Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ellen Velickovska, Co-Founder & Managing director at telXira

With the development of simple, effective and reliable application-to-person (A2P) SMS messaging services, there is a significant opportunity for enterprises to improve communications with their customers. [Read more →]

While it hasn’t dipped its toes into the M&A world for a while, Cogent Communications does like a good deal. And they appear to have found a big one one, pending what has to be a pretty hairy integration project.  The backbone operator has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire T-Mobile’s wireline business for one dollar. [Read more →]

The data center, cloud, and connectivity provider Flexential has unveiled plans for a major expansion of its footprint in the Pacific Northwest. Yesterday they announced a development project outside Portland, Oregon in Hillsboro. And helping them with the project is T5 Data Centers. [Read more →]

A quick roundup at midweek: [Read more →]

The US may have been at the beach for a long weekend, but the rest of the world seems to have kept busy enough.  Here are three bits of news from around the globe, and especially undersea: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Pravin S. Bhandarkar, Founder and CEO, RtBrick

The metaverse is here to stay. Whether you’re a big fan, or you think it’ll all come crumbling down on Zuckerberg, the virtual platform has opened the eyes of many consumers and businesses. However, as we embrace this new digital world, one critical issue remains unanswered: how will it all be connected? [Read more →]

A data center expansion project, a new fiber backhaul project, and a significant new SASE effort: [Read more →]

Four expansions and an HQ move announced this week from around the US: [Read more →]

Two industry giants are leveraging advances in software defined networking and automation in general to deepen their relationship. Orange has expanded its telco cloud footprint by leveraging Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service capabilities. [Read more →]

Three upgrade projects of differing types, plus some M&A news in the data center space from over the weekend or late last week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Todd Kiehn, SVP Global Product Management, GTT

When the world hit pause during the pandemic, home offices, remote work, and the adoption of cloud-based business applications created new avenues of attack for cybercriminals. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, malware, ransomware, and other criminal and disruptive activity surged [Read more →]

One M&A, one expansion, one new tenant, and one vendor win: [Read more →]

Over the past decade we have seen a major shift in the ecosystem of global internet exchanges from the massively centralized to the globally decentralized. This week plans were announced for another IX, this time in Nigeria via a partnership between AMS-IX and MDXi. [Read more →]

A subsea cable splice, a new global partnership, and a key M&A regulatory hurdle cleared: [Read more →]

It’s not too often someone takes the plunge across the border in internet infrastructure within mainland China, but the data center space is one place it does happen now and then. According to Bloomberg, the two private equity firms Macquarie and Warburg Pincus are apparently close to making such an effort to invest in Bohao Internet Data Services. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Maria Lema, Co-Founder, Weaver Labs

With the UK quickly becoming one of the most optimal places to invest in telecoms innovation, the existing deployment model has not been effective in coordinating communication and integration within the telecoms supply chain. This lack of consensus in the industry led the government to develop [Read more →]

It’s midway through August, and while the overall news is pretty strange these days the infrastructure sector just keeps moving forward: one new network operator and three software integration moves: [Read more →]

Two new products, a big bandwidth trial, and a new customer: [Read more →]

Some ESG progress, a new edge data center, a new partnership in southeast Asia, and a new name in US fiber emerges: [Read more →]

As the North and South American subsidiary of China Telecom, China Telecom Americas (CTA) has a tougher path to follow than most international forays into the Americas.  The rise of China’s economy means companies need help crossing the border, because there are many more language and cultural issues at play than between the U.S. and Europe, for example. With us today to talk about the company’s approach to the western hemisphere is Luis Fiallo, Vice President for China Telecom Americas. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Roger Northrop, Chief Technology Officer, Mutare

More phone calls are being transmitted by digital protocols today, rather than over physical analog lines, due to the prevalence of online VOIP communications and session initiation protocols (SIPs). Unfortunately, this evolution in telephony has provided hackers with new pathways to infiltrate organizations through their voice networks. [Read more →]

Five interesting items from four continents to keep pace with: [Read more →]

The whole infrastructure at the edge thing isn’t just about data and communications in the modern economy. Electric vehicles need decentralized recharging options, and it turns out the problems aren’t all that different from the data center industry. Or at least that’s what EdgeConneX and EQT think, because they just launched a new company targeting that opportunity. [Read more →]