Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

Four interesting items from the European theatre: [Read more →]

A new campus, some 400G, a purchasing vehicle win, and a subsea rollout: [Read more →]

Yesterday Google unveiled yet another subsea cable project. The new cable will be named Nuvem, which is apparently Portuguese for ‘cloud’, and will connect Portugal with South Carolina. Along the way it will stop in Bermuda, which has not gotten a whole lot of subsea fiber love over the years. [Read more →]

The European data center market has had an interesting few years, buffeted by geopolitical changes in the energy markets and driven by ever-expanding demand from new technologies.  With us today to talk about it all isn the CEO of maincubes, Oliver Menzel.  From his perch in Frankfurt, Germany, home to one of the largest data center concentrations in the world, he has a unique viewpoint on the market, the drivers of demand, and the future direction of European data centers.  [Read more →]

This Industry Spotlight was authored by SAP’s Sandeep Chowdhury

As behemoths like Google, Meta and Netflix continue to devour bandwidth across the network value chain, the common refrain among network providers who are investing so much to build the infrastructure on which platforms like these rely has been, “What about us?” [Read more →]

Three items of regional fiber news and a new player in the global data center infrastructure space: [Read more →]

Three regional moves with the help of key vendors, and a couple of interesting executive hires: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some international items from the last day or three: [Read more →]

Undertaking a large development in any major city is daunting, especially when the development is as complex as a data center.  However, complicated doesn’t mean impossible, and a new entrant with local real estate expertise thinks they have found a unique way to crack it. Metro Edge Development Partners (Metro Edge) is preparing to kick off the buildout of IMD1, an exclusive five-story data center    to be located within the Illinois Medical District, just two miles west of the central business district of Chicago. With us today to talk about the project’s past, present and future is Metro Edge Co-Founder and CEO Craig Huffman. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prashant Maloo, Senior Director at Prodapt

Service providers in the Connectedness industry focus on gaining a competitive edge over the competition by maintaining a premium quality of service. However, quality assurance has been a tough challenge, given the need to master the various stages of the product life cycle, such as requirements gathering, product development, product testing, support & maintenance, etc. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of vendor news items from this week worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

Here’s a set of vendor news items from this week worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

Several interesting expansions and some SASE enhancements: [Read more →]

Several interesting items from around the world, two in the data center space, one subsea, and one backbone: [Read more →]

The data center space is constantly shifting, with new players backed by savvy investors creating novel strategies to provide the next generation of infrastructure to the rest of the economy.  One company that has been rising quickly over the past two years is Colohouse, which has blended organic and M&A activity to assemble a presence across 10 markets with more to come.  With us today to talk about Colohouse’s strategy and its viewpoint on the data center marketplace is CEO Jeremy Pease, who took the helm a little less than a year ago. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ross Flynn, Mobile Ecosystem Forum

The mobile phone has resulted in a variety of changes – some welcomed, some less so, and some have been unexpected. For example, mobile phones are contributing to a shift in how TV advertising is bought. [Read more →]

New data centers, an IX upgrade, and some wavelength upgrades and expansions: [Read more →]