Telecom Ramblings

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

I came across an interesting article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s newsletter outlining how Moore’s Law is now largely redundant because attention is switching from processing power to [Read more →]

In an announcement that investors will welcome, Infinera (NASDAQ:INFN, news, filings) today formally unveiled its next generation of PICs based on coherent 100Gbps technology. Each DTN-X PIC will support 5x100Gbps of traffic, ten of which can be linked up to behave as a single 5Tbps virtual switch. It will have OTN switching built in as well as MPLS, and is being positioned as [Read more →]

Indian telecommunications giant Tata Communications (news, filings) has launched a new cloud-based service. They’ve moved both Intelligent Call Routing and Interactive Voice Response onto a cloud infrastructure. The call center industry can use them for routing and distributing calls to their locations around the world.  The solution features [Read more →]

The Vyvx division of Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) is making progress in the college sports market. They announced today a new service aimed at bringing their professional sports broadcast services to universities, entitled Vyvx VenueNet Lite. It uses a university’s existing fiber infrastructure for connectivity across campus. That eliminates the [Read more →]

Gazettabyte has an interesting piece about where the next boost in bandwidth is going to come from now that 100G is making its way into production networks. They detail the efforts of a European research group, called MODE-GAP, looking for ways to multiply the total capacity of an optical fiber by another 100.  If we can put 10Tbps on a single fiber now and perhaps 20-25Tbps in a few years, then [Read more →]

EdgeCast’s focus on enabling content delivery for telecommunications providers took on a new dimension today. In a deal with transparent caching technology specialist PeerApp, they have created a joint CDN solution that addresses both managed and unmanaged content streams. [Read more →]

Seems like nobody in the wireless space is where they want to be right now. The summer season has seen a whole series of contentious issues go unresolved, or in some cases get worse: [Read more →]

Pacific bandwidth specialist Pacnet is making a substantial move deeper into the CDN business. Two years ago, they stuck a toe into the CDN pool by starting to resell Internap’s CDN services.  But as with many telecommunications companies efforts at the time, little had ever come of it.  Today though that has changed, as Pacnet announced their intention to deploy [Read more →]

Yesterday, LTE wholesaler-in-waiting LightSquared made another attempt to mollify the GPS Industry over interference concerns.  They offered to cut power substantially, a move that will require them to have more towers for the same coverage.  They also offered to reserve a specific band for high precision signals, which would help with particular applications.  But while the offer reduces the potential problems, it obviously doesn’t eliminate them completely.  And since the GPS industry has little incentive to compromise, we’re probably still not done yet.  You can read that in the GPS industry’s cautious response to the offer.  I’ll try my hand at translating bits of it from Publicity-English into English: [Read more →]

Swedish-based packet optical specialist Transmode unveiled its plans for 100G today. They’re focusing not just on long haul but also regional and metro applications. The economics of true 100G technology are still evolving, which means there is still time for new entrants to get their solution in place. Especially in the metro, which is [Read more →]

Lots of news items out yesterday, I guess the Labor day folks are all back in the building. A quick look at a few: [Read more →]

There’s a Reuters piece out today quoting Internap’s CEO, Eric Cooney, that seeks to stamp out recent speculation that the company is for sale.  The proliferation of cloud/colocation purchases by large telcos has changed the face of the sector over the last three quarters, with carrier-neutral properties like Terremark and Savvis now carrier owned, though neutrally operated. [Read more →]

Earlier this year, Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) promised to take its European 100G experience stateside by the end of Q2, deploying the latest ULH technology on a handful of routes. Today they made good on that promise and announced the deployment of Ciena’s 100G coherent solution in the US, although perhaps a little bit later than [Read more →]

Privately held Interoute (news) offered up a few details on its performance in the first half of 2011. Revenues grew 20% to €167M, up 20% over the same period last year. That’s a substantial acceleration over the rate they saw the prior year, despite the fact that the macroeconomic environment in Europe remains rather dodgy. [Read more →]

NTT America and its sister subsidiary NTT do Brasil finally took the plunge and built out their IP network into South America, according to a press release today. The new PoP is in Sao Paolo, the country’s main data hub – and the continent’s as well I suppose.  The expansion will expand NTT’s ability to serve customers there, offering more choice in international connectivity and especially to Asia.   [Read more →]

Another new posting on Ramblings’ Jobs Board to report this weekend.  Zayo followed up its earnings report at the end of last week with a posting for a Field Technician focused markets in [Read more →]

TGIF again.  Before you go, let’s catch up quickly on what slipped through the cracks (at least for me): [Read more →]

Zayo filed its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2011 results overnight, keeping pace with the strong, solid sequential growth we have seen other fiber operators post recently despite a weakening macroeconomic environment.  However, one has to read rather carefully to tell, because Zayo is continually realigning [Read more →]

Several items in the datacenter sector worth a quick look this week:

IO’s giant modular project in New Jersey added another fiber provider yesterday.  New metro fiber entrant [Read more →]

Two international giants made separate cloud-based moves on the security space yesterday, taking on the threat from the DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have driven [Read more →]

Two interesting items out from Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings), featuring very different [Read more →]

While commercial implementations of 100G technology have started to show up in the long haul, we haven’t seen it show up much in the metro. Today, however, Adva Optical Networking (ETR:ADV, news) made its move on the space, unveiling a solution integrated into its FSP 3000 DWDM system. The solution is based on [Read more →]

Where there was once one giant deal that was absolutely critical to the survival of the wireless industry, there now seem to be many.  Days after the DOJ sued to stop the merger, news of the backup plans AT&T built into the thing in the first place is now creeping out. It’s also becoming clear just how little we really know about the underlying details. [Read more →]