Telecom Ramblings

Several interesting expansion and partnership items from around the sector at midweek: [Read more →]

It seems there will be some more consolidation in the data center space this fall. Sungard AS announced yesterday that it has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with 365 Data Centers that will see the latter acquire ‘the majority of its U.S. Colocation and Network business’. [Read more →]

Lumen’s divestiture of its Latin American operations to Stonepeak is officially complete, and with that we have the launch of a new operator. Stonepeak has rebranded the business as Cirion and named Lumen’s now-former LATAM Regional President, Facundo Castro, as CEO. [Read more →]

The metro fiber business has been fascinating to watch over the last decade and a half, as the opportunities in the marketplace shift around.  At various points, it has been about data centers, enterprises, and towers, but of late, we have seen FTTH stepping to the front.  One rising company with FTTH and SME plans built on top of an existing deep metro fiber footprint is Ezee Fiber, which operates an extensive footprint in the Houston metro area with the backing of I Squared Capital.   With us today to look at Ezee Fiber’s plans in Houston and beyond is CEO Scott Widham.  We last interviewed Scott when he was leading Alpheus Communications back in 2015. [Read more →]

Four interesting items from Europe to catch up with before we all go home for the weekend, including a bit of M&A, a new JV, a new data center, and some SD-WAN. [Read more →]

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

Operators in Saudi Arabia and Greece are teaming up for a new subsea cable project between Europe and the Middle East. The project is led by STC’s MENA HUB and the telecoms and satellite applications company TTSA and is being called EMC, or “East to Med data Corridor”. Also part of the project are Greece’s power utility PPC and the Cyprus operator CYTA. [Read more →]

A new enterprise customer, a new data center campus, some wireless for a sports venue, and some balance sheet work. [Read more →]

In a move I didn’t expect, but perhaps should have, a significant metro fiber M&A was announced this morning. BAI Communications has agreed to acquire the New York/New Jersey fiber operator ZenFi Networks. [Read more →]

The FTTH space continues to see new entrants sprouting up in underserved areas. Late last week out in the Midwest the latest effort took shape with the launch of Omni Fiber by Oak Hill Capital. [Read more →]

Some data center projects, an FTTH provider creation, and the closing of a key acquisition: [Read more →]

Two network operators add in some subsea capacity, and two data center infrastructure operators kick off some major expansion work: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Manoj Krishna Mohan, Manager, Salesforce Practice, Prodapt Solutions

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Quantum Loophole is getting into the fiber business by building a loop of its own, or more accurately a metro fiber ring. To complement the company’s planned 2,100+ acre Quantum Frederick site in Maryland, they have broken ground on a 43-mile hyperscale fiber project. [Read more →]

NEC today revealed it has been chosen to build out one of the latest projects in transpacific connectivity. Seren Juno Network Co. Ltd has picked the Japanese giant to handle the heavy lifting on its planned JUNO cable system. [Read more →]

In a significant federal contract victory, Verizon yesterday announced a new contract with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Verizon Public Sector was awarded an Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task order to modernize and expand the FBI’s network infrastructure and the data and voice solutions that run upon it. [Read more →]

A new terrestrial route, a subsea route, a new investor, and a new interconnection option: [Read more →]

One of the states that has traditionally gotten the least infrastructure love, at least in the media, is certainly New Mexico.  With Tier 1 markets to the west in Phoenix, the north in Denver, and to the east in the DASH triangle, one rarely hears from Albuquerque and Santa Fe etc.  But that doesn’t mean there isn’t fiber out there, and recently a new state-wide network operator was born: New Mexico Fiber LLC.  Built from the combined assets of local RLECs and ISPs, NM Fiber is looking to take its case to the broader market.  With us today to talk about the company’s plans is chairman Glenn Lovelace. [Read more →]

Four FTTH expansion projects across three states to keep up with as we close out this week in mid-July: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Andrés Irlando, President of Zayo Group

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a shift online. Some businesses adopted digital tools for the first time, while many others significantly increased their reliance on technology. [Read more →]

A metro expansion, a couple of technology partnerships in the data center space, and a private wireless network deployment: [Read more →]

A few bits of news from around the industry at midweek: [Read more →]

Lumen Technologies revealed plans to expand its edge computing platform into Europe yesterday. The investment will give Lumen a greater footprint with which to power applications and other workloads closer to users. [Read more →]