Telecom Ramblings

This morning a bit of M&A landed that touches on a whole lot of networks out there, at least indirectly. LightRiver has itself a new owner. Grain Management has announced the acquisition of the company’s Technologies and Software divisions. [Read more →]

A bit of blockchain, two FTTH expansions, and a subsea cable. [Read more →]

No infrastructure is more critical to a data center than the power that keeps it online, and when the grid fails those backup generators must be ready instantly. As all our infrastructure becomes more complex and automation drives everything, those power systems must keep pace with the times. Today we talk with Mike Pincus, Director of Sales Operations at Kohler, a data center power industry leader, to learn about the innovative new approach to commissioning he developed. [Read more →]

There was a bit of interesting M&A this week in the UC and managed services space. Atlanta-based Lingo has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bullseye Telecom, marking another phase of the company’s expansion since it split off of Birch back in 2018. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Vic Bozzo, CRO of SONOC

Platform providers, OTT players and a whole range of communications service providers simply need faster and integrated access to global numbers. The speed that they can access number inventory and seamlessly deliver to customers has emerged as a competitive advantage. Today, Direct Inward Dialling (DID) management is accelerating service delivery and supporting the growth of communication service providers (CPaaS) and unified communications (UC) platforms worldwide. [Read more →]

Five items worth keeping tabs on from this week: [Read more →]

A few interesting deployments and partnerships from around the world from the last day or two: [Read more →]

While intercity fiber buildouts have sprung up in recent years, it has still been several decades since there has been a project that successfully spanned the continent, though Allied Fiber certainly made one attempt to rally folks. But today we have a new entrant into that space. 3Red8 today announced plans for a fiberoptic transport network from coast to coast as well as from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. [Read more →]

Five bits of interesting news from around the industry as well as the globe: [Read more →]

Meta, the company we used to call Facebook, has unveiled a massive infrastructure investment out in Missouri. The company plans to build out a new $800M hyperscale data center in Kansas City. [Read more →]

The second piece of the Havhingsten news from the Irish and North Seas dropped on Friday from Aqua Comms. The subsea network operator has officially launched two intra-European subsea cable systems: CeltixConnect-2 and North Sea Connect. The two cable systems are Aqua Comms’ piece of the Havhingsten system whose completion was announced by partner Bulk Infrastructure and Meta last week. [Read more →]

Two bits of interconnection news, an optical upgrade, and a new edge data center customer: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Shirin Esfandiari, Product Marketing Director for Oracle Communications

5G promises lightning-fast speeds, near 100 percent availability and reliability, and strong security from the network core to the edge. However, building the mobile network foundation needed to support a national and even a global 5G infrastructure is a huge undertaking. [Read more →]

Connectivity to Scandinavia has been evolving rapidly in recent years, and this morning got a little more diverse. Aqua Comms, Bulk Fiber Networks, and Meta announced this morning the completion of the Havhingsten cable system. [Read more →]

Four bits of expansion news, two from the data center side and two from the network operator side: [Read more →]

According to an announcement yesterday, OneWeb has a new launch partner lined up. They have entered into an agreement with none other than Elon Musk’s SpaceX. [Read more →]

Multiple interesting infrastructure moves, both organic and inorganic, from around the industry from the start of this week: [Read more →]

Some data center M&A to the south, an organic expansion project to the north, and a wireless data deployment across the sea: [Read more →]

Lightpath’s plans for the Boston metro area continue to grow. The metro fiber provider has unveiled a 75-mile buildout to the west of the city, bringing their network to key suburban markets all the way out to the outer I-495 beltway. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Bill Versen, President, Communications Market and Chief Marketing Officer of Transaction Network Services (TNS)

In the interest of not burying the lead, let’s state the obvious: robocalls are not going to disappear anytime soon. Americans received nearly 79 billion robocalls in 2021, down 26% compared to the 106.9 billion robocalls Americans received at the pre-pandemic peak in 2019 but undeniably a mind-numbing total that cannot simply be unwound overnight. [Read more →]

Some subsea and longhaul items worth checking out from this week: [Read more →]

Verizon has won some very high profile federal business. The telecommunications giant has won three task orders worth as much as $966.5M to modernize network infrastructure for the US Department of Defense in and around Washington DC. [Read more →]

We got a bit of color for an RDOF project down in Texas this week via two announcements from Pampa-based Resound Networks. The company is bringing both fiber and fixed wireless to bear on the problem, expanding its reach into new markets across the state of Texas. [Read more →]