Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Bill Major, CEO of FiberLight

The AI race is usually framed around who has the best models, the most advanced chips, or the deepest pockets to build data centers. Those things matter. But for those of us building the infrastructure behind AI, there’s another piece of the equation we can’t afford to overlook: the network connecting it all. [Read more →]

Some financing, some federal funding, and some nextgen technology prep: [Read more →]

Two bits of interconnection and partnership news, one from Europe and one from southeast Asia: [Read more →]

Three bits of interesting infrastructure development from EMEA. [Read more →]

This Tales From the Field article was contributed by Daniel Cáceres, PMP

What a remote network outage revealed about infrastructure monitoring, residual risk, and the physical conditions supporting a telecom asset [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Alison White, Head of Voice at Epsilon Telecommunications

Cloud and AI adoption is expanding the role of voice within business communications. These technologies are creating new opportunities for service providers to deliver more connected and intelligent customer experiences. Juniper Research forecasts that the global CPaaS market will grow by 60% between 2025 and 2029, reaching $48.1 billion. At the same time, AI automation is expanding the ways businesses can use voice, particularly for [Read more →]

A significant chunk of modern metro fiber is changing hands in the New York/New Jersey metro area. Today Pilot Fiber and Boldyn Networks have agreed to a transaction that will see Pilot take over Boldyn’s enterprise fiber footprint across the region. [Read more →]

Resilience, channel, and subsea: [Read more →]

A partnership expansion, some intercity momentum, and a bit of M&A: [Read more →]

The economics of fixed wireless access have always been a story of two costs: the cost of reaching a subscriber, and the cost of serving one once reached. Fiber dominates the first conversation — trenching, permitting, and a per-home-passed bill that runs into the hundreds or thousands of dollars per location. FWA’s enduring pitch has been that it collapses the “reach” cost by spending spectrum instead of construction. What has quietly held FWA back in the places where it matters most is [Read more →]

A partnership, a buildout completion, and some AI agent news: [Read more →]

One partnership down under, two interesting deals from wholesale voice, and an interesting bit of M&A: [Read more →]

Four interesting items from EMEA to catch up with: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Daria Batrakova, Director, Telecom Solutions, FNT Software  and Mark Gibson, Head of Product, Inmanta

Private 5G networks are moving from individual deployments toward a broader opportunity for communications service providers (CSPs). Enterprises across industries are looking for connectivity that can meet demanding requirements around latency, security, availability, and compliance. For CSPs, however, scaling these deployments [Read more →]

Some fiber, some AI, some nextgen gear, and some interconnection: [Read more →]

Three expansion projects and an upgrade from around the world: [Read more →]

Three data center bytes and one bit of fiber M&A news: [Read more →]

Fiber, vendor, and subsea news to catch up with: [Read more →]

A range of network rollout, upgrade, and trial activity from around the industry and the world to catch up with: [Read more →]

Some subsea expansion, an IX project, a new AI security launch, and some new $ going into AI digital infrastructure. [Read more →]

Some subsea, some private wireless, some data center, and some AI: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Pino G. Dicorato, Solution Marketing for Nokia’s Network Infrastructure optical network automation environment portfolio at Nokia.

By: Pino G. Dicorato Optical networks are carrying higher volumes of AI traffic and facing stricter demand around service availability, time-to-market pressure, and operational cost control expectations. Providers are also pushing optical infrastructure deeper into metro locations to support optimized performance and lower latencies for the rich data traffic associated with AI inferencing. [Read more →]

Three interesting infrastructure projects on three continents, one longhaul, one metro, and one campus: [Read more →]