TGIF, and here’s a few other news items from this week that are worth a look: [Read more →]
EdgeConneX Weaves in PacketFabric
September 21st, 2017
The interconnection and cloud connectivity markets have been evolving rapidly over the last few years. Yesterday two of the companies that have been shaking things up in their respective areas have announced a new partnership. [Read more →]
Mobile broadband adoption boosts GDP
September 21st, 2017
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
An increase in mobile broadband penetration directly causes significant growth in a country’s GDP, according to research from Ericsson and the Imperial College of London. [Read more →]
Pennsylvania Picks Level 3
September 20th, 2017
With the CenturyLink deal looming ever closer, Level 3 has landed a significant contract in the government vertical. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has awarded the Broomfield-based network operator a 5-year, $79M contract. [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: Infomart, Orange, Cloudsmartz, Colt
September 20th, 2017
Here’s a quick look at some news from around the industry: [Read more →]
Not-So-Breaking News: Sprint & T-Mobile Are Talking
September 19th, 2017
The seasons are changing, which means of course that we need to refresh our wireless M&A rumors. You’ll never guess who is talking about a mega-merger this time. Ok, maybe you will. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: QTS, Cisco, CenturyLink, Level 3, Voxbone
September 19th, 2017
An IX expansion, a retirement, two new products, and a makeover: [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: ROOT Data Center CEO AJ Byers
September 19th, 2017

The Canadian data center market has been getting more and more attention lately, especially as more and more internet infrastructure investments are focused at the edge, outside the handful of core nodes that have traditionally dominated. One such market is that of Montreal, the home of ROOT Data Center. With us today to talk about the data center business up north is ROOT’s CEO AJ Byers. Prior to taking the helm at ROOT, AJ led Black Iron Data until its sale to Rogers, when he became the division’s president. [Read more →]
Focus Makes A Difference for SD-WAN Vendors
September 18th, 2017
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang
With SD-WAN becoming more popular in the WAN infrastructure marketplace, IT and telecom consultants like myself are often asked such questions by enterprise clients as that there are dozens of SD-WAN vendors out there, which one [Read more →]
Int’l Roundup: Keppel, Tata, China Telecom Global, Digital Realty
September 18th, 2017
Some news from around the world to start off this Monday morning: [Read more →]
Colt Adds Metro Fiber in the Far East
September 15th, 2017

Colt has been busy adding some fiber to its diet in the eastern hemisphere. They are in the process of building a metro footprint in Singapore and have begun the buildout of a new metro network in Hong Kong. [Read more →]
Thursday Bytes: Equinix, Southern Telecom, Wilcon, RETN, DE-CIX
September 14th, 2017
One data center launch, some new hires in metro fiber, a new office in central Asia, and some interconnection milestones: [Read more →]
EdgeConneX Takes On Toronto
September 14th, 2017
EdgeConneX is taking its edge data center footprint across the US/Canada border for the first time. The company’s first Canadian Edge Data Center and 40th overall is planned to be opened in Toronto. [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: CenturyLink, FiberLight, CoreSite, Connected2Fiber
September 13th, 2017
An update on the CenturyLink/Level 3 deal, some new fiber and cloud connectivity, and an SaaS adoption: [Read more →]
Skywire Raises Funding, Takes Aim at the Rest of NYC
September 12th, 2017

New York City is going to have some more fixed wireless competition going forward. Skywire Networks has landed $23M in financing from Metropolitan Partners Group as part of an effort to greatly expand its list of on-net buildings, which currently stands at 400. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Seaborn, Element Critical, Ciena, FiberLight, Zayo
September 12th, 2017
Here’s a quick survey of some news from the past few days through this morning: [Read more →]
Singtel to close copper-based ADSL networks
September 12th, 2017
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
Singtel has revealed plans to progressively shut down its copper-based ADSL networks as part of a push to accelerate fiber based service adoption to business and residential customers. [Read more →]
Equinix to Acquire Itconic
September 11th, 2017
Equinix has found another M&A target and a new international market region to attack. The global data center company has entered into an agreement to acquire the cloud and data center specialist Itconic. [Read more →]
Superloop Acquires NuSkope, Moves Deeper Into Fixed Wireless
September 11th, 2017
There was a bit of M&A in the metro space down under to start off this week. Superloop has announced the acquisition of NuSkope, a provider of metro fixed wireless in the city of Adelaide, as well as several associated entities. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: 128 Technology COO Patrick MeLampy
September 11th, 2017

Software is driving the world of networking more so than ever before, and the changes are just getting started. There are a lot of new approaches and new voices in the conversation. One of those is 128 Technology, which is bringing session-awareness to routing. With us today to talk about 128 Technology’s approach to routing and where they think the market is going is COO Patrick MeLampy. Prior to helping found 128 Technology, Patrick was co-founder and CTO at Acme Packet, which Oracle acquired in 2013. [Read more →]
Friday Roundup: Epsilon, Internap, Digital Realty
September 8th, 2017
Some interconnection news and a couple of data center expansions: [Read more →]
How to form your B2B Telecoms video marketing
September 8th, 2017

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Jon Mowat, founder of video strategy agency, Hurricane.
No matter how many articles you read about top marketing trends for 2017, video will always get a mention. The medium of moving pictures has become the dominant force for brands keen to catch the eye, and the proliferation [Read more →]
Thursday Bytes: 123Net, Crown Castle, Orange Business, BroadSoft, Ufinet
September 7th, 2017
Some metro news, some global items, and an M&A in LATAM to consider: [Read more →]