DoD Hands Qwest $100M Contract

April 1st, 2011
 

Just as the company is about to complete its merger with CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL, news, filings), q picked up a big win in the government sector.  DISA/DITCO, which handles this sort of thing for the Department of Defense, has awarded the company a contract that could be worth in excess of $100M for IP services.  Under the deal, Qwest’s Governemt Services group will be the sole provider for the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and other agencies.  [Read more →]

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Sidera Also Gets A Piece of OSHEAN Buildout

March 31st, 2011
 

Yesterday we saw Cox Business land the contract for a large fiber buildout in Rhode Island for OSHEAN, but apparently Sidera Networks also won some business for the project.  Sidera, which used to go by the name RCN Metro, will be handling part of the buildout across the border into Massachussets.  Specifically, they will help bring fiber to universities in Bristol County, which is that part of Massachusetts along [Read more →]

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Google Finally Makes Its Pick

March 31st, 2011
 

And the winner is…. Kansas City!?  Yep, the lucky winner of Google’s Gigabit FTTH project is Kansas City, Kansas.  Nope, not the one accross the river in Missouri that has 2.1M people as well as its very own NFL team.  It’s the one with just 145,786 people according to the 2010 census, and is only the third largest city in the Kansas City metro area.  A cynic might suggest that [Read more →]

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Dell, Equinix, and Rackspace Team Up For OpenStack Launch

March 30th, 2011
 

Three technology and data giants, Dell, Equinix, and Rackspace, teamed up today for the launch of an OpenStack cloud demonstration and test environment.  OpenStack is a collection of open source tech for scalable public and private clouds that was originally founded by RackSpace and NASA.  The geographically dispersed demo and test environment will help speed the deployment of OpenStack proof of concepts. [Read more →]

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Verizon to Deploy 100G in the USA

March 30th, 2011
 

Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) is bringing its European 100G experience back across the Atlantic.  Today they have announced plans to deploy the latest technology on selected segments of their US backbone by the end of Q2.  The lucky routes include Chicago to New York, Sacramento to Los Angeles, and Minneapolis to Kansas City.  Really, they need 100G on a north south route across the great plains?  Not exactly your usual bottleneck there, but hey what do I know.  Perhaps the key there isn’t overwhelming traffic, but rather a route on which they are comparatively [Read more →]

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Interoute Bags a Pelikan

March 30th, 2011
 

Pan-European service provider Interoute continued its cloud offensive today by nabbing German-based stationer Pelikan as a client.  Pelikan has been selling stationary, pens, and pencils since before Otto von Bismarck unified the country – 172 years according to their PR.  But that long history isn’t holding them in the past, as this upgrade involves moving their IT infrastructure into the clouds. [Read more →]

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Cox Wins Fiber Build in the Ocean State

March 29th, 2011
 

Cox Business has won a large regional and metro fiber buildout in the state of Rhode Island.  The fiber buildout derives from the $21.7M BTOP award won by OSHEAN last year – OSHEAN is the state’s research and education nonprofit networking entity.  The buildout will take 48-strand cable through some 350 route miles and pass through 38 of 39 of the largest cities in the state.  Here’s a quick map: [Read more →]

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CFN To Spread Spread’s Waves

March 29th, 2011
 

Financial bandwidth upstart Spread Networks (news) added another reseller to its portfolio today.  Managed service provider CFN Services will be offering the company’s low latency wavelengths to the financial community, effective immediately.  Spread just announced a reduction in the latency of those waves, down to 14.6ms (14.75ms SLA’d), and I noted yesterday that [Read more →]

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Cisco To Acquire newScale

March 29th, 2011
 

Fresh off the announcement of its first ever dividend, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO, news, filings) is going on the M&A warpath again.  This time the target is privately held software provider newScale.  The California-based newScale’s products deliver a service catalog and portal for IT organizations to deploy cloud services.  Cisco will use the technology to fill out its cloud portfolio, giving it more depth in what it can sell to enterprises.  Having a ready-made self service portal makes sense in that capacity, and buying an existing [Read more →]

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Surprise Surprise, Sprint Objects to AT&T/T-Mobile Deal

March 29th, 2011
 

As if there were any doubt about Sprint’s feelings on the subject, Sprint has formally announced its opposition to the purchase:

AT&T and Verizon are already by far the largest wireless providers. If approved, the proposed acquisition would create a combined company that would be almost three times the size of Sprint in terms of wireless revenue and would entrench AT&T’s and Verizon’s duopoly control over the wireless market. The wireless industry moving forward would be dominated overwhelmingly by two vertically integrated companies with unprecedented control over the U.S. wireless post-paid market, as well as the availability and price of key inputs, such as backhaul and access needed by other wireless companies to compete.

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Fiber For Earthquake Prevention?

