Telecom Ramblings

Fiber network consolidation hasn’t been as prevalent as it was a few years back, but it’s still out there. And this week we saw a deal for a significant amount of infrastructure in the Midwest. Shenandoah Telecommunications has announced an agreement to acquire Horizon Telcom. [Read more →]

Lumen announced the win of a significant chunk of state government dollars yesterday. California’s Department of Technology has awarded Lumen more than $400M to build out open-access middle-mile connectivity across the state. [Read more →]

One of the harder routes to generate viable plans for has always been the long distance between North America and Australia. Now finally taking direct aim at the problem, however, is Google, which announced plans for the South Pacific Connect initiative today in a blog post, as the company is wont to do. [Read more →]

Four items from overseas and one from right next door: [Read more →]

Some M&A, an upgrade, and a major expansion completed: [Read more →]

A new IX and several new partnerships and ecosystem expansions from around the world. [Read more →]

This Industry viewpoint was authored by Dijam Panigrahi, COO of GridRaster

Immersive mixed reality, and extended reality technologies, which are comprised by virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), continue to be key driving factors in business innovation and expansion. By transforming how companies run, interact with their customers, and accomplish their objectives, this technological solution set has been making a significant impact across multiple industries. [Read more →]

A couple of international technology upgrades and a couple of regional infrastructure projects: [Read more →]

EXA Infrastructure has revealed some substantial additional transatlantic diversity this week. They have taken up capacity on two additional cables, one taking a northern route and the other a more southerly one. The moves boost their routing options for transatlantic data from three to five. [Read more →]

Multiple interesting partnerships from around the world to catch up on: [Read more →]

EXA Infrastructure has officially launched the Trans Adriatic Express, further building out the company’s connectivity in southeastern Europe. The TAE connects France with Turkey by leveraging the Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG, which brings natural gas from Turkey across Greece to southern Italy. The result is a newly diverse route between Paris and Istanbul. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Gerrit Jan Konijnenberg, Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF)

Over the next ten years, we must dramatically reduce carbon dioxide (or equivalent gases – collectively known as CO2e) levels or we will be unable to keep global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-Industrial levels. Passing that tipping point will make it incredibly difficult to bring climate change under control. [Read more →]

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

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

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 →]

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

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 →]

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 →]

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

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

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 →]

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

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 →]