Thursday Bytes: Salute, Sparkle, Nokia, du, Ciena, SUBCO

October 12th, 2023
 

A few interesting items from EMEA and beyond: [Read more →]

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Regional Roundup: Powerhouse, Flexential, Lumos, Spectrum Enterprise

October 11th, 2023
 

Four projects from spots around the country to catch up with: [Read more →]

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Akamai Buys Lumen’s CDN Customers

October 11th, 2023
 

In a transaction that reflects the changing landscape of internet infrastructure, Akamai and Lumen announced a transaction yesterday. Lumen has sold ‘select Content Delivery Network service contracts’ to Akamai. The deal enables Akamai to consolidate more revenue onto its platform and allows Lumen to refocus further on connectivity. [Read more →]

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Tuesday Roundup: Great Plains, Zayo, Green Mountain, GTT

October 10th, 2023
 

A few interesting items worth catching up on: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: Cityside Fiber’s Rod Hanson Takes on Orange County

October 9th, 2023
 

Residential fiber is big right now, and yet it’s just getting started.  With all the money backing FTTH buildouts right now, it’s hard to remember how many places there are that you would think have plenty of options but don’t.  One such region is California’s Orange County, which is where Cityside Fiber has started rolling out deep fiber infrastructure.  With us today to talk about Cityside’s plans, progress, and vision is Founder and CEO Rod Hanson. [Read more →]

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Capitalise on Change: How Tech-Forward Businesses Can Make the Most of The Big Switch Off

October 6th, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Chris Wade, Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Gamma

A big change to the UK’s telecoms is coming. In 2025 The Big Switch Off will take effect, launching us into fully digital communications – which many agree is long overdue. [Read more →]

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Thursday Roundup: Bulk, HGC, GBI, ConnectBase, MEF

October 5th, 2023
 

Three partnerships and some standards work of note: [Read more →]

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Wednesday Bytes: CMC, T5, Orange, Adtran, Start Campus

October 4th, 2023
 

Several interesting items, both domestic and international, from this week already: [Read more →]

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Quantum Communication Crosses a Sea and a National Border

October 3rd, 2023
 

Over in Europe, the nascent technology of quantum communication has crossed another threshold, or more precisely the Irish Sea. A recent set of experiments established a quantum link between two countries and spanning some 224km under the water. [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: NEC, Nokia, Infinera, CityFibre

October 2nd, 2023
 

Three vendor wins, a subsea spead trial, and a FTTH update from around the world: [Read more →]

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Diversifying Europe’s long-haul digital infrastructure

September 29th, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Steve Roberts, Vice President Strategic Investments, EXA Infrastructure

In the race to improve Europe’s digital infrastructure, much of the focus has been on local access networks and funding for broader investments. But as more workloads move to the cloud and hyperscale traffic continues to grow, more attention has been shifting to international connectivity, and in particular to create greater diversity in parts of Europe where there is overreliance on certain long-established routes. [Read more →]

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Euro bytes: Start Campus, Colt, Orange Business, Nokia, Lyntia, Clio, Adtran

September 28th, 2023
 

Four interesting items from the European theatre: [Read more →]

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Wednesday Roundup: Aligned, Zayo, Spectrum, Infinera

September 27th, 2023
 

A new campus, some 400G, a purchasing vehicle win, and a subsea rollout: [Read more →]

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Google’s Newest Cable: Nuvem

September 26th, 2023
 

Yesterday Google unveiled yet another subsea cable project. The new cable will be named Nuvem, which is apparently Portuguese for ‘cloud’, and will connect Portugal with South Carolina. Along the way it will stop in Bermuda, which has not gotten a whole lot of subsea fiber love over the years. [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: maincubes CEO Oliver Menzel

September 25th, 2023
 

The European data center market has had an interesting few years, buffeted by geopolitical changes in the energy markets and driven by ever-expanding demand from new technologies.  With us today to talk about it all isn the CEO of maincubes, Oliver Menzel.  From his perch in Frankfurt, Germany, home to one of the largest data center concentrations in the world, he has a unique viewpoint on the market, the drivers of demand, and the future direction of European data centers.  [Read more →]

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How Network Providers Can Capitalize on the Vast Promise of Direct-to-Consumer

September 22nd, 2023
 

This Industry Spotlight was authored by SAP’s Sandeep Chowdhury

As behemoths like Google, Meta and Netflix continue to devour bandwidth across the network value chain, the common refrain among network providers who are investing so much to build the infrastructure on which platforms like these rely has been, “What about us?” [Read more →]

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Thursday Bytes: Arvig, Gateway, Empire, Ada Infrastructure

September 21st, 2023
 

Three items of regional fiber news and a new player in the global data center infrastructure space: [Read more →]

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Regional Bytes: TCT, Adtran, Tombigbee, Calix, Accelecom, Alianza, FirstLight

September 20th, 2023
 

Three regional moves with the help of key vendors, and a couple of interesting executive hires: [Read more →]

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Int’l Roundup: STACK, Subcom, GI Partners, Hurricane Electric, HGC

September 19th, 2023
 

Here’s a quick look at some international items from the last day or three: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: Metro Edge’s Craig Huffman on Chicago’s IMD1 Project

September 18th, 2023
 

Undertaking a large development in any major city is daunting, especially when the development is as complex as a data center.  However, complicated doesn’t mean impossible, and a new entrant with local real estate expertise thinks they have found a unique way to crack it. Metro Edge Development Partners (Metro Edge) is preparing to kick off the buildout of IMD1, an exclusive five-story data center    to be located within the Illinois Medical District, just two miles west of the central business district of Chicago. With us today to talk about the project’s past, present and future is Metro Edge Co-Founder and CEO Craig Huffman. [Read more →]

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Harnessing AI’s Potential to Detect Visual Bugs Faster

September 15th, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prashant Maloo, Senior Director at Prodapt

Service providers in the Connectedness industry focus on gaining a competitive edge over the competition by maintaining a premium quality of service. However, quality assurance has been a tough challenge, given the need to master the various stages of the product life cycle, such as requirements gathering, product development, product testing, support & maintenance, etc. [Read more →]

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Vendor Bytes: Sabey, JetCool, Nokia, Ciena, Ribbon, Infinera

September 14th, 2023
 

Here’s a set of vendor news items from this week worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

Here’s a set of vendor news items from this week worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

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Wednesday Roundup: Arcadian Infracom, Comcast Business, Lumen, Liquid

September 13th, 2023
 

Several interesting expansions and some SASE enhancements: [Read more →]

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