A few news items from midweek worth keeping up with: [Read more →]
Netrality Buys Internap’s Houston Colo
June 3rd, 2020
Some data center space changed hands down in Texas yesterday. Netrality Data Centers has acquired Internap’s colo facilities at 1301 Fannin Street down in Houston. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Comcast Business, Clearfield, Velocix, TDS
June 2nd, 2020
Two new products and a rollout from some tech from a familiar name: [Read more →]
FirstLight Buys Fiber from DFT
June 1st, 2020
FirstLight has found another inorganic way to expand its network in the northeastern USA. Today they announced a definitive agreement to acquire certain fiber assets of DFT Communications. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Hylan’s Joe Cecin Talks Infrastructure & the Pandemic
June 1st, 2020
Internet infrastructure is essential to modern society, so there may be a pandemic but the trucks are still rolling, fiber and radios are still being deployed, and bandwidth demands are going nowhere but up. That means engineering and construction firms like Hylan have been busy despite it all. With us today is Hylan Group CEO Joe Cecin to talk about what they’re seeing out there both on their side of things and around the ecosystem. Joe joined the company in 2018, and took on his current role last year. [Read more →]
5G Accelerates Edge Buildout
May 29th, 2020
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Kurt Michel, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Veea
Prior to the pandemic, the primary drivers of 5G were mobile broadband and the Internet-of-Things (IoT). IoT continues to fuel a need for massive device connectivity and data growth. However, with the pandemic, the demand for 5G solutions is accelerating. Both businesses and consumers want [Read more →]
Network Bytes: Sparkle, Hurricane Electric, Crosslake, 165Halsey, Zayo
May 28th, 2020
Three network expansion items, and some government contract news from across the pond: [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes, Bytes: Infinera, AAE-1, QTS, Eurofiber, Quortus, Greenhouse
May 27th, 2020
A few interesting items from around the world to keep up with at midweek: [Read more →]
GTT’s Calder to Step Down
May 27th, 2020
Rick Calder is stepping down as CEO of GTT Communications next week after 13 years of leading the company. The company has begun a search for a replacement while putting in place a leadership group to run the company in the interim. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Q Advisors’ Dmitry Netis Talks Cloud Native
May 26th, 2020
The worlds of cloud computing and of telecom and internet infrastructure are increasingly becoming integrated with each other. Hence, trends like that of cloud native computing are quickly impinging on not just on applications that get delivered over internet infrastructure, but also on how that infrastructure is operated and maintained. With us today to delve into those ideas is Dmitry Netis, Q Advisors’ Managing Director, Business Development. Q Advisors specializes in M&A in the TMT space, but especially when it comes to the smaller, innovative technology players that are looking to shake things up. [Read more →]
Segra Expands in North Carolina With NorthState Buy
May 22nd, 2020
Apparently I missed this one when it first came through, but better late than never! This week Segra completed an M&A down in North Carolina, acquiring longtime regional service provider NorthState. [Read more →]
Leveraging data-driven inventory wizard to arrest 90% of errors at the source
May 22nd, 2020
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Arco Versluis and Sathya Narayanan of Prodapt
Digital Service Provider’s (DSP’s) inventory data consisting of their assets and services is very critical to their operations. These assets grow every day making it more difficult to manage. Almost all the DSPs manually register their inventories once [Read more →]
Thusday Roundup: GPX, Alianza, Horizon, Bluebird, Digicel
May 21st, 2020
Two from abroad, and two from the Midwest to keep up with: [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: CenturyLink, Colt, DE-CIX, Netnod, ADVA
May 20th, 2020
Some metro fiber, a new CEO, an interconnection of IXs, and some cloud security: [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Megaport, EdgeConneX, ExteNet, RTO, IX Reach, KevlinX, ServerFarm, Salute Mission Critical
May 19th, 2020
That’s a long title, which is the result of four interesting partnership announcements and expansions, and hence eight companies working on things we should keep up with: [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Enxoo’s Artur Ostrowski
May 18th, 2020
One corner of the industry that I don’t spend much time on but which is critical to the operations of everyone in the sector is OSS/BSS software and systems. But as automation continues to reach deeper into everyone’s systems, it’s a subject that needs a bigger voice. With us today to delve a little deeper is Artur Ostrowski, CCO of Enxoo. Enxoo uses a Salesforce-based platform to target telco-specific needs for OSS/BSS. [Read more →]
2Africa to Encircle the Continent With a New Submarine Cable
May 15th, 2020
In the past, when one built a submarine cable to serve African destinations, the first question others would ask about your project was ‘east or west?’ It was nearly always one or the other of course, but not this time. Yesterday, a high powered group of global tech and telecom operators announced plans to build 2Africa, which will do both, starting and ending in Europe. [Read more →]
Microsoft Takes Out Metaswitch
May 15th, 2020
The idea of one of the tech giants taking on telecommunications in a big way has always been an interesting ‘what if’ scenario, and occasionally some small piece of it happens. Yesterday was one of those days, as Microsoft announced a definitive agreement to buy Metaswitch Networks. [Read more →]
Thursday Roundup: ExteNet, GTT, Silver Peak, Colt, Arista, WiTCOM, ADVA, 6WIND
May 14th, 2020
A few deployments and upgrades to keep an eye on: [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: STI, Crosslink Fiber, Element Critical, EdgeMicro, IEIC
May 13th, 2020
Here’s a set of mid-week quick takes: [Read more →]
South Reach Acquires Resurgence’s Florida Fiber & Colo
May 13th, 2020
Some intercity fiber has changed hands down in the southeastern US. South Reach Networks has made an inorganic move, buying the fiber and colo assets of Resurgence Infrastructure Group. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Uniti, NJFX, Cogent, Ciena, Telia, INAP
May 12th, 2020
Here are a few interesting bits of news from the start of the week worth noting quickly: [Read more →]
Jobs Roundup: Colo Atl, DC BLOX, Southern Telecom, Epsilon, Chayora, Summit Broadband
May 11th, 2020
We may all have been sheltering in place, but last week there were a whole lot of folks from this sector taking on new jobs, particularly in the southeastern US. Here’s a quick rundown of what some familiar faces have been up to: [Read more →]