Telecom Ramblings

Time for a quick look around the sector’s news from the first half of the week.  Here are three items from vendors, and one from BK court: [Read more →]

Amid all the pandemic-related economic disruption out there has been a meteoric rise in the unemployment rate. The perception is that this is mostly due to hourly and contract workers in ‘non-essential’ industries. But here in telecommunications and internet infrastructure, which is pretty much holding the world together right now, we’re safe… right? Yesterday,  Dish Network offered an opinion to the contrary. [Read more →]

Today’s networks depend on software more than ever, and because of that we have seen the big networking vendors invest heavily in their software divisions.  The rollout of 5G infrastructure underway, and along with the fiber and spectrum and hardware requires a whole lot of software to make it all work the way it has been promised.  Nokia Software is one of the organizations behind much of that software.  With us today to talk about Nokia Software’s approach to this brave new world and his viewpoint on what is to come is Nokia Software’s CTO, Ron Haberman. [Read more →]

I managed to miss this one from earlier this week, but better late than never, right? Vantage Data Centers has made an inorganic move over in the UK. On Tuesday they announced a definitive agreement to acquire Next Generation Data. [Read more →]

It’s difficult to filter the news these days without going too far down the rabbit hole of coronavirus.  I mean, that’s news obviously but other people do that part far better.  But nevertheless, here goes another quick survey of things going on in the telecom and internet infrastructure space – two driven by the pandemic and one determinedly forging ahead despite them. [Read more →]

A few expansions and contract wins from around the globe to catch up with: [Read more →]

The pandemic continues, but so does telecom and internet infrastructure.  Here are a few items from the start of this week to keep up with: [Read more →]

That there are actually coronavirus conspiracy theories out there that are being taken seriously by way too many isn’t really news. But that one of them involves telecommunications, meaning that we caused it, well that got my attention yesterday. [Read more →]

Data centers and the cloud sit at the heart of modern infrastructure, and thus are a natural focus when it comes to discussions about security.  With us today to share his perspective is DataBank’s Chief Information Security Officer Mark Houpt.  Mark accompanied a delegation led by the Kansas City Tech Council to a TECNA DC Fly-in event in Washington DC in early February, before COVID-19 shut down much of the country.  They were there to provide input on the development of privacy legislation for the US that would take aim at similar issues as Europe’s GDPR, as well as to discuss top security concerns that today’s internet infrastructure faces. Also included in this Industry Spotlight are his thoughts on the pandemic as it relates to cybersecurity. [Read more →]

Tofane Global has found itself another consolidation opportunity. Yesterday they announced a deal to acquire NOS International Carrier Services. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Phill Lawson-Shanks, Chief Innovation Officer, Aligned Energy

Although David McCrory introduced the concept more than a decade ago, what the software engineer and managing partner at Data Centric Strategies described as “data gravity” has taken on considerably more significance in recent years. [Read more →]

Here are a few quick takes worth noting, both pandemic-related and not: [Read more →]

After winning in court a couple months back, nothing was going to stop T-Mobile from polishing off its purchase of Sprint. So pandemic or no pandemic, the deal was officially closed today and where there were 4 there are now 3 – at least until Dish follows through. [Read more →]

Just when you think all the FCC does is have meetings and tell others what they can and can’t do, they come up with some actual money. In the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the FCC under chairman Ajit Pai has announced a $200M plan for Telehealth support. [Read more →]

It’s more than a little chaotic out there, here’s a few infrastructure items sifted out of the chaos to make note of: [Read more →]

For over a decade after the dotcom bubble the infrastructure sector undertook almost no new intercity fiber buildout projects, but in the last 5-10 years that has slowly changed.  New players in the sector have driven that change, some very publicly and some very quietly.  One of the quiet ones has been MOX Networks, which has flown largely under the radar since 2013.  But at PTC and Metro Connect the company stepped out of the shadows and started telling people what they are up to.  With us today to talk about MOX Networks’ approach to building fiber and give his views on the dark fiber business as a whole is President & COO, Justin Melnikoff. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Amy Fredj, Product Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Software at Nokia

The advent of the cloud has suddenly made technology available to the masses by offering an efficient and cost-effective way to access information. Consumers can now [Read more →]

I hope everyone hasn’t gone stir crazy in lockdown yet.  Here are four quick internet infrastructure updates worth keeping an eye on from four different continents: [Read more →]

According to reports, Facebook is considering buying its way into the Indian telecommunications market. They are supposedly close to a deal for 10% of Reliance Jio, although current coronavirus-related travel issues are slowing things down. [Read more →]

A metro fiber recap, a new partner/investor, and an MSO network upgrade: [Read more →]

The coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate everything, which means that non-pandemic news is going to be a bit thin for a while.  C’est la vie, here are a few of the more interesting bits from over the weekend: [Read more →]

The demand for bandwidth due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is definitely stretching global internet infrastructure a bit. Both YouTube and Netflix have now agreed to reduce streaming quality in an effort to not overload European capacity. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prodapt

An accurate inventory of assets and services is the cornerstone for any digital service provider. Yet, Digital Service Providers (DSPs) face several challenges in managing the completeness and accuracy of inventory data. Most of the cases, a DSP’s physical and logical network inventory are often 20-30% out of sync. [Read more →]