Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

Between the traditional summer bookends of Memorial Day and Labor Day we had lots of M&A rumors amongst fiber operators, but only a few substantial deals that actually happened plus a smattering of smaller ones. More interesting was the substantial amount of fiber that was for sale that *didn’t* get bought. Let’s review: [Read more →]

We had a fitting end to a summer of job postings on Ramblings’ Jobs Board, with one last posting over Labor Day weekend from XO Communications.  XO is looking for a Product Manager IV in Herndon, VA.  Last week they posted a job listing for Senior Major Account Executives.  XO of course recently became a privately held company, as billionaire Carl Icahn finally took control of the last bit of the company he didn’t already own.  Is he now shifting gears [Read more →]

Since its re-emergence a few years ago, abvt has impressed many by leveraging their deep Tier 1 metro fiber footprint with a tightly focused business model to generate steady, powerful growth combined with high EBITDA margins and positive free cash flow.  This summer the company and its fiber assets were at the heart of several M&A rumors, but as we now move into autumn it seems more and more likely they will remain an independent force in the industry.  With us today to shed some light on AboveNet’s plans is Rajiv Datta, who became Chief Operating Officer in January of this year. [Read more →]

The US was off enjoying its summer-ending Labor Day weekend, but that doesn’t mean nothing happened elsewhere in the world.  Here’s a few quick-takes on some of the global news lately: [Read more →]

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

Now I’ve seen everything. A union fights for a $39 billion merger. Coming to the defense of [Read more →]

TGIF, and for those in the US have a great long weekend. A few quick bytes before you go:

Sidera Networks is taking on more OSHEAN work with an expansion of its network in [Read more →]

This week’s fiber M&A comes courtesy of Canadian MSO Cogeco, which said that it is buying MTO Telecom.  MTO operates 1500km route miles of fiber on the island of Montreal, mostly of the 432 count variety. They serve carriers, enterprises, and the public sector. I’m less familiar with metro fiber assets north of the border, and haven’t run into a map of MTO’s network or a sense of their on-net [Read more →]

In an interesting item over on the Huffington Post, union workers are claiming Verizon is denying them overtime (overtime is a right?) which they could be using for post-Irene repairs that are stacking up. Whether cost savings or payback, I found the response of Verizon’s spokesman fascinating: [Read more →]

As several readers have commented, the S-4 filing for Windstream (NYSE:WIN, news, filings) purchase of PAETEC (news, filings) is out, and it makes for some interesting reading. There was indeed another suitor, one whose offer started at $6 per share and rose as high as $6.80. But they came later to the process and without funding already in hand to refinance PAETEC’s debt load, and in the end were unable [Read more →]

Following its merger with Nortel’s MEN division Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN, news, filings) in the spring of 2010, Ciena has been working feverishly to put the combined business on a solid footing. Today they reported fiscal third quarter revenues that were on the low end of guidance at $435.3M, whereas analysts had projected the midpoint. However, they did manage to pull out positive adjusted net earnings of [Read more →]

Ok, after yesterday’s shocker from the US Department of Justice, it’s time for a quick poll. AT&T says it will challenge the DOJ in court, while various analysts are saying it’s effectively all over.  What do you think? [Read more →]

Wow, who would have thunk it. A Bloomberg report today says that the US Department of Justice is suing to stop the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.  That pretty much takes the wind out of AT&T’s offer this morning to repatriate 5000 call center jobs if the deal were approved.  Not [Read more →]