Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

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

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

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

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

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

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 →]

Several interesting upgrades and deployments of regional interest: [Read more →]

Three data center items and one marketplace milestone: [Read more →]

Some backhaul, some FTTx, and a bit of biomass energy: [Read more →]

If the shift in the data center world toward supporting AI and other next generation trends wasn’t already clear, one can just take a look at today’s news from Digital Realty. The colocation giant has introduced a new high density offering that takes direct aim at supporting AI workloads and in parallel other demands driven by the ongoing data expansion across multiple industries. [Read more →]

Two FTTH expansion projects, one new IX, and some new regional optical manufacturing capacity: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prodapt’s Rajesh Khanna Jalandhar

The projected growth and demand for Fiber-to-the-Home/Building (FTTH/B) in the global market is estimated at a value of $29.7B by 2026 at a CAGR of 13.1% (Research & Market), highlighting the crucial need for efficient and commercially viable fiber planning and design. [Read more →]

A new minority investment, an analytics upgrade, and some 400G: [Read more →]

A couple of funding moves, a cloud communications upgrade, and a new midwestern PoP: [Read more →]

A leadership change, an NaaS partnership, some 400G, and some interesting fiber M&A activity: [Read more →]

Lumen has finally made its move into the Network-as-a-Service space with a new flagship platform. The fiber and data infrastructure giant’s is starting off with Internet on-Demand, enabling scalable dedicated capacity via a digital portal or via an API and with consumption-based billing. [Read more →]

Four interesting items from around the industry to keep up with as July comes to a close: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Jonathan Nelson, Director of Product Management at Hiya.

The voice call remains the preferred means of communication among consumers, professionals, and businesses alike. [Read more →]

Four expansion projects in four geographies in support of four different opportunities: [Read more →]

Multiple interesting items from around the sector: interconnection, FTTP, fixed wireless, and quantum networking. [Read more →]

Uniti Group has picked up a key longhaul dark fiber customer. An unnamed ‘prominent global internet provider’ has signed on for two routes covering 7,000 fiber strand miles in order to bolster an existing national footprint with increased diversity and capacity. [Read more →]

One subsea cable, one DAS deployment, one SASE expansion, and one IoT M&A: [Read more →]