Telecom Ramblings

Western regional fiber operator 360Networks is helping California CLEC power TelePacific power its expansion efforts in the northern California town of Chico.  360Networks has upgraded one of its regeneration huts into a POP in order to deploy capacity into the city, which lies [Read more →]

International network operator glbc won a substantial bandwidth expansion over at privately held cloud and hosting provider SoftLayer.  They have deployed 14 new 10Gbps dedicated internet access ports for the company to help meet demand for virtual data center connectivity.  [Read more →]

Rumors that Limelight Networks (NASDAQ:LLNW, news, filings) was talking M&A turned into reality this morning, but not in the direction of its CDN – yet anyway. Limelight is selling its EyeWonder business to DG, formerly DG FastChannel, which specializes in ad delivery across a variety of media.  The purchase of EyeWonder will give DG a greater [Read more →]

Making data centers environmentally friendly has been an rapidly rising theme in both the US and Europe over the past year or two.  Today Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) took a solid swing at decreasing its carbon footprint, announcing that two of its colocation facilities in London and one across the English Channel in Amsterdam are now 100% powered by [Read more →]

Orange Business, the international arm of France Telecom, announced a major initiative in Latin America.  They will be increasing capacity across their network by a factor of ten, none of this incremental stuff for Orange I guess.  The whole region has [Read more →]

Even as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO, news, filings) is busy with the hard part of its slimming down program, they are still out there buying companies.  Earlier this summer, they announced a downsizing of 6,500 employees as part of a $1B savings program aimed at turning the company around after its recent bouts with M&A indigestion.  [Read more →]

So Irene was bad, but not *that* bad and hence time to get back to work.  A quick look at a few metro fiber-related items: [Read more →]

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Last week, the East Coast of the United States was rocked with a 5.8 magnitude earthquake and that was soon followed by Hurricane Irene, in what seems to represent a unique historic pairing.  Such a combination of natural disasters, in a very short period of time, has never happened before. [Read more →]

Seems like every weekend there’s another job posted on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board. This week, it’s none other than newly private XO Communications which is looking for Senior Major Account Executives in downtown Chicago and in nearby Oakbrook.  I’m watching XO curiously to see if the new ownership situation results in a change in the company’s fortunes operationally, and if they’re hiring then that would seem to be a pretty good sign.  [Read more →]

Yesterday, the FCC asked AT&T for more information about the why it needs T-Mobile USA so badly.  This followed the ‘accidental’ posting of an un-redacted document of a couple weeks ago detailing AT&T’s decision not to spend $3.8B to expand its LTE network to reach 97% of the population from the 80% currently anticipated.  That shot an obvious logical hole [Read more →]

Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) is still tweaking its cloud services lineup following the purchase and integration of the Terremark assets earlier this year.  Yesterday they announced a small M&A, purchasing CloudSwitch, a privately held cloud software company.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed, meaning that the numbers aren’t [Read more →]

According to this S-1 filed this week, video softward and cloud services provider Brightcove is preparing for an IPO in the first half of 2012.  The offering would raise something like $50M, which Ryan Lawler describes over on GigaOm as modest compared to the once lofty expectations we all had for video in general not so long ago.   [Read more →]

Not the employment kind of jobs – though those are getting scarce too, but the Steve kind of Jobs.  That’s the big news, the man who built Apple with his bare hands and brute force of will *twice* has stepped down as CEO of the company.  He did not give many details, but few doubt it is anything other than the health reasons that have seen him drop out of sight for several periods of time.  It’s the end of an era for many sectors, and because of the impact of the iPhone and iPad, telecommunications is one of them. [Read more →]

zColo, the colo and interconnection division Zayo Group (news, filings), is entering the Pittsburgh market – marking their sixth territorial expansion of the year.  They will be offering services out of a new Meet-Me-Room located within the carrier hotel at 2500 Allegheny Center Mall.  The expansion brings zColo’s footprint to more [Read more →]

According to reports, Reliance Globalcom has upgraded its FNAL cable via 40G coherent technology from Ciena.  That’s the North Asia Loop, connecting Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan of course.  The upgrade also brings 10G LAN PHY interfaces to their portfolio.  Reliance Globalcom has been kind of quiet this year, following last year’s rumors of [Read more →]

Yesterday, the east coast got a small taste of an event it usually associates with the other side of the continent.  An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the eastern seaboard, with an epicenter in the state of Virginia to the northwest of Richmond.  That puts it close enough to the major datacenter market in the northern part of the state to have rattled a few racks and cabinets, not to mention cell towers.  While it wasn’t a very big quake next to the monsters that have [Read more →]

I’ll be traveling today, so if I miss any big news while in transit – I will get to it on the flip side.  In the meantime, here’s a roundup of a few interesting items lately: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Tony Poulos, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

First it was unrest in the Middle East, then riots in the UK, now it’s reaching that bastion of free speech and human rights, the USA. I am referring here to the relatively new concept of shutting down telecommunications service at the whim of government on the slightest hint of political or social unrest. [Read more →]

The once sleepy world of Kiwi bandwidth has been a bit of a soap opera lately, as the new Pacific Fibre project plans to upset the balance of connectivity.  Yesterday, Vodafone’s New Zealand subsidiary jumped ship at Southern Cross and confirmed plans to move all its international capacity to the new cable by 2014.  Vodafone’s NZ bandwidth needs are estimated to be [Read more →]

Two small M&A deals this morning. [Read more →]

FiberLight (news) won a key contract in the suburbs north of Atlanta on Friday.  The fiber builder and operator is providing a new dark fiber network for the City of Roswell, connecting all municipal buildings including park facilities, fire stations, police station, water management systems, and transportation.  FiberLight’s Atlanta metro network has long had a presence up through Roswell to [Read more →]

On Tuesday, striking Verizon workers will go back on the job, as unions say that they and Verizon have agreed on ‘how to conduct bargaining’.  What that does not mean is that anyone has agreed to a contract or that any of the big issues have been decided at all, just that they’ve agreed on the structure of how to talk about them.  If that sounds less than final, well, it is.

It’s been a great summer on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board, where it’s been a rare week where we didn’t have a half dozen active postings.  This week we have two new ones, posted by the Northwest Open Access Network (Noanet) and by Unite Private Networks.  [Read more →]