Telecom Ramblings

Following up its extensions to London and Toronto, sidera is adding additional submarine capacity to its network. They will be acquiring capacity on Seaborn Networks’ planned Seabras-1 system between the US and Sao Paolo, Brazil, planning to have in place the lowest latency route when it goes online in [Read more →]

A few quick-takes on news from overseas in the past day or two from Hibernia Atlantic, LION2, Pacnet, and Oi: [Read more →]

Ok, I’ve been asked enough times now to update my opinion about where XO goes from here, although I don’t think the situation has changed all that much. Given the astonishing length and duration of the comment thread on the Layoffs at XO post, it has been clear that there are strong feelings involved.  But Icahn will sooner or later make a move, and it still [Read more →]

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

This time last year, big-name web content providers such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Yahoo! supported both IPv6 and IPv4 for 24 hours to test the impact on service quality. [Read more →]

The UK telecommunications market has been very much in flux for a few years now, and today there was another twist. The UK mobile divisions of vod and tef have now announced their intention to formally join forces at the infrastructure level – a major redesign of their existing partnership.  [Read more →]

Japanese powerhouse KDDI and its colocation arm, TELEHOUSE revealed some big expansion plans for the Chinese colocation market. And I don’t mean just Hong Kong where they will be adding to an already active expansion project, but Beijing too this time with a new build.  The price tag of  the expansion will amount to ¥11B, or about $140M.    [Read more →]

cw may be in the midst of a buyout process with vod but they’re continuing to push ahead in network deployment.  Today they announced the migration of their metro networks in Hong Kong and Singapore to 100G, giving their assets in the Far East a necessary [Read more →]

Quick takes on some expansion news from Digital Realty and C7, an acquisition by Peer 1, another contract for Akamai, and the results of the shareholder vote at Abovenet: [Read more →]

Today is World IPv6 Day again, but this time participants are doing more than testing things for a day.  This time, when they launch the switch stays on.  Or at least it does for those who are ready, which hopefully will be enough to start a tiny little snowball rolling.  What do you think are we there yet? [Read more →]

The news that nflx is building its own CDN infrastructure gave the markets a chance to do what do best: overreact. There’s always a company or two out there at any given time whose every action gets obsessed over like this, and for the past two years [Read more →]

Zayo certainly has a bottomless appetite for metro fiber.  With the Arialink deal on the books for just one month and the AboveNet deal set to close in the next month or two, the company struck yet again with a big Mid-Atlantic purchase.  Zayo said today that it is buying privately held FiberGate, boosting its presence in Washington DC and the surrounding region in a big way.   [Read more →]

A few interesting items from overseas that are worth a quick look from Mexico’s CFE, Level 3, Hibernia Atlantic, and ChinaCache: [Read more →]

It had to happen sooner or later, but I’ll bet some in the CDN sector were hoping it would be a bit later than this. Yesterday nflx took the wrappings off its Open Connect Network, a special purpose in-house CDN designed to eventually take over the bulk of its content delivery needs over the next few years.  [Read more →]

A few quick takes on other news today and over the weekend from inetwork, Pangaea Networks, Limelight, Inteliquent, and Gulf Bridge International: [Read more →]

call is once again trumpeting its results before quarter’s end. The upstart VoIP provider said today that earnings per share over the first two months have already exceeded analyst projections for the full quarter, with all of June now just adding icing on top of the cake. [Read more →]

Last week Dan Rayburn went on at some length about the huge effect the major carriers are still NOT having on the CDN marketplace. Specifically he mentioned how few CDN customers either Verizon or AT&T have relative to the field – they come in way behind not just the leaders but the main pack of challengers as well. Only Level 3 has made a real dent in the sector. [Read more →]

Over the weekend, Canada’s BCE, a.k.a. Bell, and three private equity groups have announced an agreement to acquire Q9 Networks.  It’s just the latest example of an incumbent provider acquiring data center assets in order to gain a foothold in the very hot new market of providing cloud-based solutions to the enterprise. [Read more →]

Time to catch up on the rest of the news before heading off into the weekend. Here’s a quick look at an EoC milestone for Integra, and three colo deals: [Read more →]

Japanese telecommunications giant ntt has been busy in Europe lately, and today they furthered their cloud ambitions via M&A. They have acquired an 85% stake in Gyron Internet Limited, a UK data center operator. Gyron operates 3MW of space near London with two more data centers totaling another [Read more →]

kpn isn’t going to help Carlos Slim’s América Móvil in its unsolicited bid for a 27.7% stake. Today the company’s board recommended that shareholders ‘take no action’ in response to the offer, saying that the proposed €8 price offers no premium to shareholders.  [Read more →]

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

Telcos talk a lot about customer service and experience, but few are willing to go as far as United Arab Emirates operator du, which is offering subscribers a direct line to senior management. [Read more →]

win says it plans to restructure its management ranks, expecting to eliminate 375-400 positions for annualized savings of approximately $30-40M. This has obviously been in the works for a while, and shouldn’t surprise anyone given the PAETEC acquisition closed six months ago and there are synergies yet to derive from it. [Read more →]

lvlt is taking its content business deeper into South America. Today they announced their first live Vyvx broadcast in Brazil. And since this is Brazil, it had to be soccer driving things. Indeed, it was two professional women’s soccer matches transmitted in HD from [Read more →]