March 28th, 2011
 

There’s this interesting article out of Taiwan today detailing an unorthodox use for submarine fiber, though I think they got the terminology wrong.  At least, I don’t think one can prevent earthquakes with optical fiber, not even with the latest equipment!  Early warning of earthquakes and tsunami though, that makes sense and it appears to be what they are doing. [Read more →]

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Spread Networks Lowers Latency Again On Its Waves

March 28th, 2011
 

Upstart intercity financial network operator Spread Networks (news) has taken out the hedge clippers again, cutting another millisecond off of its low latency wavelength offering between the New York and Chicago metro areas.  The new SLA’d number is 14.75ms, down from the 15.75ms they have been touting over the last six months, with measured performance of 14.6ms.  The new number applies to all four [Read more →]

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Euro Roundup 3-28: Interoute, VTLWaveNet, Telekom Sjrbija

March 28th, 2011
 

Several more items from across the Atlantic to start the week:

European network operator Interoute added another notch to its belt, winning a deal to enhance the VPN network of EuroSport. The pan-european TV channel will see its 12 site MPLS network expand to 20 sites with better QoS and twice the capacity, all for a similar budget. Can’t argue [Read more →]

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Savvis’s G-Cloud Descends on UK

March 28th, 2011
 

As if it weren’t foggy enough in London, Savvis (news, filings) [a subsidiary of CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL, news, filings)] this morning took its cloud services to the whole government sector in the UK with their Government Wide Service platform.  Aimed at what has been called the ‘G-Cloud’, Savvis’s offering is designed to supply a pre-built, accredited platform that eliminates upfront capital costs and reduces deployment time.  The GWS had already been powering the UK Home Office, but they have a second taker already. [Read more →]

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Hey Buddy, Can You Spare an IPv4 Address?

March 25th, 2011
 

Ok, it’s not that bad yet, but MicroSoft just spent money to acquire a pile of IP addresses from the remnants of the Nortel bankruptcy.  Now that ICANN is out of addresses to give out, it is only a matter of time before market forces determine just what one is worth.  MicroSoft paid $7.5M for 666,624 addresses, which means the first volley sets the value at $11.25 each.  But it was opportunistic, surely they didn’t need it?  Interestingly, if such a value becomes a liquidly tradeable item, then the total value of its market is known.  There are 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses, so at $11.25 each the entire supply would be worth [Read more →]

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Poll: SHOULD the FCC or DOJ Approve the AT&T/T-MobileUSA Deal?

March 25th, 2011
 

In a poll on Monday, I asked whether the FCC and DOJ would approve the AT&T/T-Mobile USA deal.  A majority of readers said yes.  But as one commenter noted, that’s not the only question to ask here.  After all, many of us are a tad cynical when it comes to the goings on in DC.  Now that some of the dust has settled, instead of asking what they will do let’s now ask what they should do: [Read more →]

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Legere to Run 7th Marathon For the Fight Against Cancer

March 25th, 2011
 

As it’s Friday, let’s take a bit of a break from the string of technology and corporate progress, and recognize a philanthropic effort from within our own ranks.  On April 18, Global Crossing’s John Legere plans to make his seventh run in the Boston Marathon as part of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge Team, which raises money to help fight humanity’s long running battle with cancer.  Proceeds go to [Read more →]

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Euro Roundup 3-24: euNetworks, InterXion, Level3

March 24th, 2011
 

A quick look at recent news across the Atlantic:

euNetworks (news) and MESH GmbH have partnered up to deliver cloud services to the enterprise.  euNetworks obviously brings its metro and intercity fiber to the table, which will add high bandwidth connectivity to MESH’s IaaS platform for both private and hybrid clouds. A strong network is essential to any [Read more →]

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GlobeNet Completes Upgrade, Heads Up the Amazon

March 24th, 2011
 

GlobeNet, the international arm of the Brazilian giant Oi, has completed its upgrade of its submarine cable systems connecting the Americas.  The extra 200Gbps gives them 560Gbps in all, and positions them for the growing bandwidth demands between the two continents.  They also claim the lowest latency paths between New York and the Brazilian financial center of Sao Paolo, a benefit of the cable route that makes the trip via Bermuda down to [Read more →]

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Partners Lining Up For LightSquared

March 24th, 2011
 

They may not actually have a wholesale LTE network in place yet and the AT&T/T-Mobile deal surely didn’t help its cause much, but LightSquared has been making progress lately nonetheless.  On Monday, Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP, news, filings) signed on for LTE roaming, and yesterday it was the consumer electronics retailier Best Buy throwing its weight behind their wholesale plan.  Earlier this month, [Read more →]

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i/o Opens Monster Modular Data Center in New Jersey

March 23rd, 2011
 

Phoenix-bound no longer, i/o Data Centers has opened a huge new facility on the east coast.  It is located in the former New York Times plant at Exit 10 off the New Jersey Turnpike in Edison, which spans 830,000 square feet.  That much space would take a long time to build out, but this is i/o’s new modular showcase and the first modules are already ready to go.  They build the modules on demand in Phoenix at their ‘factory’ and shipping them over via tractor trailer.  [Read more →]

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Sprint Ain’t Dead Yet

March 23rd, 2011
 

You know, I’m getting a bit sick of reading about how the AT&T/T-Mobile deal is going to single-handedly kill Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S, news, filings).  You know, the ones where it sounds as if Verizon doesn’t stoop to buying them by next month then the ground will open up beneath their feet, swallow them whole, and belch out pieces of shredded Clearwire.  Yeah, those.  So I just have to say something. [Read more →]

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360Networks Pumps Up the Metro With Fiber From Zayo

March 23rd, 2011
 

Western regional operator 360networks is adding some more metro fiber to its diet, courtesy of Zayo Group (news, filings).  The two companies formalized a strategic relationship under which Zayo Fiber Solutions will provide metro dark fiber connectivity, which 360Networks will use to expand its local reach in support of its transport and IP business.  [Read more →]

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