems integrator CSC is planning to add some substantial infrastructure to its cloud effort.  They have launched a 1.5MW expansion at two of CoreSite’s facilities in Boston and Northern Virginia in support of a one of their clients in the global financial vertical.  The infrastructure is already in place, with direct access to CSC’s [Read more →]

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

It’s been a banner week for the French-American network gear vendor. Last Friday Alcatel-Lucent reported its first full-year profit ever, posting earnings of $1.32 billion for 2011 after a loss of $439 million the previous year. With revenue down 2% during the period, that’s quite a turnaround involving some serious cost cutting. [Read more →]

Let’s catch up on some recent news from the metro fiber operators and a quick look at the U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard according to Vertical Systems Group: [Read more →]

Having spent the year integrating the assets of Deltacom and One Communications as well as other smaller purchases, Earthlink (NASDAQ:ELNK, news, filings) closed out 2011 with its fourth quarter earnings this morning.  Revenues of $350.2M were slightly above expectations, while earnings per share of $0.04 was inline with estimates.  Here is a quick table of the company’s results alongside the prior quarter’s numbers: [Read more →]

Data center builder and operator Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings) filed its Q4 earnings yesterday, turning in its usual workmanlike growth report.  Of course, the stock has risen sharply since the beginning of the year and probably overshot a bit on expectations, but at its core Equinix seems to have had a fine quarter overall in which it met guidance and maintained its forward projections.  Here’s a quick tabular summary: [Read more →]

Time to catch up on some bits and pieces from the colocation sector recently: [Read more →]

According to the New York Times and others this morning, LightSquared (news) has finally run out of runway.  In response to the NTIA’s conclusion that there is no practical way to resolve the GPS interference issue, the FCC has decided to revoke the conditional approval they had handed [Read more →]

We haven’t heard much from metro fiber builder and operator FiberLight (news) recently, so it was nice to see them kick off a big expansion project yesterday. With anchor customers in hand, they announced a massive metro and regional infrastructure build-out into [Read more →]

Zayo Group (news, filings) turned in its usual steady performance for its fiscal second quarter, boosted especially by one month’s revenue from the 360Networks purchase.  Here’s a quick table of some of the company’s results in context: [Read more →]

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO, news, filings) issued another of its traffic forecasts of doom today, putting a few numbers to the challenge faced by mobile networks over the next five years. In a nutshell, they are projecting 18-fold growth over that time period, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month when 2016 rolls around. Meanwhile, AT&T has chimed in with the news that its’ mobile data traffic doubled again last year.  There’s no doubt, it’s going to be a lot of bits. [Read more →]

Really? According to the Wall Street Journal this morning, hackers penetrated the internal networks of Nortel and stayed in there for a decade. Yes, a decade, and may still be in there eight years after the attack was discovered in 2004. You know, way back when we all thought MicroSoft was the root of all evil and Google was harmless and wonderful.  [Read more →]

This article was authored by Don Sambandaraksa, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Corrupt and politicized regulation is rearing its ugly head spooking telco investment across Asia. [Read more →]