Three regional projects and one international: [Read more →]
Unlocking the Potential of Network APIs: Relevance, Challenges, and the Path Forward
March 7th, 2025

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Shabahat Shakeel, Head of Business Development, WaveMaker
The telecom industry is at the cusp of transformation, driven by advancements in 5G, edge computing, and IoT. At the heart of this transformation lies the concept of network APIs. [Read more →]
Thursday Roundup: Sparkle, Novva, Hylan, Gateway
March 6th, 2025
A new subsea cable, some dollars for data centers, a new infrastructure division, and fiber to the middle of a frozen lake: [Read more →]
Lightpath Buys WANRack’s Phoenix Fiber
March 5th, 2025

Two interesting metro fiber questions were answered this week by a bit of fiber M&A. Lightpath has announced the acquisition of WANRack’s business in Phoenix, Arizona. [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: Verizon, Accenture, Fujitsu, Huawei, Ericsson, e&, Nokia
March 4th, 2025
With MWC underway over in Barcelona, there is lots of partnership news out there as well as plenty of vendor announcements: [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight – Accenture’s Dan Rice Dishes on AI and Other Trends
March 3rd, 2025

The communications and media space has been quite a dynamic environment over the past few years as companies balance both internal and external transformations. But the arrival of AI is just accelerating everything. Professional services companies, like Accenture, are right in the middle of all of it with both a ringside seat and a hand in the changes themselves. With us today to talk about the state of the sector and look at where things tend to be going is Dan Rice, Accenture’s Communications and Media Lead for the USA. [Read more →]
How AI Is Giving the Edge the Application It’s Been Waiting For
February 28th, 2025
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Kevin Sheehan, CTO of the Americas, Ciena
It’s nearly impossible to avoid artificial intelligence (AI) in our day-to-day anymore. What started as a bit of a gimmick, or centered on creating humor, is now beginning to show up all around us. Many initially feared that AI would be centered on cost cutting and eliminating jobs, but it is turning out to be squarely [Read more →]
Metro Bytes: Lightpath, Cityside, MOX, eX2, Comcast Business
February 27th, 2025
Five significant buildouts and upgrades to note from metros around the US: [Read more →]
Wednesday Roundup: SUBCO, Motorola Solutions, Hurricane Electric, Bolden, euNetwors
February 26th, 2025
News from around the world plus the American southwest: [Read more →]
Metro Bytes: 123NET, PFN, IQ Fiber, LiveOak, Brightspeed
February 25th, 2025
With MetroConnect underway down in Florida, there should be plenty of regional and last mile news to take a look at this week. Here’s a start: [Read more →]
Pan-Arctic Cable System Gains Momentum
February 24th, 2025
The vision of building a subsea cable that leverages shorter routes through the Arctic Ocean to connect Europe, Asia, and North America has been around for a while. Making that vision reality has been elusive, but recent moves suggest it might not be that far off now. A collection of companies and other entities with infrastructure experience in that part of the world have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore a Pan-Arctic Cable System (PACS). [Read more →]
Friday Roundup: Bloom, Equinix, DataVolt, T5, Brightspeed, Cisco, Arelion
February 21st, 2025
Plenty of infrastructure news from around the industry this week to catch up with: [Read more →]
Thursday Bytes: Zayo, Infinera, Ciena, H5, DE-CIX, Aligned
February 20th, 2025
Three vendor wins, an IX, and a new data center project: [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: SubCom, Nokia, EXA, Esnet, SkyLab
February 19th, 2025
Two subsea cable projects, a wireless infrastructure upgrade, and an AI expansion: [Read more →]
Tuesday Roundup: Vero Fiber, Brightspeed, Nokia Ciena, Motorola Solutions
February 18th, 2025
Two regional fiber items and three international upgrades: [Read more →]
Meta Goes For Subsea Distance With Project Waterworth
February 17th, 2025

When it comes to subsea cables, there are short ones, long ones, really long ones, and now there is Project Waterworth. Over the weekend, Meta announced its latest subsea cable infrastructure project that would span 50,000km and connect the east coast of the US with the west coast of the US, via, well, everywhere. [Read more →]
Int’l Roundup: GNM, NetIX, Ciena, Nokia
February 14th, 2025
A few international news bytes before the long weekend: [Read more →]
Colo Bytes: STACK, Vantage, DataVolt, RadiusDC, Applied Digital
February 13th, 2025
Five data center infrastructure projects, four from North America and one from the Middle East. [Read more →]
Metro Bytes: Windstream, Dobson, Ziply, CityFibre
February 12th, 2025
Four bits of news from the last mile of the fiber business around the US: [Read more →]
A Subsea Cable to Antarctica?
February 11th, 2025
Might there be a day soon where the last major landmass on the Earth gets connected via subsea cable? Well, a project that would connect Chile with Antarctica is at least getting a feasibility study according to a release yesterday. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: Mistral AI, Sparkle, NEC, Nokia
February 10th, 2025
Four bits of infrastructure and related news from three continents: [Read more →]
Metro Bytes: Lightpath, 123NET, Ezee Fiber, DFN, Render Networks, Firstlight
February 7th, 2025
Here is a series of news bytes covering regional infrastructure expansion projects from this week: [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: Verne Global, Nokia, DE-CIX, e&, iBasis, Mobily
February 6th, 2025
Interesting news items from Europe, southeast Asia, and the Middle East from the past several days: [Read more →]