Telecom Ramblings

A few interesting items from around the world: a refinancing, three contracts, and a technology upgrade: [Read more →]

Four bits of expansion news: one subsea cable, two new PoPs, and a new data center: [Read more →]

The data center giant Equinix has made a surprising inorganic move into West Africa with the acquisition of MainOne. The $320M deal was announced this morning, giving Equinix not just a data center footprint on a new continent, but a stake in the subsea fiber business as well. [Read more →]

Three interesting items from three continents to note as we start the week: [Read more →]

A customer win, a new facility, a new cloud router, and an acquisition: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Niall Norton, General Manager of Amdocs for 5G and Networks and CEO of Openet

Communication service providers (CSPs) are facing more pressure than ever to start generating new revenue streams and monetising their network assets. With rising demand for real time, data-rich services, telcos have had to invest in upgrading their networks, both in the core and increasingly at the edge, while simultaneously [Read more →]

Two manage services deployments, one managed security win, and some job markets collaboration: [Read more →]

Here are five interesting items to keep up with at midweek: [Read more →]

The internet exchange operator DE-CIX has found three new markets to expand its IX footprint into. The lucky destinations are just to the north of DE-CIX’s Frankfurt roots in the Nordics. [Read more →]

With the US on its annual Thanksgiving hiatus, the rest of the world was of course still getting a few things done.  Here are three international infrastructure items from over the weekend to catch up on as we start the new week: [Read more →]

Time to catch up on a few items before the long holiday weekend here in the USA.  [Read more →]

Three network expansions and an upgrade, two domestic and two international: [Read more →]

This morning there was a significant inorganic shift in the cloud communications space. The Swedish vendor Ericsson has entered into an agreement to buy none other than Vonage. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Don Boxley, CEO and Co-Founder, DH2i (www.dh2i.com)

I like to use Cybersecurity Awareness Month—which we just observed in October—as a pulse check on data protection solutions for high-risk industries that are particularly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. One industry at the top of that list is telecommunications. Since every October offers a new chance to raise awareness of cybersecurity issues, it’s a perfect time to ensure that your telecom business is taking the necessary steps to shore up its data safety online. [Read more →]

Two from China, one from Europe, and one from North America worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

Global Cloud Xchange has found itself a new owner. In an announcement yesterday, GCX revealed that 3i Infrastructure has agreed to spend $512M to acquire a 100% stake in the company. [Read more →]

A few metro and regional news items to catch up on at midweek: [Read more →]

Zayo this week has announced some new expansion plans out in Indiana, a state where they have a long history of both organic and inorganic investments. This past summer they completed the acquisition of IFN, but their new plans are for the buildout of yet more fiber. [Read more →]

Yesterday was quite a day for data center operators whose name starts with C it seems.  CyrusOne has announced an agreement to be acquired by the two investment firms Global Infrastructure Partners in a deal that will take the company private. [Read more →]

After a couple years of trying its hand in the data center space, American Tower has made up its mind and now plans to jump all the way into the deep end. The tower infrastructure giant has agreed to acquire Coresite for $10.1B. [Read more →]

With all the inorganic activity in the infrastructure space, it’s always interesting to hear a more organic story.  Bandwidth IG has spent the entire pandemic era ramping up from nothing to extensive metro reach in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the Atlanta metro area. With us today to talk about Bandwidth IG’s experiences during this period and its future plans is CEO Jim Nolte, a veteran of the metro fiber business.  Prior to Bandwidth IG, Jim spent six years each at Zayo and AGL Networks. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Darach Beirne, VP of customer success at Flowroute, now part of Intrado

Hybrid work has become the new norm for many businesses after taking center stage in 2020. Now, 74% of companies say they plan to continue remote work during their transition back to in-person or hybrid operations. Despite the numerous benefits associated with working remotely, the changes have exasperated a few challenges for businesses. For example, the influx of workforce optimization tools is creating barriers to a fluid customer experience. The barrier? IT silos. [Read more →]

Over in the UK, CityFibre and Vodafone say they are deepening their relationship as they roll out fiber to an ever larger swath of the country. The two companies unveiled an expansion of their strategic partnership making Vodafone an anchor customer nationwide. [Read more →]