Telecom Ramblings

New York City is one of the biggest commercial markets in the world, but it has long been one of the most difficult places to build infrastructure.  Manhattan is one thing, but few providers have historically been brave enough to venture out to the other boroughs like Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx in force.  With us today is Doug Turtz, who took over at Skywire and Xchange Telecom earlier this year.  Rebranding under the moniker ‘Skywire powered by Xchange’, the company is gearing up to take its hybrid fixed-wireless and fiber approach to a wide swath of underserved destinations around the metro area. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Mikko Jarva, Head of Portfolio & Architecture, Network Monetization Platform at Nokia

With 5G deployments now widespread in many markets, telecom network providers are ushering in a new era to enable the building of new and improved software applications that enrich the network experience of business customers and consumers while generating new revenue streams. [Read more →]

Two items of M&A, one expansion, and an ecosystem partnership: [Read more →]

Over in western Europe, euNetworks has made some new investments into its low latency connectivity between key financial exchanges. They are now claiming to deliver the lowest latency to the Euronext exchange from both London and Frankfurt. [Read more →]

Lumen has won another significant federal contract, building upon the success. They will be operating and maintaining the fiber backbone of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). [Read more →]

Two from Mexico and three from Europe: [Read more →]

Three bits of last mile connectivity news to start the week: [Read more →]

By Matt McConnell, CEO of Intradiem

The current incarnation of AI is the biggest tech breakthrough since the Internet. So far, we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. [Read more →]

Colt and Lumen have completed their previously announced deal. For the price of $1.8B, Lumen’s business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa is now officially part of Colt. [Read more →]

Some fiber, some data center, some wireless, and some voice: [Read more →]

A large set of regional upgrades and expansions of note as we end October: [Read more →]

LightRiver has long labored behind the scenes of network design and deployment for service providers across the industry.  With the rise of automation and software-driven infrastructure, they have begun to move deeper into the actual operation and maintenance of those networks as well.  With us today to talk about the company’s approach to the ever-moving target of network infrastructure design and operation is newly minted CEO Mike Jonas. [Read more →]

Several expansion projects of note that were announced this week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Simon Waller at Epsilon Telecommunications

The cloud has revolutionised the way the world works, seamlessly connecting more people and businesses to the online world than ever before. [Read more →]

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 →]