Is a Deal for Zayo Close? Very Possibly

April 12th, 2019
 

The ongoing bidding for Zayo is now said to have come down to a single consortium of investment firms. According to Reuters this week, a group led by Digital Colony Partners LP, EQT AB, and Stonepeak Infrastructure partners is the last man standing. [Read more →]

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Keeping Pace with Innovation in the Era of Digital Transformation

April 12th, 2019
 

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Rob Shore, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Infinera

While IT organizations, new business models, and the customer experience tend to dominate the digital transformation headlines, the communications infrastructure underlying digital transformation is quietly but surely undergoing a paradigm shift. This shift includes a rethinking of [Read more →]

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Thursday Bytes: Limelight, Infinera, Ericsson, DataBank

April 11th, 2019
 

Here’s a quick roundup of some news from around the world worth keeping an eye on: [Read more →]

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H2 Taps Subcom For New Pacific Cable System

April 10th, 2019
 

SubCom has been chosen by Singaporean-based H2 Cable for a new APAC cable system. Subcom’s win on this APAC deal comes after a similar project by Huawei was nixxed by Australian regulators. The price tag of the project is expected to be $380M with an expected date in 2022.  [Read more →]

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Wednesday Roundup: NJFX, FirstLight, Hawaiki, PacketFabric

April 10th, 2019
 

A few interesting bits of infrastructure to keep an eye on: [Read more →]

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China’s 5G investments may be slowing

April 10th, 2019
 

This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

While China is certain to be one of the world’s largest 5G markets and has been spending heavily to gain an early lead in 5G adoption, there are signs that 5G momentum is slowing down in the market. [Read more →]

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Tuesday Roundup: Internap, Telco Systems, PacketFabric, Juniper

April 9th, 2019
 

A few items from around the sector from the start of this week: [Read more →]

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CenturyLink to Hook Up NASA

April 9th, 2019
 

CenturyLink picked up a high profile federal contract yesterday. The network operator will be providing connectivity to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: Anova Financial Networks CEO Michael Persico

April 8th, 2019
 

The financial vertical has long been a crucial part of the infrastructure ecosystem.  The rise of ultra-low latency trading provided early opportunities for differentiation in what had been commoditized bandwidth and services after the dot com bubble.  First with fiber and then with microwave, one of the specialists that has driven innovation in this segment over the last decade is Anova Financial Networks. With us today to give his perspective on the financial networking business and Anova’s place within it is Anova’s founder and CEO, Michael Persico. [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: Colt, SES, Fibernoire, Netnod

April 5th, 2019
 

Some interesting items from around the world to end the week on: [Read more →]

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A proactive approach for prevention of order fallouts in digital service providers’ (DSPs’) order to activate lifecycle

April 5th, 2019
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Karthik R, Suseel Vadakkepet, Muthukrishnan R, and Sarvagya Nayak of Prodapt

A customer’s journey with a DSP usually starts with his intent to use or purchase a service through any of the channels. This is captured as order and enters the CRM system, which passes it to various downstream systems for fulfillment and provisioning. These orders need to traverse [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Cable ONE, Fujitsu, IdeaTek, CenturyLink

April 4th, 2019
 

A bit of M&A, two vendor deployments, and a reason not to move: [Read more →]

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Hyperscale operators to boost colocation market

April 3rd, 2019
 

This article was authored by Allan Tan, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Synergy Research Group (SRG) says hyperscale operators are the fastest growing customer category for colocation providers. For both wholesale and retail colocation, 2018 revenue from hyperscale customers grew much more rapidly than revenues from other service provider customers and from enterprises. [Read more →]

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Fiber M&A: Everstream Buys Arch Fiber Networks

April 2nd, 2019
 

Some metro fiber has changed hands out in the Midwest today. Ohio-based Everstream has returned to the dealmaking table with the announcement of the purchase of Arch Fiber Networks. [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: Hurricane Electric, EllaLink, AMS-IX, 5GN

April 2nd, 2019
 

A few items from around the world worth noting from the start of this week: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: EdgeConneX CEO Randy Brouckman

April 1st, 2019
 

When EdgeConneX first embarked on its edge data center expansion early in this decade, the idea that the edge was the next data center frontier was a new thing.  Since that time, the company’s vision has proven quite prescient and nobody doubts the importance of storage and connectivity moving closer and closer to the consumer. EdgeConneX has now built out some 40 data centers across 31 markets on three continents and is continuing to invest aggressively in its infrastructure to meet that demand.  With us today to talk about what the company is seeing in the edge data center space and where it plans to go next is CEO Randy Brouckman. [Read more →]

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Friday Roundup: FirstLight, DE-CIX, Windstream

March 29th, 2019
 

A few interesting items before everyone goes home for the weekend: [Read more →]

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Becoming an SD-DP Service Provider (Part II) – A Brief Case Study on Exponential-e, Ltd.

March 29th, 2019
 

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W. Wang

(Continued from Part I)

On the cloud end, the firm has got involved with SD data center and cloud solutions for years and has some cloud talents in house who can run and offer a private IaaS in supplement [Read more →]

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Fiber M&A: euNetworks Acquires Austria’s Onstage Online GmbH

March 28th, 2019
 

euNetworks has made an inorganic move toward the southeast. Today the pan-European network operator has announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Onstage Online GmbH, a long-established Austrian ISP with a substantial fiber footprint. [Read more →]

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Vendor Roundup: Fujitsu, Nokia, Juniper, ADVA

March 28th, 2019
 

Three wins for three vendors plus some quantum security worth a look this morning: [Read more →]

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Becoming an SD-DP Service Provider (Part I) – A Brief Case Study on Exponential-e, Ltd.

March 28th, 2019
 

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W. Wang

When I came up with the term “Software Defined Digital Platform” (SD-DP) last December in a blog post, back then it was mostly a leading thought and concept, trying to capture some industry trends shaping the next-gen IT/Networking solution and service paradigm. [Read more →]

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DataGryd Taps Hylan for Megasuite 6

March 27th, 2019
 

Another player in DataGryd’s expansion at the iconic 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel in lower Manhattan was revealed yesterday. Hylan Datacom & Electrical has won the bidding and will be building out the power infrastructure underlying the project.  [Read more →]

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Amazon Claims a Piece of HAVFRUE

March 27th, 2019
 

The Norwegian firm Bulk Infrastructure officially has an anchor customer for its piece of the HAVFRUE transatlantic cable. Amazon Web Services has signed up to use a substantial chunk of the system’s capacity. [Read more →]

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