Int’l Roundup: EdgeConneX, Xtera, GlobalNet, Vantage

September 12th, 2023
 

Several interesting items from around the world, two in the data center space, one subsea, and one backbone: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: Colohouse CEO Jeremy Pease on Growth, M&A, Vision, and AI

September 11th, 2023
 

The data center space is constantly shifting, with new players backed by savvy investors creating novel strategies to provide the next generation of infrastructure to the rest of the economy.  One company that has been rising quickly over the past two years is Colohouse, which has blended organic and M&A activity to assemble a presence across 10 markets with more to come.  With us today to talk about Colohouse’s strategy and its viewpoint on the data center marketplace is CEO Jeremy Pease, who took the helm a little less than a year ago. [Read more →]

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DEVICE WARS AND HOW ADVERTISERS WILL SPEND THEIR TV MONEY IN COMING YEARS

September 8th, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ross Flynn, Mobile Ecosystem Forum

The mobile phone has resulted in a variety of changes – some welcomed, some less so, and some have been unexpected. For example, mobile phones are contributing to a shift in how TV advertising is bought. [Read more →]

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Thursday Bytes: Digital Realty, LINX, Nokia, Padtec, UPIX, EXA

September 7th, 2023
 

New data centers, an IX upgrade, and some wavelength upgrades and expansions: [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: Bulk, Virtus, EXA, Orange Business

September 6th, 2023
 

Two expansion projects, some new interconnection, and a smart city partnership: [Read more →]

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nLighten Buys Proximity, Storms Into UK

September 5th, 2023
 

The European data center provider nLighten has made its second inorganic move of this summer season with the announcement of the purchase of Proximity Data Centres. The deal enables nLighten to go from zero to sixty in the UK data center market, just as it did in France a few months ago. [Read more →]

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Unpacking the Triple Threat of Carpet Bomb Attacks: Evasion, Neutralization, and Overload

September 1st, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ashley Stephenson, CTO of Corero Network Security

Nature often provides insightful parallels to our complex digital world. For instance, one might think of a business network connected to the internet as a dynamic beehive where each bee symbolizes a unique IP address of the customer, all tirelessly working to ensure the entire colony remains connected. Much like bees in a hive, these IP addresses constantly relay information in order to communicate vital signals or potential threats. You could think of a [Read more →]

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Lumen Brings Microsoft Copilot Onboard

August 31st, 2023
 

Lumen is bringing on some more talent, and by talent I mean AI. They have teamed up with Microsoft to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot to empower its 30K employee base in a beta test under Microsoft’s Early Access Program.. [Read more →]

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Wednesday Roundup: EdgeCore, HE, neutrality.one, Kolibric, Breezeline, CoreSite

August 30th, 2023
 

Four bits of network expansion news, both domestic and international. [Read more →]

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Int’l Roundup: Infinera, Macquarie, Scala, CityFibre

August 29th, 2023
 

Four interesting bits of upgrade and expansion news from around the world to keep up with: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: DataBank’s Raul Martynek on Integration, Growth, M&A, AI

August 28th, 2023
 

With us today for a return visit is Raul Martynek, CEO of DataBank.  In our last Q&A, we talked about the company’s purchase of zColo from Zayo during the height of the pandemic.  Now it has been a couple of years, and DataBank has had some time to digest that and other acquired assets like CyrusOne’s Houston footprint.  The company has also accelerated investments in organic new builds across multiple markets.  Most recently they sold off their footprint over in France.  Today we will explore what DataBank’s plans are and what they see on the horizon. [Read more →]

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Three words to help CSPs redefine business outcomes: Cloud Packet Core

August 25th, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Mike Hawley, Head of Mobility Management Packet Core R&D, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia

Communications service providers (CSPs) take a pragmatic view when it comes to core developments. Beyond the fascinating technology, CSPs want results that meet their end goals.

Generally, there are three goal areas that drive these conversations: [Read more →]

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Thursday Bytes: CoreSite, Aqua Comms, HGC, CMC, LightRiver, Ribbon, HTC

August 24th, 2023
 

A new transatlantic option, an international edge expansion, some network tech as a service news, and a vendor deployment in a less travelled region. [Read more →]

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Regional Roundup: NTT, Great Plains Communications, Empire Access

August 23rd, 2023
 

Three network expansions in three regional US markets to catch up with, one on the backbone and two on the FTTx front: [Read more →]

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STACK’s APAC Expansion Now Ready in Melbourne

August 22nd, 2023
 

STACK Infrastructure’s expansion down under is officially complete. Today the data center infrastructure provider said they finished work on their first APAC facility in Melbourne, Australia.  The company has been building global infrastructure at a prodigious rate of late. [Read more →]

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Monday Roundup: CityFibre, GPC, Comcast

August 21st, 2023
 

Two FTTH expansion projects and one new SMB customer win: [Read more →]

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Introducing the Cognitive Model of Digital Transformation

August 18th, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by David W Wang

Ironically, mindset changes often fall behind technological, economic, and social-cultural changes. Human beings are hardwired to resist change. Part of our brain—the amygdala—interprets change as a threat and releases the hormones for fear, fight, or failure. The good news is that just as a child goes through some mental development leaps in learning the new world, we can also achieve mindset leaps for digital transformation by following the Cognitive Model of Digital Transformation introduced here. [Read more →]

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Int’l Roundup: Nokia, Ciena, 2Africa, CLAR, WACS, WIOCC

August 17th, 2023
 

A bunch of interesting infrastructure news items from EMEA: [Read more →]

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Wednesday Roundup: Lumen, neutrality.one, Accelecom, FiberSense

August 16th, 2023
 

A bit of smart-city infrastructure, some low latency, some regional telehealth connectivity, a bit of seismic sensing: [Read more →]

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Tuesday Bytes: LightRiver, Infinera, Spectrum, Arelion, Liquid

August 15th, 2023
 

Some pluggables news, a federal contracts partnership, a network upgrade, and some new metro fiber in Africa: [Read more →]

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Monday Roundup: NetIX, CityFibre, UTOPIA Fiber, Lumen

August 14th, 2023
 

A couple of FTTH items, an interconnection expansion, and some edge data protection: [Read more →]

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Friday Bytes: EdgeCore, Cisco, Empire, Wifinity

August 11th, 2023
 

A few interesting items to round out the week: [Read more →]

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The importance of integration for seamless broadband operations

August 11th, 2023
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Bala Rajakkannu, Director Customer Service, at IQGeo

There’s a unique opportunity awaiting broadband operators today with the expectation that full fiber internet performance should be available to everyone, regardless if they live in a city, town, or rural community. [Read more →]

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