Two bits of FTTH news from opposite ends of the spectrum, some SD-WAN, and a vendor win up north: [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: EllaLink, BSO, UFD, Digicel, Orange
September 29th, 2021
Two bits of submarine cable news, and one bit of terrestrial dark fiber news: [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Lumen, Lightpath, NJFX, 2Africa
September 28th, 2021
A few interesting items, both domestic and international to catch up with: [Read more →]
Amitié Lands in France
September 28th, 2021
Yesterday Orange offered up an update on the Amitié cable system. The 6,600km transatlantic fiber project has officially come ashore on the Gironde coast near Bordeaux. The project used horizontal directional drilling 20 meters under the beach to avoid harming the local ecosystem. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Unitas Global CTO Grant Kirkwood
September 27th, 2021
In between the worlds of cloud computing and big bandwidth lies a complicated and rapidly changing environment that many enterprises barely understand. That has created an opportunity for managed service providers to step in and make it all work. One provider that has been taking on that challenge is Unitas Global. With us today to talk about Unitas Global’s approach to serving up internet infrastructure to hungry enterprises is Founder and CTO Grant Kirkwood. Grant has been part of the internet infrastructure entrepreneurial scene since starting his own hosting company back in the 90s, and then later founding Mzima which eventually became part of GTT by way of the PacketExchange deal. [Read more →]
Friday Roundup: 11:11, STL, DZS, Frontier, Nokia
September 24th, 2021
A new company launch, a product launch, a global channel partner, and some FTTx: [Read more →]
Vendor Bytes: Ciena, ADTRAN, ADVA, Nokia, Ericsson
September 23rd, 2021
Five vendors, five customer deployments to note from this week’s news: [Read more →]
Service Providers Take Up MEF’s LSO Sonata
September 23rd, 2021
MEF’s efforts to promote automation seem to be bearing fruit. Yesterday the industry association revealed activity by a host of companies in implementing APIs from MEF 3.0 LSO Sonata. They are also now speeding additional services and programs to market in response to the demand. [Read more →]
Wednesday Roundup: UFD, COLT, BDx, DataBank, Zenlayer, Zadara
September 22nd, 2021
Some connectivity, data center, and cloud news to catch up on from this week: [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Prime, Infinera, Globe, Altice, Proximity
September 21st, 2021
Two data center buildouts, a vendor win, and a French infrastructure M&A: [Read more →]
Monday Bytes: QTS, MOX, Telxius, Ciena, Infinera, HGC, EXA
September 20th, 2021
Three interesting items of teamwork to catch up with, both domestic and international: [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight – Connected2Fiber’s Ben Edmond Charges Ahead
September 20th, 2021
As the entire infrastructure business looks to automate everything that can be automated, a new generation of cloud-based software platforms has risen up to meet those needs. Today we have a return visit from one of those pioneers, Connected2Fiber’s Founder and CEO Ben Edmond. Connected2Fiber recognized early on the intersection of location and price data was fundamental to the planning and buildout of network infrastructure, and set out to automate it before the idea was cool. Since we last talked in 2018, Connected2Fiber has seen substantial growth and the market now seems to be catching up with the original vision. [Read more →]
I Squared Completes GTT Infra Deal, EXA Is Born
September 17th, 2021
GTT’s sale of its infrastructure division is now a done deal. I Squared Capital has closed its purchase of the assets, and now we know something of their plans. They have re-launched the division under the name EXA Infrastructure. [Read more →]
How Digital Service Providers (DSPs) can Build AI-ML Capabilities to Enhance Efficiency of Technicians and Reduce MTTR by 30%
September 17th, 2021
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Boominathan S and Abhay Goyal of Prodapt
Inefficiencies in the field service are a major challenge for most Digital Service Providers (DSPs). Delay in providing fixes impacts customer experience leading to significant customer churn and revenue loss affecting profit margin for DSPs. [Read more →]
Thursday Roundup: Google, STT GDC, LOGIX, Versa, ONI
September 16th, 2021
Two bits of submarine cable news, one new data center, and some SASE in the southwest: [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: DE-CIX, phoenixNAP, Infinera, GÉANT, Nokia, NL-IX, LightEdge
September 15th, 2021
Some IX and vendor news, plus a data center M&A: [Read more →]
GlobalConnect Plans New Nordic Fiber Build
September 14th, 2021
The Northern and Western European fiber operator GlobalConnect has unveiled a major new infrastructure project through the heart of its footprint. The plans call for the deployment of a ‘mega capacity fiber cable’ stretching from the far northern Sweden down to the German capital of Berlin. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: New Lisbon, Tierpoint, Vexus, Liquid, Unitas Global
September 14th, 2021
One M&A, one new data center, three new fiber markets, and a partnership overseas: [Read more →]
KT Makes a Deal For Epsilon
September 13th, 2021
There was a bit of surprise M&A in the international interconnection world late last week. The South Korean telecommunications giant KT Corp. has announced the acquisition of Singapore-based Epsilon Telecommunications. [Read more →]
Vantage Makes 2 Deals, Expands to Asia-Pacific
September 10th, 2021
Vantage Data Centers is taking on some new territory via two acquisitions. They have announced deals for both Agile Data Centers and the data center portfolio of PCCW. Vantage’s current owners, led by DigitalBridge, are contributing the financial power for the transactions, putting another $1.5B of equity capital into Vantage. [Read more →]
Why Telecommunications Companies Need to Embrace a Single Customer View
September 10th, 2021
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Michele Szabocsik, VP of Marketing, BlueConic
Traditional telecommunications companies are at a critical crossroads. While coverage and speed are improving with investments in 5G, the rise of new mobile tech, messaging apps, and over-the-top services offered by nimbler digitally native companies have eroded legacy revenue streams and diminished subscriber growth. At the same time, the industry is struggling to [Read more →]
euNetworks Extends SuperHighway Reach to Amsterdam
September 9th, 2021
Western Europe has another path to get data between England and the Netherlands. And path may not be the right word given the amount of potential bandwidth euNetworks has built out. The western European bandwidth infrastructure provider has announced the completion of a new infrastructure project with both a subsea and terrestrial component between the two countries. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: Zella, Nokia, Infradata, Ukrtelecom, Iskratel, Sparkle
September 8th, 2021
Four expansions in four global markets, two network and two data center: [Read more →]