A few news items worth noting, one from the world of politics and two featuring data centers getting additional connectivity. [Read more →]
Network M&A: IRIDEOS Buys Enter
June 18th, 2018

Italy’s newest infrastructure player has made another consolidation move. IRIDEOS today announced the acquisition of Enter. [Read more →]
AT&T, Time Warner Deal is Done
June 15th, 2018
Well, they certainly wasted no time. Two days after a federal judge nixed the federal government’s objections to the deal, AT&T has completed its acquisition of Time Warner. [Read more →]
Online Charging Systems (OCS) operations: Considerations for improving agility and efficiency
June 15th, 2018
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prodapt
As per Gartner report titled “The Gartner scenario for Communications Service Providers: Routes to the future,” digital/adjacent market services like Pay TV, VOD, M2M communications, and data-only connections will be contributing towards revenue growth [Read more →]
Thursday Bytes: CenturyLink, Digital Realty, Zayo, Frontier
June 14th, 2018
A few quick takes for the day: two new data centers, some colo for webscale, and an Ethernet partnership. [Read more →]
Comcast Outbids Disney for Fox
June 14th, 2018
The ink isn’t even dry on the judge’s decision rejecting the federal government’s suit to stop the AT&T/Time Warner Deal, and Comcast has already made its move. Yesterday the cable giant officially bid for Twenty-First Century Fox. [Read more →]
ADVA Helps Put Quantum to Work
June 13th, 2018
In a pair of interesting announcements this morning, ADVA offered a glimpse of what is to come in the realm of quantum-powered network security. [Read more →]
So, AT&T Actually Won?
June 13th, 2018
AT&T is definitely having a good week. Yesterday a federal judge ruled in the company’s favor and swept away the federal government’s objections to the company’s purchase of Time Warner. [Read more →]
EdgeConneX, Renovo Team Up for Vehicle Automation
June 12th, 2018
EdgeConneX and Renovo have announced a new collaboration to advance ‘Vehicle-Edge-Cloud Infrastructure and Data Orchestration’. They hope to pair EdgeConneX’s data centers out at the network edge with Renovo’s cloud-based software to better support deployment of automated vehicle fleets at scale. [Read more →]
Tuesday Roundup: 123Net, GlobeNet, Infomart
June 12th, 2018
Here are a few quick takes on news from the start of this week: [Read more →]
Bye Bye Net Neutrality, Now About That AT&T/Time Warner Merger
June 11th, 2018
It will be official today, the net neutrality regulations put in place under former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski will be wiped from the books. This has been a major piece of current FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s agenda, and he can now check it off of his to-do list. [Read more →]
Cisco’s dominance in Ethernet may be numbered
June 11th, 2018
This article was authored by Allan Tan, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $6.29 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18), a healthy increase of 10.9% year over year. Meanwhile, the worldwide [Read more →]
Friday Roundup: NTT, Vantage, Bezeq, Nokia
June 8th, 2018
Some news from around the world to finish off the week: [Read more →]
The Edge Needs Interconnected Data Centers
June 8th, 2018
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Scott Askins, VP of Channels and Strategic Alliances at Netrality Properties
It’s no secret that cloud adoption has risen astronomically over the past few years. Thanks to the even more recent explosion of public cloud services, hybrid cloud has replaced private clouds as the most dominant force in enterprise computing. According to McAfee, more than half of the enterprises they surveyed in 2017 had adopted hybrid cloud, and they forecasted [Read more →]
Thursday Roundup: Netrality, Frontier, SEACOM, CenturyLink
June 7th, 2018
Here’s a quick rundown on some other news from this week: [Read more →]
America Movil Takes Aim at US Enterprise Market
June 6th, 2018
The Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is making a new move on the US telecommunications marketplace. America Movil announced plans today for a new US-based subsidiary, Claro Enterprise Solutions LLC. [Read more →]
SEAX-1 cable ready for service
June 6th, 2018
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
Super SEA Cable Networks has announced that the SEAX-1 subsea cable system linking Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia is now ready for provisional acceptance. [Read more →]
Metro Bytes: FirstLight, GreenLight, DF&I
June 6th, 2018
Three interesting bits of fiber news from three metro areas in the eastern and northeastern US: [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: PacketFabric, ROOT, Sabey, Telia
June 5th, 2018
In the news so far this week are two colo buildouts and two network expansions across four data centers in four global markets: [Read more →]
CenturyLink’s Vyvx Wins World Cup Biz
June 5th, 2018
CenturyLink says it will be handling the transmission of international distribution and unilateral feeds for this summer’s soccer World Cup for key networks in the Americas. The networks include Fox in the USA, TV Azteca in Mexico, and both RCN and Caracol in Colombia. [Read more →]
Monday Roundup: GIX, GTT, Orange
June 4th, 2018
Here are several interesting news items from over the weekend that are worth a look as you start the week: [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: INDATEL Services CEO Mel Wagner
June 4th, 2018

One of the more unique operators in the US Ethernet transport infrastructure space is INDATEL Services, which sits atop a national collection of statewide member-owners fiber networks. Both INDATEL and its member companies have kept a relatively low profile throughout the waves of consolidation that have swept the fiber space over the last decade. Yet with the demands of 5G and other next generation technologies looming on the horizon, [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: ExteNet Buys Hudson Fiber
June 1st, 2018

There’s been some more consolidation in the fiber sector this week. ExteNet Systems has made its second move within the New York metro area with an agreement to acquire Hudson Fiber Network. [Read more →]