Telecom Ramblings

The pandemic has been an interesting crucible, showing us how well we can work together as a society but also exposing the digital divide between those who even have that opportunity and those who don’t and never have.  With us today to offer his thoughts on how today’s world is doing when it comes to leveraging technology for all is longtime industry veteran Steve Alexander, SVP and CTO of Ciena.  Steve has been at the forefront of many of the technological developments that have shaped the modern world. [Read more →]

With its first cable system now well established, Hawaiki has unveiled some even bigger followup plans. The subsea cable operator has officially launched the Hawaiki Nui cable system, which will connect New Zealand and Australia with both North America and Southeast Asia. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Brian Horton, VP, Construction Management at LEAF Communications

Wireless construction management firms (CM) are well-versed in the entire process of cellular deployment—from site acquisition to on-air and testing. Their expertise and schedule-driven procedures help to keep any new or modification project on budget and on time. A few benefits of bringing your CM firm in at the start to manage project deployment include precision, accountability and expedited processes. [Read more →]

Here are a few quick news items from midweek worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

One acquisition, one new river crossing, one vendor win, and two partnership moves: [Read more →]

Several interesting announcements to catch up on from around the industry: [Read more →]

Zayo has introduced a new product in North America, and plans to expand its infrastructure in parallel to boost growth. The new offering is called Shielded Internet Access and will be targeted toward the enterprise marketplace, bundling common services into a unified offering. [Read more →]

Cloud Communications has come a long way from the early VoIP days of the late 2000s.  It had already matured technologically prior to the pandemic, and stepped pretty easily into the spotlight a year and a half ago.  There has been plenty of consolidation in the sector, but there is plenty more to go and lots of dynamic players involved.  With us today to talk about today’s cloud communications marketplace is Q Advisors Managing Director Andrew Gaffney.  Andrew has been with Q Advisors for 15 years, advising and aiding the companies and technologies in this sector on their path to growth and on the transactions they pursue along the way. [Read more →]

Ziply’s expansion projects up in the Pacific Northwest aren’t limited to FTTH markets, apparently. Yesterday the operator unveiled a new metro ring in Oregon and added redundant dark fiber up to Seattle as well, continuing the expansion of its regional infrastructure. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Kiki Dikman, CEO of Choice! Energy Management

In 2020, the US managed telecom infrastructure market was estimated to be $80 Billion. With this amount of spend, coordination and integration among company systems is expected. But they usually aren’t. And this makes it impossible for companies to measure the overall costs, value and usage and truly understand what is working and what needs to be improved. In order to protect these investments, as well as build [Read more →]

Four expansion projects in four very different geographies and infrastructure sectors: [Read more →]

Fresh off its inorganic expansion to the northeast into Boston, Lightpath is taking aim in the opposite direction as well. This week the NYC metro area based fiber provider revealed an organic entrance into the Princeton, New Jersey area. [Read more →]

Three expansions and an upgrade across multiple US markets to catch up with: [Read more →]

Five regional expansion projects in five markets across the US worth noting from the start of this week alone: [Read more →]

Underneath just about any next generation infrastructure technology there is a database somewhere.  But with the rise of 5G, IoT, edge computing, and real time decision making, it’s not the giant centralized databases that are necessarily right for the job.  With its integrated data platform, VoltDB has taken a new approach to enabling scalable, low latency, real time decision making for service providers looking to develop services in this new world.  With us today to talk about VoltDB’s technology and why 5G could be a huge opportunity is CEO David Flower. [Read more →]

To finish off the week here is a collection of metro and regional infrastructure news: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Amir Kotler, CEO of Veego

It’s a misnomer that dinosaurs did not adapt and as such did not evolve to be more intelligent. They did! Well not all dinosaurs. [Read more →]

That’s what the WSJ said yesterday. Supposedly the talks for such a deal started back in June, but that the parties have been unable to agree on a price tag — which you may have notice is usually a point of contention when making deals. But does this move make really make sense? [Read more →]

This week has had a bumper crop of interesting items from the international communications marketplace.  Here is another set of quick takes: [Read more →]

Four bits of news from the US marketplace: [Read more →]

Four interesting bits of network news from across the pond: [Read more →]

The ongoing migration of enterprise IT to the cloud is driving a great deal of investment these days, and by most measures it’s just getting started.  Many types of service providers are looking to ride that wave.  One such business is San Diego-based NFINIT, which has been expanding both its range of services and its geographical reach over the last several years.  With us today to talk about NFINIT’s approach to the enterprise marketplace is CEO Phil Kenney.  Phil just joined NFINIT in January of this year. [Read more →]

This week has been rich in infrastructure news that I didn’t get to, so let’s catch up a bit: [Read more →]