There are 2 firms that evaluate the top global Internet backbones: Renesys and CAIDA. In this post CAIDA compares its data against DYN’s data from 2014. (DYN owns Renessys). DYN puts out the Top 13 (Baker’s Dozen) list of top global Internet backbones (by ASN) each year. Level3, Telia, NTT, GTT, Cogent, Tata, Verizon, Telecom Italia*, Sprint, PCCW, China Telecom*,HE and XO. RAD-INFO INC can quote and provision 11 of the 13 for you. Call today!

The Dyn Research report describes the companies and their rise/fall. “AT&T (AS7018), now ranked #21, Qwest (AS209), now CenturyLink and ranked #14, and Savvis (AS3561), owned by CenturyLink since 2011, but with an AS that is still ranked #34.” Email me if you want a copy of the report. Thanks! peter at radinfo dor co

I have written about Alarm.com going back to 2005. For residential ISPs who compete against a cable company also offering home security, Alarm.com could be a partner. They have grown significantly.

SaaS and license revenue of $42.0 million for the second quarter, a 23% increase year-over-year.

Total revenue of $64.4 million for the second quarter, a 24% increase year-over-year. [alarm.com]

Comcast Says There’s 6 Million Unhappy DSL Users Left to Target is a great headline because it says it all: cable is targeting DSL – and winning. (see here).

Google Fiber, Sonic, Socket, Intelliwave and Rocket Fiber are just five of over 100 fiber to the home projects going on. BTW, consumers only respond to the term Gigabit Fiber broadband. It is about picking the right markets to construct fiber. It is also about first mover advantage (if you are the first fiber provider you can win against HFC and DSL).

Serving the Digital Divide is going to be expensive and it will require government assistance. We see it just with subsidized phone and Internet over the last 20 years.

The success or failure of these Fiber projects comes down to the basics of marketing (summed up here by Seth Godin in 4 lines.)

Some nuggets of factoids and articles.

Here’s how you end up with a bully in a position of authority at an organization: here.

“Build a team of people who work together, who care and who learn and you’ll end up with the organization you deserve. Build the opposite and you also get what you deserve.” [Seth]

Google Fiber’s pole attachment spat with AT&T, Comcast: something’s got to give [fierce]. Probably why Google bought Webpass and starting saying Wireless Fiber.

How Google Fiber Is Changing Its Strategy as Costs Grow.

DSL is losing big time. “According to research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG), major telco broadband losses are accelerating, more than doubling from a year ago. Collectively, major tier 1 and 2 telcos lost 360K broadband subscribers in 2Q16, compared with 150K in 2Q15. Compare that with major cable broadband net adds of 553K in 2Q16.” [telecompetitor]

Fatbeam in Idaho “won 11 FCC E-rate contracts, which will help fund the construction of an additional 200 miles of fiber.” [telecomp]

Lightower is for sale. Either Level3 or Zayo buying. Maybe.

Verizon is even losing ground in Ethernet sales (as it buys AOL, Yahoo, and sells off wireline assets.) The New Charter (combined TWC-Charter-BrightHouse) is now third in Ethernet according to VSG.

A little something about CHURN.

Headlines and email subject lines are IMPORTANT!!! I suck at both. I think I have good, relevant info and stories, but it the headline and subject line that either make people read or pass on it. Here is some data on Headlines.

Seth Godin writes, “On the other hand, moving all your data to the cloud, or staying at an Airbnb, these are new decisions, new ways of being in the world. Trying to get a book publisher to fund your magazine or your web app might make sense to you, but without the benefit of a pattern to match, the publisher who has built a career around one pattern might get cold feet.”

We buy what we know. That’s why selling replacement products for less money has worked so well. Until now.

This is why selling Hosted PBX/UCaaS is so difficuly: You have to sell Change! No one likes change. Not even you.